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How to beat the enrollment cliff: Act like Yamaha

University Business

However, one private liberal arts school has transformed its enrollment strategy by bucking its traditional paradigm. “We were built as a single product institution that only knew how to recruit freshmen,” says Melik Khoury, president of Unity Environmental University since 2016.

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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Central Oregon Community College (COCC) opened its current housing facility, Wickiup Hall, in 2016. Impact “As of 2020, students who live on campus, their [three-year] graduation rate is 4% higher than the students who do not live on campus,” says Andrew Morong, dean of enrollment management at CMCC.

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It may be time to rethink the college minor (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

He is lead author of How College Affects Students: 21st Century Evidence that Higher Education Works, Volume 3 (Wiley, 2016); has published more than 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals; and has received over $20 million in grant funding. Emily Creamer is a postdoctoral scholar at Ohio State University.

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University of Dayton, Sinclair CC share students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In 2016, University of Dayton and Sinclair established the UD Sinclair Academy —an agreement between the two colleges to allow undergraduates at Sinclair to transfer directly to Dayton. If your student success program has a unique feature or twist that you believe is worth modeling, we’d like to know about it.

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Field of study not key to new academic program success

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Digging Into the Data Using federal education data, Lightcast researchers found growth at 2,274 out of 8,007 new programs studied from 2016–17 through 2021, for a success rate of 28.4 percent for institutions with 5,001 or more graduates in 2016. It also noted a success rate of 36.4

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Dual enrollment can be costly for community colleges

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The state will cover community college tuition for up to five dual-enrollment courses per high school student. Dual enrollment has similarly more than doubled at Compton College in California since 2016. These students were disproportionately students of color and now make up more than a third of the college’s enrollment.

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How to uncover hidden threats in past enrollment trends

EAB

Even leaders not immersed in the day-to-day realities of enrollment management are well aware of the coming contraction. But fewer leaders are familiar with how the share of these potential students who will enroll is changing— college-going rates. However, since 2016, demographics have actually grown.