Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 30, 2024

Morris, a former reporter for Diverse, said that postsecondary institutions should partner with local industry leaders to assess their needs and discover which jobs will be most plentiful in the future to better align programs and build pathways into good jobs. The report finds that good jobs in the U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Community colleges across the country are struggling to recruit and hire new people after losing faculty and staff members in droves during the pandemic. College leaders report staffing losses at all levels, including IT workers, student success professionals, dining hall workers and executive leaders, she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

population is Latinx, and, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Latinx workers made up 66% of the workforce in 2021. This year, Excelencia also examined three specific areas of industry projected to grow by roughly 10% by 2031: STEM (statistics, technology, engineering and mathematics), healthcare, and educational professions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Image: Against the backdrop of headlines blaring news about declining community college enrollments, one bright spot has emerged: community college students, faculty and administrators are broadly aligned in their enthusiasm for the digital transformation that has occurred at their institutions since the start of the pandemic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

In 2021, people officially got fed up with work. Colleges who offer courses tied to employer needs and at affordable costs will capitalize on the high demand and in turn help the workforce and economy make a comeback.” with over 47 million people quitting their jobs—23% of the workforce.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

Image: The Biden administration’s $90 billion plan to provide free community college likely won’t make it through Congress, but supporters of the effort say the request shows it’s a priority for the administration and helps to continue the national conversation about the policy. percent decline in enrollment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 27, 2023

After two years of COVID-19-related disruptions, the percentage of first-time college students sticking with school has returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC). That’s what worries me and many community college leaders the most.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Long Beach College Promise is another Latino-serving program in which students are tracked from the K-12 system (the Long Beach Unified School District), through community college, and into CSULB to make sure students are fully supported through all the educational pathways. Morishita, interim president at CSULA. Dr. Janine E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The federal government projects that more than 203,000 new registered nurse (RN) positions will be created each year from 2021 to 2031, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). Information was not provided about new nursing hire recruitment. But a November 2022 article in U.S.

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AIFS Abroad

MARCH 24, 2021

Last Updated on November 8, 2021 by Cat Rogliano. For more than 35 years, AIFS and numerous California community colleges have partnered to teach young people from diverse backgrounds to understand the qualities, values and differences of other cultures. This includes community college, Bachelor’s and Master’s courses of study.

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EAB

JANUARY 13, 2023

Modern Student Experience Diagnostic for Community Colleges. Modern student expectations are everchanging—can your community college keep up? Community college student demographics are shifting, nontraditional is the new norm, mental health is in crisis, and learning flexibility is a growing demand.

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University Business

AUGUST 28, 2024

Here are some other examples: Kansas State University A Kansas State task force secured a grant in 2021 to purchase a digital credentialing system capable of aligning with existing university technologies.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 5, 2023

The Virginia State Board for Community Colleges hired a new chancellor to head the 23-college system, according to a press release Wednesday. He currently serves as president of campuses and executive vice chancellor for student experience and workforce development at Pima Community College in Arizona.

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Clark Nesxen

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As current President of the Virginia Chapter ( VANOMA ), I wanted to use this post as an opportunity to communicate why this organization is important to me and our industry. As we celebrate Black History Month, I thought it would be important to share with everyone the work of the National Organization of Minority Architects.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

Those criteria include a stipulation that the harm caused by the industry in question should clearly outweigh any “negative consequences” of divestment—including “censorship of competing views within the University.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

Image: Microcredentials —quality, verifiable, bite-size, low-priced, nondegree online offerings targeted to specific industries—have boomed in recent years in response to demand from employers and would-be workers alike for additional options that can better prepare learners for the workforce. Others see synergistic opportunities.

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University Business

MARCH 24, 2025

More from UB: Succession planning: How to find a community college president The University of the Pacific is just one of a rising number of organizations that are using enterprise browsers to address modern IT challenges. A Wiley survey found that 96 percent of instructors suspect cheating in the past year, up from 72 percent in 2021.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In one 2021 Student Voice survey , nearly half of students couldn’t name a single mentor, even one they’d found on their own. Image: Students benefit from mentors, but structured mentorship isn’t part of many academic programs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 18, 2023

Over all, we found that the number of assistant professors increased in 101 of 154 academic disciplines between 2011 and 2021. percent between 2011 and 2021. liberal arts colleges, community colleges and master’s-level institutions) is necessary to understand the full picture of academic hiring.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

“You have to know who those contacts are, and if you don’t have them because you’re not working in the industry regularly, it takes a lot of time to secure the involvement of those people,” said Kinzie, who noted that the survey’s results largely mirror the results of the National Survey of Student Engagement.

