Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy. It collects, analyzes, and reports comprehensive performance data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

From a sample of over 560,000 first year, first time community college students and over 32,000 instructors in Texas between 2013 and 2020, researchers found that 77% of white students experienced a racial match. However, a recent working paper has shown that students of color are far less likely to experience these advantages.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Community college students assigned to corequisite mathematic courses instead of remedial courses not only graduate faster, but earn higher wages. That’s the findings of a study that has been tracking 900 community college students since 2013.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. I care more than just graduation at community college.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Tracking public opinion about higher education can be a confounding experience. ” A new public opinion survey released Friday leaves relatively little doubt about the trend line on at least one key issue: the perceived value of getting a four-year college degree.

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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Background Higher education faculty are expected to assess their teaching practices to better meet the needs of college students, including students from underrepresented populations. This is even more important as colleges explore how to make education more accessible and equitable. 2019; Lin et al.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Title: President, Cuyahoga Community College Cuyahoga Community College is the largest and oldest community college in Ohio, and Dr. Jerry Sue Thornton has served as president since 1992. Prior to Cuyahoga, Thornton was president of Lakewood Community College in Minnesota. and a Ph.D.

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University Business

JUNE 27, 2024

Student optimism toward higher education shines through the latest retention report from The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. First-year persistence and retention are strong early indicators for students staying enrolled throughout their program of study and eventually completing college,” Shapiro noted.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

The University of Phoenix has received more GI Bill funding than any other higher education institution, USA Today reported Wednesday. Between 2013 and 2021, the Department of Veterans Affairs gave the for-profit institution $1.6 billion in funds for students who enrolled in online or in-person classes.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

” According to his university biography, Joeckel’s scholarship is about issues of importance to Christian higher education (and others). Lewis Phenomenon: Christianity and the Public Sphere (2013) and Golden Notes , a novel (2016). He “is the author of The C.S.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

12 December · Episode 185 AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education 49 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton McNaughton and Reichman cover the processes and conclusions of the AAUP report, emphasizing the detrimental effects on academic governance, academic freedom, and the well-being of faculty and students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

The path from college presidency to leadership of a major cultural institution seems increasingly well trodden. And what does it tell us about leadership today, both for these prominent cultural institutions and for higher education? Why Are Cultural Institutions Choosing College Presidents? Why is that?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

The bill states that public colleges and universities with residence halls open during breaks must offer free housing during intersessions to students who were receiving support through the state’s foster care system at age 18. “Everyone knows education is the ticket to independence and success.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The 2012–13 academic year presented an opportunity of a lifetime for me as an American Council on Education Fellow (#administratorwannabe #becarefulwhatyouwishfor)—a year to study higher education without the burden of a day job (a sabbatical for administrators). 21, 2022).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 5, 2023

American University Kyiv, the result of a partnership with Arizona State University and Cintana Education —a private subsidiary of ASU that helps manage international campuses—would be the first institution in Ukraine developed in line with U.S. higher education accreditation standards. AUK wasn’t the only U.S.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

14 November · Episode 181 Tough Times Ahead for Higher Education Enrollment 42 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Dive into the complexities of higher education enrollment–navigate through its current challenges, and uncover strategies for the tough times ahead.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The agreements raised questions, as the Times put it, “about whether promoting gambling on campus—especially to people who are at an age when they are vulnerable to developing gambling disorders—fits the mission of higher education.” His email address is jthelin@uky.edu.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In 2013, Futurist Bryan Alexander aptly talked about peak college enrollment in the United States. And over the last decade or so, higher education enrollment has declined in almost every state. People can watch the College Meltdown in real time at thelayoff.com. Many are not. Who's Next?

