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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since 2015, Stout has served as president and CEO of Achieving the Dream (ATD), a network of over 300 community colleges, with the goal of being accessible hubs of learning, credentialing and economic mobility that eliminate inequities in educational and workforce outcomes. Moono, president of SUNY Schenectady County Community College.

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Here’s where enrollment is booming across the South

University Business

Following 24% growth over the past four years, first-year enrollment reached 2,985 this fall, beating its previous high of 2,931 set in 2015, Herald Magazine reports. Overall enrollment increased by 4.8%. University of South Carolina Columbia has recorded two consecutive years of record-breaking total enrollment (38,300).

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700,000 incarcerated students will be Pell-eligible in 2023. Here’s what that could mean for your institution

EAB

Since the program’s creation in 2015, it has enrolled approximately 75 students. What can big consumer brands teach graduate and adult enrollment leaders? 6 elements of an effective graduate enrollment management plan—and why you need to build one. How MBA programs can set a winning messaging strategy.

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Myth Busting: Does Course Sharing Help or Hurt Retention?

Parchment

As many higher ed state systems and institutions explore new ways to improve completion rates that have remained essentially stagnant since 2015, course sharing has emerged as an effective strategy to improve learner success. Learners have greater flexibility to find course options when they need them, so they can graduate faster.

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Myth Busting: Does Course Sharing Help or Hurt Retention?

Parchment

As many higher ed state systems and institutions explore new ways to improve completion rates that have remained essentially stagnant since 2015, course sharing has emerged as an effective strategy to improve learner success. Learners have greater flexibility to find course options when they need them, so they can graduate faster.

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Getting creative: How higher ed is finding solutions to post-pandemic problems

University Business

Applicants are risk-averse to burdensome debt Three in five prospective students cite paying for college as their top concern for attending college, which can create a barrier to enrolling in the first place—and their fears are not unfounded. Over 60% of students from the 2015-16 graduating class are still paying off debt.

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Prepare your graduates for today’s and tomorrow’s tech jobs—here’s how

EAB

While programming Java and JavaScript have remained among the top five most requested programming languages by employers since 2015, Python and SQL have now largely uprooted Java at the top of the list. In January 2015 to January 2016 Java was the top requested programming language skill by employers in San Francisco, with SQL a close second.