Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This is the second consecutive year of undergraduate growth and third straight year of growth for community colleges. The freshmen decline] is a reversal of last year’s growth, taking the size of the freshman class back to pre-2022 levels,” said Shapiro, noting the data doesn’t show a clear cause for the decline. Dr. Brian R.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

colleges and universities rose by 1.2%, a minor change where the number of enrollees went from 15,072,249 to 15,248,077. Among the years captured in the report, 2019 to 2022 all faced varying rates of decline, with Fall 2021 being the worst (-3.4%). "We decrease in 2022 and positive growth for the years before.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2024

Community colleges are in dire need of support as more reports convey just how few of their students are succeeding. Some colleges have succeeded in employing mentorship opportunities and finding innovative ways to support their students financially to help boost retention rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

CPE’s 2024 Higher Education Matters Progress Report shows the graduation rate for URM in the Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) increased 15 percentage points from the 2016-17 academic year to the 2022-23 academic year. Campuses are investing resources into financial aid and emergency support services.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Based on data gathered, we increased support services such as Ram Pantry, counseling, technology availability, and academic advising,” he continues. As of Fall 2022, Latino students comprise 50.64% of all full-time undergraduates and 49.68% of all part-time undergraduates. Morishita, interim president at CSULA.

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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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University Business

JUNE 21, 2024

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. Six other states have replicated this model.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As vital as institutions’ support services are to cultivating student belonging, many miss the mark , especially among Black students and other persons of color. Thanks in part to feeling a lack of belonging, Black students have lower six-year college completion rates , according to the Lumina Foundation.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education. She was also 25 years old and an undocumented immigrant from Peru.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 23, 2022

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? Students are completing college on time at higher rates nationally at two- and four-year institutions. During the pandemic, the median college received $13.2

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 25, 2023

Image: Factors ranging from financial stress to participation in extracurriculars can influence whether a student receiving services at their university’s counseling center will voluntarily withdraw from the institution, according to new research from Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Collegiate Mental Health.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Universities, once struggling to keep up with the surge in demand for counseling during the pandemic, have since scaled up their support services thanks to an outpouring of financial help from various nonprofits , donors, state legislatures and the federal government.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

While the analysis accounts for geographic differences in the cost of living between rural and urban areas, it generally defines this category as those that pay a minimum of $43,000 for workers aged 25–44 and $55,000 for workers aged 45–64 in 2022 U.S. The rural workforce comprises 13% of all U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Image: When a college president resigns or retires, the institution’s governing board usually announces the steps it will take to replace the outgoing leader. The Board of Trustees of Parkland College followed that script in 2019 when Thomas Ramage told board members he planned to retire in 2022. I stayed here.”

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College Forward

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Through a collaboration with national nonprofit College Possible , the community college district will bring evidence-based near-peer coaching to 700 AlamoPROMISE students on two of its campuses, the majority of whom are from under-resourced backgrounds or are first-generation students. SAN ANTONIO , Nov.

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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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University Business

APRIL 26, 2023

Specifically, the American Rescue Plan topped Connecticut off in fiscal year 2022-23 with another $195 million. His proposed plan to make all community college tuition-free to all students may also be in trouble, considering it called for a $54 million budget increase from 2023, and another $127 million more the following year.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2023

Advice Newsletter publication dates: Tuesday, October 18, 2022 Diversity Newsletter publication date: Tuesday, October 18, 2022 Trending: One solution: build a common time into the schedule, for example, at midday, and dedicate that time for various events and meetings. Steven Mintz Show on Jobs site: Disable left side advertisement?:

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Parchment

AUGUST 30, 2024

In this article, we dig deeper to see how dual enrollment can open doors to college for a broader range of learners, examine the persistent gaps in access to dual enrollment opportunities, and explore a strategy that community colleges are implementing to break down the barriers still standing in the way.

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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

MARCH 6, 2023

” Why eating disorders emerge during college: College has long been considered a risky time for students with or at risk of developing eating disorders, for a variety of developmental, environmental and social factors. Services may be spaced out, depending on a student’s level of need.

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EAB

JANUARY 5, 2023

Update strategic enrollment management Align student support services Transform health and wellbeing Deepen student engagement and belonging Revitalize student onboarding. -->. -->. --> Redesign student learning. -->. -->. -->. December 15, 2022. EAB Virtual Strategy Forum for Community College Presidents.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This simple but effective tool allows the institution to reach out discreetly, as only designated staff members are alerted when someone raises their hand—initiating a timely response from counseling or support services.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

EAB’s Tara Zirkel is joined by Center for Community College Student Engagement Executive Director Dr. Linda Garcia, as well as Associate Director of Publications, Dr. Courtney Adkins, to discuss new research on student engagement. Today, community colleges are being asked to rise to new challenges.

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Top Strategies for Improving Student Retention in Higher Education admin Fri, 12/23/2022 - 05:27 It is the rule of Gen Z now. Peer relationships, participation in campus activities, and accessibility to support services are all factors that can affect social integration.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2023

For the third study in the Fall of 2022, the top two reasons students are considering stopping out are emotional stress at 69% and personal health reasons at 59%. For our past study in the fall of 2022, we also asked about personal mental health for bachelor’s degree students at a four-year institution, and it was 59%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. Hines & E.C. Fletcher (Eds.)

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University Business

APRIL 9, 2024

Yet, this developing flexibility is underdeveloped in many community colleges where technical and in-person training is staunchly preserved. Competitive strategies include extension workshops that push into a local employer’s training space and then convert employees into college-going, nontraditional students.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2023

In stark contrast to prevailing trends in higher education, colleges and universities have or are boosting their enrollment, retention, and graduation rates by improving their students’ sense of belonging, student support services, student-faculty relationships, and career readiness programs. It has the highest correlation.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 2, 2023

And yet, I worry that a relationship-rich college experience is a pipedream, what with teaching delivered, in large part, by adjuncts, post-docs, and graduate students, faculty torn between their teaching, research, and family obligations, support services severely understaffed, and mentoring largely unrecognized and unrewarded.

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