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College Transfer Enrollment Grew for Third Consecutive Year

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is three straight years of transfer growth for both Black and Hispanic students and transfer enrollment for both groups have been above 2020 levels since 2022. The data also shows more transfers into community colleges and shorter-term programs and certificates. The fall 2022 transfer cohort had an 83.6%

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Oakton Community College Renamed to Oakton College, Plans to Remain a Community College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Oakton Community College has changed its name to Oakton College. The school will remain a community college and offer associate degrees, certificates, and adult and continuing education programs, including the State of Illinois High School Diploma and English as a Second Language programs.

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Report Shows Increases in Retention and Persistence

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The rate of college freshmen returning for a second year is at a decade high. A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center noted that more than 76% of students who started college in the fall of 2022 returned for their second year. for the 2022 cohort , and for Hispanic males , it increased from 50.6%

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Dual Enrollment, Multiple Benefits

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

higher education institutions, fall 2022 dual enrollment at two-year colleges grew by 11.5%. That boost helped recover some of the losses experienced by community colleges during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. But dual enrollment doesn’t just offer larger enrollment numbers.

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Hochul Proposes Nearly $7.5B for Higher Ed in FY24

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

billion in higher ed spending—a 13% increase from this year’s spending and a 22% increase from the 2022 budget proposed by her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo. Funding for community colleges will match the fiscal year 2022 level at $689 million despite drops in enrollment.

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Community college can be improved by (re)targeting this roadblock

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Community colleges must recommit to reforming developmental education courses, or dev-ed, to ensure K12 students hampered by the pandemic won’t crash out of the postsecondary track, declares a new report from FutureEd, a public policy think tank at Georgetown University.

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How Northampton Community College Simplified Compliance Reporting with Automated Data Preparation

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How Northampton Community College Simplified Compliance Reporting with Automated Data Preparation Northampton’s New Process with Edify Saves Valuable Staff Time About Northampton Community College is a public two-year college serving 20,000+ students across three campuses in Pennsylvania. Browning, Ph.D.,