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University Business

APRIL 11, 2023

If your college or university is in Wyoming, you might be safe—or at least a little safer— from education data breaches. Some 32 million records have been compromised in nearly 2,700 education data breaches over the last two decades. Wyoming is the only state not to report a campus data breach. million records affected.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

degrees in English, in the years when I’ve managed to work outside of higher education institutions, I’ve done just fine for myself, money-wise that is. Working in higher ed institutions as a non-tenureable instructor of various stripes was a bit of a drag on the old income. Speaking as someone with not one (B.A.),

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

But the university’s longtime president, Glenda Glover, alumni and other supporters of the Nashville institution have argued against a proposal that would place the institution under the oversight of the Tennessee Board of Regents, the governing board for 37 technical and community colleges in the state.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 24, 2023

“For us as higher education institutions to adapt to the students we have today and not the students we were in prior decades. Our understanding of the college experience has to adapt to the students entering our campuses now that are coming with radically different lived experiences than we had. What is lifeload?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

As tensions rise in an increasingly polarized national debate around higher ed, the UNC system appears to be at a crossroads. “I’m just glad I’m retired,” said Thorp, who left his final higher education job, as provost at Washington University in St. Louis, in 2019.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 12, 2019

As part of the role, postgraduate peer tutors can work towards their Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), in a similar way to the Undergraduate Certificate in Veterinary Medical Education. Higher Education, 71(2), 195-208. link] Bozalek, V., Alperstein, M., & Mitchell, V.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JANUARY 29, 2024

Student Attrition, Learning, and Program Evaluation (1960s and 1970s): In the 1960s and 1970s, the call for co-curricular evaluation at the higher education level was received, with federal grants funding program evaluation and student attrition research. Empirically exploring higher education cultures of assessment.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 12, 2017

CC0 [Pexels] As academics, I believe that we have a responsibility to create opportunities for equitable access to higher education. Funding sustainability Continuity of funding is vital to ensure a sustainable impact on education provision in LMICs. Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One of the biggest challenges students face is determining their return on investment for obtaining a college degree. Since leaving the Department of Education, Michael has found that college is still worth the investment, providing graduates with more opportunities, on average, than non-college grads.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The Chamber of Commerce is working on creating an alternative model to get employers to sidestep higher education. Accreditors are not held accountable for internal effectiveness because the Higher Education Act doesn’t fully allow the Department of Education to make any substantial judgments on the efficacy of accreditors.

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Parchment

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

from campus labs, they were pulling global education from, you know, a course code that we would put on the course. But in 2013, whenever I started here, I started looking at that transcript and we began to wonder, what would happen if we combined the academic and the co -curricular transcript together? What did I really like?

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Parchment

DECEMBER 12, 2023

So we play and our accreditation as well as our national quality standards play an important role in filling this hole in state policy as specifically addressing what you should be doing with students if you are offering these programs as well as another kind of oversight area is regional accreditors for institutions of higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Gavin Newsom Undocumented students in California’s higher education system may soon be able to get a job in California’s public universities and colleges. California would become the first state in the nation to employ undocumented college students without legal work permits, pending a signature from Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2023

Tom Harnisch, vice president for government relations at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, said concerns over a potential economic downturn and skepticism of higher education's value for students and state economies alike could make it more difficult for higher ed institutions to make their case to lawmakers.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

The higher education sector seems fraught for every employee these days—faculty, staff and administrators alike. Blog: Just Explain It to Me! Many people feel burned out and demoralized and want to give up on their institution. Leaving your institution can be a challenging prospect. It’s like breaking up in a relationship.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education. Diploma Mills: How For-profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers, and the American Dream. Is College Worth It?: A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education. Bold Type Books.

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Academic Librarian

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In 2013 Congress lowered the federal number of deaths required: “the term ‘mass killings’ means 3 or more killings in a single incident.” According to this Wikipedia list of attacks related to post-secondary schools, there have been 6 such attacks this year, leaving 17 people dead (including the 10 dead at Umpqua Community College in Oregon).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

But, when higher education experts were asked to reflect on 2024, each described a year loaded with exceptional pressure and stress. But they also agree that everyone involved at an institution, from board of trustee members to the students, have a role to play and the power to protect educational goals and aspirations.

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