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The college closings of 2024—and what lies beyond

University Business

The only public university on this list, enrollment at Maritime Academy has fallen by 31% since the 2016-17 academic year, Cal Matters reports. The system will downsize to 22 universities. The two CSU System campuses will be fully integrated by fall 2026 , and Maritime Academy will be renamed Cal Poly, Solano Campus.

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Is this the first college closing announced in 2025?

University Business

The only public university on this list, enrollment at Maritime Academy has fallen by 31% since the 2016-17 academic year, Cal Matters reports. The system will downsize to 22 universities. The two CSU System campuses will be fully integrated by fall 2026 , and Maritime Academy will be renamed Cal Poly, Solano Campus.

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These are the top 10 colleges for cybersecurity education

University Business

Accredited by the Department of Homeland Security, the university utilizes technology that enables students to take a game-like approach to learn where they’re presented with simulations of cyberattacks and it’s up to them to solve them. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (3). George Washington University (4).

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Iowa Wesleyan University announces closure

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Iowa Wesleyan University is closing, citing rising costs, shifting enrollment trends, declining fundraising and the governor’s rejection of a proposal for federal COVID-19 relief funds. Burlington College closed in 2016 , largely due to financial issues. ” in an incident captured on video.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since 2016, Latino graduation rates have increased by 16%, while the rate for all students increased 5%. “We Edward’s University St. Edward’s University, a private university in Austin, Texas, enrolls 2,766 undergraduate students, 51% of whom are Latino and 40% are Pell Grant recipients.

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Unions organizing in states that lack collective bargaining

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Unions for Private University Grad Students Under federal law, private university employees can unionize—except, generally, tenured and tenure-track faculty, following a 1980 U.S. But Matthew Thomas, a Duke University Ph.D. ” “We become a union by acting like one,” she said.

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Teaching and research? Yes, but universities have another important job

SRHE

The “enemies of the people” assault on the judiciary by the tabloid press in November 2016 over, bizarrely, a legal determination that parliament needed to vote to trigger the process of leaving the EU, showed how a populist frenzy might be worked up.