Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2024

Ten finalists have been named and are still in the running for the Aspen Institute’s 2025 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. The biennial prize, which comes with $1 million award, recognizes strong performance among community colleges. They show that excellence can be reached in any and every context.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) has launched a partnership pilot program to increase effectiveness of skills-based hiring with the help of a $350,000 grant from the Lumina Foundation. One of the goals is to create a pipeline of skilled and career-ready job candidates.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Tennessee Higher Education Commission announced Monday that the Tennessee Promise program saw a record number of applicants—more than 670,000—from the Class of 2025. The program, launched in 2015, is a last-dollar free tuition scholarship for the state’s community college students.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A defining moment for higher education in this country lurks just around the corner. The supply of college-eligible students may never recover — at least not for the next two decades or until birth rates rebound to levels not seen since the turn of the century — so the stakes for how institutions respond could not be higher.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

The global nonprofit Aspen Institute has named 20 semifinalists for the 2025 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, a $1 million prize. The Aspen Institute plans to announce 10 finalists in June. The Aspen Institute plans to announce 10 finalists in June.

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 23, 2024

Senate President Karen Spilka advises to “keep your eyes peeled” for free community college funding in the Senate’s version of the fiscal year 2025 budget. The report was rolled out to reporters last week alongside Spilka, Senate Ways and Means Chair Michael Rodrigues and Higher Education Committee Chair Sen.

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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. Mitra, vice president of student affairs & enrollment management at Queensborough Community College When asked if the FAFSA impacted freshman enrollment, Shapiro said the data doesn’t address that issue.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2024

Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, Alabama, is one of the 10 institutions chosen as finalists for the 2025 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. Wallace State, Northwest Vista College in Texas, and Moorpark College in California are three finalists noted for fostering cultures.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Established 53 years ago and built on principles of social justice, AAP’s mission is to create and administer innovative academic programs for students historically underrepresented in higher education. Salcedo is the director of the Center for Community College Partnerships at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

The report’s conclusions urge institutions to find ways to engage this ever-growing population, particularly to help America achieve its 60% credential attainment goal for those between 25 and 64 years old by the year 2025. Dr. Kaleb Briscoe, assistant professor of adult and higher education at the University of Oklahoma.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2024

Dear Black women in higher education, 2023 should have been a wake-up call to our community, yet the red flags persist. Montague of Volunteer State Community College, was a signal to all other Black women in higher education. The untimely deaths of two Black women presidents, JoAnne A.

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Ray Schroeder

MAY 22, 2023

The student body presidents of all seven public universities and several community colleges said students could be forced into more debt. It opposes a proposal to cut the public university and community college budget for 2023-2025 by 2.5% compared with the current two-year budget.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 2, 2023

Those recognized with it this year will be showcased as recipients through the 2025-2026 academic year, according to the website. Additionally, one institution will be awarded $25,000, and one nonprofit will get $15,000 award. The two awarded parties must put the funds towards advancing their respective student parent support efforts.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Interest in Tennesse’s free tuition program for its community and state technical colleges is promising, to say the least, as the number of applicants for its Class of 2025 broke last year’s record by more than 700. Community colleges, however, have fared better than their counterparts.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The labels for Carnegie’s updated classification system are not etched in stone, and it awaits feedback from higher education stakeholders about what should be taken into account. The major changes will be announced in early 2025. If you would like to provide feedback on what the next iteration should look like, go here.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The overhaul – which comes with form simplifications, different student aid measures and calculations, and expanded Pell Grant eligibility – is expected to be beneficial and to increase federal financial aid eligibility, according to a 2023 report from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO).

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University Business

AUGUST 23, 2024

Retiring Barbara Altmann – Franklin and Marshall College (Pa.) Barbara Altmann, Franklin and Marshall College’s first female president, announced she would be retiring in July 2025. She will have served the liberal arts college for seven years when she steps down. Read University Business’ coverage here.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

No higher education institution can remain static in today’s rapidly changing workforce environment. “As emerging technologies abruptly change the way we live and work, higher ed finds itself in a conundrum,” she says. ” The college isn’t just looking at STEM in new ways, Kilic adds. .

