Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Day three of the 2023 Dream Conference in Chicago kicked off with a heightened focus on building partnerships that strengthen students and fortify the community workforce. The Dream conference is hosted annually by Achieving the Dream (ATD), a reform network of over 300 community colleges working to equitize higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

Candace Byrd-Vinson, Calhoun Community College head women's basketball coach, is the school’s first African American female basketball coach, FOX 54 reported. Hubbard High School, leading Hubbard to a Class 1A State Championship in 2017. She then coached at East Lawrence High School and R.A. I love the sport.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

More than 20 inmates from the Utah Department of Corrections recently graduated from Salt Lake Community College (SLCC). The students – 23 received a certificate of completion or associate's degree – took classes through SLCC's Prison Education Program – which was founded in 2017 and offers job placement after their sentences end.

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University Business

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The number of graduates from the state’s community colleges has seen a marked increase, according to data released Wednesday by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Overall, the number of Colorado college students earning credentials within six years is holding steady. percent completed. percent completed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Braylin Laster Braylin Laster has been appointed associate vice president for institutional advancement and resource development at Southwest Tennessee Community College in Memphis. Laster holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Lane College in 2017 and an MBA from Bethel University in McKenzie, Tennessee.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The report found that students who started college for the first time in 2018 had a six-year credential completion rate of 61.1 percentage-point increase over those who started in 2017. percent—a 0.5-percentage-point

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

That’s according to the latest report from the ACT , which analyzed high school GPAs, ACT test scores, and first-year grades in students from 2017 to 2021. Before the pandemic, in 2017, a student who had a 2.5 GPA in college. Following the onset of COVID, the predictive power of the HSGPA has decreased.” In 2020 and 2021, a 2.5

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 2, 2025

Seeking an enrollment Hail Mary, small colleges look to athletics. Trends in college pricing and student aid 2024. The College Board. Understanding loan aversion in education: Evidence from high school seniors, community college students, and adults. The racial wealth gap, financial aid, and college access.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The report showed that first to second year college persistence rates also trended upward from class of 2020 to class of 2021, but a gap between the graduates of high minority high schools and low minority high schools continued. and those from low minority schools at 48.5%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2023

SHEEO based its analysis on national and state data from the 2017-18 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, Administrative Collection. Keller also thought that the improved Pell access could also increase enrollment at community colleges, which has been damaged by the pandemic. “If all covered by your Pell Grant.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

He wasn’t surrounded by college graduates or even friends who were planning to enroll. However, he was curious about some aspects of science and engineering, so he decided he’d try community college. Fast forward to 2023. Childs is an award-winning Ph.D. He said none of his 100 students dropped his physics classes.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Image: Campus and faculty leaders in the California Community College system are eagerly anticipating the selection of a new chancellor this week. Meanwhile, the system, like community colleges across the country, experienced significant enrollment declines during the pandemic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 14, 2023

ACE’s study, performed approximately every five years since 1986, surveyed over 1,000 college presidents and chancellors about their experiences and backgrounds during 2022. We need to move away from the elitism of sectors, i.e. assuming a qualified candidate from a community college can’t work at a four-year institution,” she wrote.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

For most of its 50-year history, the Pell Grant has not covered summer classes, with two brief exceptions: 2009-2011 and 2017 to the present. What we are finding here is pretty large,” said Liu, equivalent to hundreds of additional students staying in school and earning degrees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

Students from underrepresented backgrounds face considerable barriers when it comes to completing a community college program. But Dougherty Family College (DFC), a two-year associate degree program at the University of St. DFC has graduated an average of 56% of its students since its formation in 2017.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The California Community Colleges system Board of Governors selected Sonya Christian as the new chancellor to lead the 116-college system, according to an announcement Thursday. ” Ad keywords: communitycolleges Editorial Tags: Community College Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2024

Mobility report cards: The role of colleges in intergenerational mobility. Seeking an enrollment Hail Mary, small colleges look to athletics. Trends in college pricing and student aid 2023. Understanding loan aversion in education: Evidence from high school seniors, community college students, and adults.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2024

Dear Black women in higher education, 2023 should have been a wake-up call to our community, yet the red flags persist. Montague of Volunteer State Community College, was a signal to all other Black women in higher education. Patterson Research Institute at the United Negro College Fund. Bambara, T. The Salt Eaters.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

She was crucial to building smooth transfer pathways from CUNY’s community colleges to John Jay. From its inception, Macaulay Honors College only accepted applications from high school seniors and has not accepted transfer students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 19, 2023

He wasn’t surrounded by college graduates or even friends who were planning to enroll. However, he was curious about some aspects of science and engineering, so he decided he’d try community college. Fast forward to 2023. Childs is an award-winning Ph.D. He said none of his 100 students dropped his physics classes.

