Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Associate Level English for Academic Purposes Reading Area Community College (Reading, PA) The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Reading Area Community College (RACC) began in 2012 to strategically reduce credit requirements and accelerate student progression with the goal of boosting enrollment and success rates.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Image: Soaring inflation put a squeeze on college endowments in the 2021–22 fiscal year, driving returns down, according to the annual report from the National Association of College and University Business Officers The report , released today, is a marked change from the booming returns of fiscal year 2021 , when endowments soared.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Image: Facing financial pressures, the King’s College made a recent appeal to donors for $2.6 The deadline to raise the $2.6 So far, the college has raised $178,000, according to an email sent to supporters earlier this week. The volatility extends to the college’s pricing structure. million was Feb.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2023

These variations raise serious questions about how differing approaches play out across agencies and/or programs, how accreditors view their responsibilities, and what that means for equity in student outcomes. Interviews with a broader group of accreditors and a literature review supplemented our engagement with WSCUC and its members.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 18, 2023

Image: Recently released federal higher education data show community college enrollment trends during the first two years of the pandemic differed based on the age of the students, according to a new analysis by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It’s these long-term developments, processes and trends, which take place under the surface, that even the most powerful politicians or institutions must respond to. What were the most important events in higher education in 2022? What if we were to look back at higher education in 2022 a decade or so in the future?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2025

million in 2022. This decline is driven by demographic changes, such as a shrinking college-aged population and evolving perceptions of higher educations value. Additionally, public funding for higher education has declined in many states, shifting more of the financial burden onto students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

The 2022 edition of the European University Association’s Autonomy Scorecard offers a snapshot of the changing relationships between public universities and the governments that fund and regulate them.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

But the university’s longtime president, Glenda Glover, alumni and other supporters of the Nashville institution have argued against a proposal that would place the institution under the oversight of the Tennessee Board of Regents, the governing board for 37 technical and community colleges in the state. million, from $5.2

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The agreements raised questions, as the Times put it, “about whether promoting gambling on campus—especially to people who are at an age when they are vulnerable to developing gambling disorders—fits the mission of higher education.” Their contracts have raised a number of ethical and policy flags.

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University Business

OCTOBER 4, 2024

At Augusta, Mackinnon held an “expanded provost’s position” over three and a half years in which he helped develop and implement the public research university’s strategic plan and oversaw its success and belonging programs, enrollment and other metrics, according to a press release.

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EAB

AUGUST 23, 2023

Review these 7 aspects of your basic needs strategy before the semester begins Community colleges play a vital role in higher education, offering affordable and accessible pathways to academic and professional success. Collaborations with local food banks, grocery stores, and community organizations can help sustain these programs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

“You can create a net-zero campus pretty easily by just shutting it down,” quips Jay Antle, executive director of the Center for Sustainability and a history professor at Johnson County Community College, in Kansas. ” Good and green, but not for the right reasons.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2023

” According to information from the university, Graduate College of Social Work enrollment grew from 405 in 2015 to 544 in 2022. With this stance, we raised awareness of calls for abolition within the profession, and we also caused some controversy.

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Parchment

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And so they need to be at the table for federal and state policy conversations as the folks that are often tasked to implement those policies to kind of ground truth and make sure that what is developed makes sense, moves objectives forward in a way that is thoughtful and manageable for the field. The students that are, yeah, it’s.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I’ll be developing and calling out tags I use for these themes so that you can go to an archive page on each one. My first thought after reading it was, “If I were designing the Cal State system in 2022, starting with a blank sheet of paper, this paper would be one decent blueprint to start from.” The context of the paper.

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Edu Alliance Journal

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

September 6, 2022 by Dean Hoke – The percentage of students without a post-secondary degree in the United States has been a widespread concern for decades. This topic has been of interest to me for over 50 years because I am one of those who dropped out of college. The Harsh Facts on College Dropouts. US Labor Market.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

Insights from the Council of Graduate Schools Report The Council of Graduate Schools’ “Graduate Enrollment and Degrees: 2012 to 2022” report presents a significant challenge for institutions aiming to diversify and strengthen their graduate programs. The report outlines a 6.9%

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

Bill Hwang, a trader who earned billions on Wall Street, pumped several million into the college before his 2022 arrest on fraud charges. Now another billionaire, Peter Chung, may hold the key to the fate of the King’s College. As fundraising fell far short of the goal , Chung stepped in with a $2 million loan.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

The Holocaust Education Initiative, run by UK professors and funded by a grant from the Jewish Heritage Fund, aims to prepare teachers to meet state standards of a 2018 law requiring Holocaust education at Kentucky public schools. Kentucky is no exception. Teachers who participate receive a $250 stipend. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 2, 2023

Make it possible for instructors to provide more individualized feedback and to participate in more student engagement activities (like student-faculty lunches or co-curricular activities), by, for example, shifting from 3 to 4 credit hour classes and giving faculty access to modest student engagement funds.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The duo share their insights on 2023, discuss the unexpected developments, and what to prepare for with the higher education predictions for 2024. The federal government’s COVID assistance played a critical role in temporarily sustaining institutions, particularly smaller colleges, which otherwise faced the risk of closure.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Earlier this month, officials at Lewis-Clark State College, a public institution in Idaho, removed half a dozen artworks from an exhibition due to concerns that display of the works, which related to abortion and reproductive health, violated the state’s No Public Funds for Abortion Act. Which is exactly what I did last year.

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