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University Business

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Our goal is simple: provide students with opportunities to earn college credits, certificates and associate degrees, gain industry-recognized credentials, and build real-world experience while they’re still in high school. It’s about preparing them for life, whether they choose to pursue higher education, enter the workforce or both.

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University Business

AUGUST 21, 2023

Legalized cannabis is expected to be an estimated $150 billion industry by 2025,” program manager Stacy Godlewski said in a press statement. “In Consequently, higher education institutions are taking notice as they continue to offer flexible, affordable and enticing programs to attract students. Louis area in just two years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Undergraduate education One of the commitments began expanding undergraduate education to make sure all students experience courses or curriculum related specifically to racism and racial equity, which was approved last fall by the general education committee and the provost. We have good transfer agreements,” says Mantella. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Gavin Newsom Undocumented students in California’s higher education system may soon be able to get a job in California’s public universities and colleges. California would become the first state in the nation to employ undocumented college students without legal work permits, pending a signature from Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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University Business

JUNE 13, 2023

In the last month, two states have decided to address their higher education systems’ most pressing issues by leveraging state funding to reward institutions that can deliver—and deprive those that can’t. Greg Abbott approved legislation on Monday to increase its community college biennium funding by nearly 25% for $2.2

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

14 November · Episode 181 Tough Times Ahead for Higher Education Enrollment 42 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Dive into the complexities of higher education enrollment–navigate through its current challenges, and uncover strategies for the tough times ahead.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In June 2023, the school formed a partnership with Hudson County Community College for HCCC|NJCU CONNECT , a dual-admission initiative that leads to degree pathways. We will be poised to enter 2025 in a much stronger position,” Acebo said. “[We . … We really are a model of labor management relations with public universities.”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2023

college or university say their barriers have been to finishing their education over three years. Courtney Brown of the Lumina Foundation Higher ed leaders can learn what 6,000 current students, 3,000 people who stopped out, and 3,000 more who never enrolled in a U.S. Courtney, welcome to the program.

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University Business

JULY 25, 2024

Pharr, Pitt Community College (N.C.) Pharr has been appointed the first female president of Pitt Community College after having led South Piedmont Community College (also in North Carolina) for the past seven years. Thomas, Morehouse College (Ga.) Mary Lou Retelle, Ana Maria College (Mass.)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

The Inclusive Higher Education Accreditation Council is set to make its first campus accreditation visit this week at Western Carolina University. Accreditation “would create that validation for parents and students in the community,” Price said. “I also think it would help with students getting a job.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In many ways, the same challenges facing the military are also disrupting higher education. It’s easy to cite the pandemic as the culprit, but higher education’s enrollment crisis has been festering for more than a decade. Undergraduate enrollment has consistently declined in recent years.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Unlike in past economic slowdowns, financial turmoil and spikes in unemployment during the early months of the pandemic did not send large numbers of students fleeing the job market into higher education. Harnisch, vice president for government relations at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

OpenAI mastermind Sam Altman and social media pioneer Jason Citron are just a few A-list investors backing Campus, a completely online community college reimagining the two-year experience for students and faculty. At the K12 level, too, online school alternatives are beginning to percolate.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

But recent findings from a year later show marked—though inequitable—progress toward the foundation’s goal that 60 percent of working-age adults in the country hold a degree or credential by 2025. For example, Washington, D.C.,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 29, 2023

Although distance education has long been perceived by some as inferior in quality, more than half of American adults surveyed in 2022 believe that the quality of online instruction in higher education is the same as—or better than—in-person instruction, up from 37 percent the year before.

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 9, 2024

We urge Chancellors King and Matos Rodríguez, Chairs Tisch and Thompson, and Governor Hochul to make New York State the national leader in college affordability and in advancing the mission of public higher education. Thompson, Jr.,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

While caveats apply, established universities must now conduct research at “world standard” in at least half the broad fields of education they teach. The body charged with enforcing this obligation is the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), the brainchild of late higher education reviewer Denise Bradley.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Blog: Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education Two years. That’s how long colleges have to prepare for the enrollment cliff predicted by the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

” The program has been very good for IBM, too, which is why it has invested over $250 million in its apprenticeship programs through 2025, Barnes said. Though Simmons’s talk addressed higher education and American democracy, she echoed some themes in the “bad policy” panel.

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