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University Business

APRIL 3, 2024

School expenditures on existing infrastructure grew 26% since last year and 33% since 2021, the report found. Staffing shortages will possibly increase in the coming years, as an estimated 40% of current building industry workers will retire by 2030, according to the National Center for Construction Education and Research.

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Parchment

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In this episode, we speak with Melanie Booth, Executive Director of the Higher Learning Commission’s Credential Lab, and Ian Roark, Vice Chancellor of Workforce Development & Innovation at Pima Community College, to discuss the policy and practice of making CPL a reality for different forms of credentials.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Image: New data from the Lumina Foundation on college degree or credential attainment rates for U.S. The national share of working-age Americans who hold college degrees increased across racial and ethnic groups and rose in all states between 2019 and 2021. adults show both good and bad news. For example, Washington, D.C.,

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Awardees are chosen from among the colleges, universities, and individuals that use Navigate , EAB’s student success management system, or Starfish , the student success platform EAB acquired in 2021. Congratulations to our 2022 winners: Technology Pioneer Award: Bakersfield College. Sierra College. Mercy College.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

” In order to make greater strides towards accelerating change in this space, we need to broaden the conversation about transfer and credit mobility to better encompass Learning Mobility on a global scale.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Busteed joined us in 2021 for our Presidential Experience Lab , EAB’s signature event for college and university presidents to take inspiration from out-of-industry exemplars to consider thought-provoking concepts, lessons and trends to help shape their leadership e­fforts and institutional strategy.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The cost of college has stopped rising faster than inflation for the first time since the 1980s. percent over 2021. Students are completing college on time at higher rates nationally at two- and four-year institutions. ” Community colleges and for-profits have borne well over 90 percent of the drop.

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Edu Alliance Journal

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Association, located in France, conducted a study in 2021 of UNESCO mobility data which reported 5.6 The results of the 2014 survey call for a continuing need for international business education in the US, with increased emphasis on intercultural communication, foreign language skills, and international experience. Nearly 50% of U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Abundant nomenclature aside, all parties appear eager to work together to deliver or pursue quality, verifiable, bite-size, low-priced, nondegree online offerings targeted to specific industries. More than two-thirds (68 percent) of employers want to be approached by a college to collaborate on such initiatives.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

Despite these constraints, UoPeople’s enrollment has swelled from over 44,000 students in 2021 to more than 126,000 students in 2023—a 186 percent increase over a two-year period. UoPeople’s first accreditation visit was in 2021, after which it was granted candidacy for accreditation. ’” LeBlanc said.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2025

Local Bonds: Community colleges and public systems in states like California and Texas are leveraging general obligation bonds approved by local voters to fund long-term renovations and new construction. So here are people that are moguls of the music industry coming back and like giving back to USC. Brent Miller: Sure.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

Testimony at the March 9 hearing on Twitter accused the Election Integrity Partnership of being the “seed of the censorship industrial complex.” “The rhetoric is similar to that employed in support of attempts to reframe the events of January 6, 2021, and to counter the findings of the U.S.

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University Business

JULY 25, 2024

Hired Jim Lucchese, Berklee College of Music (Mass.) Jim Lucchese Jim Lucchese , a 20-year music industry executive who’s known as an artist advocate, will step up as Berklee’s fifth president on Jan. Pharr, Pitt Community College (N.C.) Thomas, Morehouse College (Ga.) Pharr Maria A. Thomas David A.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Image: One organization is creating space at the tech industry’s table for undergraduates by providing short-term work experiences to equip them for summer internships and beyond. Employment in science, technology, engineering and math has grown over the years, with about 24 percent of the U.S.’s

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University Business

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In May of 2021, the University of California system terminated the requirement for SAT and ACT scores in their application process. Another approach some take in dealing with students who are traditionally underqualified, is pushing them towards a community college.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As those of us in higher education know well, colleges and universities are a public good vital to our communities and our democracy. In Florida, industry, technology, business and the arts from the Gulf Coast to the Space Coast all rely on higher education to remain globally competitive, as they have for decades.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 17, 2023

Image: When David Greene became president of Colby College in 2014, the city of Waterville, where the Maine institution is located, was struggling financially. The Lockwood Hotel, which opened in March 2021, is also part of the revitalization plan). The city’s economy had stagnated.

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