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Undergraduate enrollment climbs for first time since the pandemic, despite freshmen drop-off

University Business

above 2021, according to preliminary data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Impressive enrollment rates at community colleges, undergraduate certificates and private for-profit universities (which experienced a 6.4% Undergraduate enrollment this fall has increased for the first time since the pandemic, 2.1%

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How Post University’s Career Readiness Model Can Help Not-For-Profit Universities and Graduates: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 172 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Camille Dumont

The Change Leader, Inc.

In this podcast episode, Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with Director Camille Dumont of the Center for Career and Professional Development (CCPD) about how she aligned career services with academia at Post University to better prepare students for the workforce. Drumm McNaughton 14:44 Which makes perfect sense.

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Report: U of Arkansas system may buy University of Phoenix

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: The University of Arkansas System is considering a transaction in which it would transform the for-profit University of Phoenix into an independent nonprofit affiliate, spokespeople for both institutions have confirmed. “Being private equity owned, you’re always having that conversation,” Smiley said.

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Where are the future students in Myanmar?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In March, according to media coverage , 160,000 high school students took the examinations needed to enter a university—fewer than a fifth of the 910,000 who took them in 2019, the last year before COVID-19 and when Myanmar had a civilian government.

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Predatory Colleges, Converted To Non-Profit, Are Failing (David Halperin, Republic Report)

Higher Education Inquirer

. — Last month, the Department of Education took another step to hold accountable the non-profit Center for Excellence in Higher Education, whose schools, the largest of which was Independence University, shut down in 2021.