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The Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

R1, community college) and size, finding like-minded peers and resources to develop, enact, and reflect upon evidence-based instructional practices may be difficult. mathematics), facilitating change is challenging because it disrupts cultural norms (hooks, 1994; Gehrke & Kezar, 2017). link] Gehrke, S., & & Kezar, A.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 17, 2024

A Furman University professor who administrators have been investigating for his involvement in the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville has been fired, according to WSPA, a CBS affiliate in South Carolina.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Many students start community college with the hope of getting an associate degree and then transferring to a four-year institution, such as a California State University or University of California campus. But a state audit, released today , found that the vast majority of these students never accomplish their goal.

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Higher education enrollment at Northeastern schools has collectively fallen into a downward spiral since at least 2017, a phenomenon that has plagued every region since the pandemic, according to National Student Clearinghouse Research Center data. Vermont’s public four-year institutions in fall 2022; however, hit a whopping 12.2%

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 31, 2024

Rates of post-traumatic stress disorder among college students more than doubled from 2017 to 2022, jumping from 3.4 percent to 7.5 percent, according to new research encompassing five years of data from the

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Robert Kelchen

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In this post, I took a look at the percentage change in total expenditures over each of the last four years with data (2017-18 through 2020-21) for degree-granting public and private nonprofit institutions. Characteristic 2020-21 2019-20 2018-19 2017-18 Median change (pct) -1.2 These values are not adjusted for inflation.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

The last two times that I taught the course ( spring 2020 and fall 2017 ), I shared my reading list for the class on this blog. Mobility report cards: The role of colleges in intergenerational mobility. Trends in college pricing and student aid 2021. The College Board. Free college. Friedman, J. Working paper.

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Robert Kelchen

JUNE 15, 2023

The last three times that I taught the course ( spring 2022 , spring 2020 , and fall 2017 ), I shared my reading list for the class on this blog. Mobility report cards: The role of colleges in intergenerational mobility. Mapping community college finance systems to develop equitable and effective finance policy.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

An assistant professor of counseling psychology has left Austin Peay State University after antifascists accused him online of being a white supremacist who attended the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Va. 20, university president Mike Licari announced last week in a message to the Tennessee campus community.

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MAY 2, 2024

billion in loans for students who attended any Art Institute campus from 2004 to 2017. The Education Department will wipe out $6.1 The relief comes through the borrower defense to repayment program, which allows students who were misled or defrauded by their institution to seek relief.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Germanna Community College president Janet Gullickson has been charged with driving under the influence and reckless driving and was arrested in the incident earlier this month, according to reporting from The Culpeper-Star Exponent. Gullickson has led the community college in Virginia since 2017.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Freshman enrollment was up across all higher education sectors, with the greatest growth coming from community colleges, which gained 42,000 first-year students since last fall, an increase of 6.1 Some sectors saw marginal increases; enrollment at community colleges, for instance, grew by 0.4 and 2 percent. and 2 percent.

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University Business

MAY 23, 2023

But the rate at which women predominate higher ed may be partly due to the declining rate of men attending college and succeeding. While Fall enrollment among men and women has mostly declined between 2017 and 2022, women have weathered the storm far better across non-profit and for-profit institutions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2024

Jacob Remes, a member of the organizing committee for the new union, Contract Faculty United, said the effort began in 2017. Full-time, non-tenure-track faculty members at New York University have unionized, creating the largest bargaining unit of such employees at a private U.S. higher education institution.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

She has been a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2017. London, UK: Nicholas Brealey Publishing. Paula Smith Dr Paula Smith is Deputy Programme Director for the MSc in Critical Care. Feb 20, 2025

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Many students worry about succeeding in gateway college-level mathematics courses needed to enter most community college degree and certificate programs. Cuyahoga Community College’s psychology department, for example, redesigned its General Psychology course using OER-based adaptive courseware.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Here is what it looks like: Full+Part-Time 2020 38,510 2019 40,884 2018 41,479 2017 41,490 2016 41,993 2015 42,782 2014 43,610 2013 44,677 2012 67,074 Not sure why there was such a significant drop between 2013 and 2012. The data available spans from 2012 to 2020. Probably some change in how library staff are counted.

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