Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The affirmative action foe threatened to sue three colleges for allegedly defying the Supreme Court’s race-conscious admissions ban. Selective colleges began unveiling demographic data for the Class of 2028, the first admitted after the 2023 affirmative action ban, just a few weeks ago, and already legal threats are flying.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The share of Black and Hispanic students in Brown University’s incoming Class of 2028 dropped by 10 percentage points since last year, from 29 percent to 19 percent, according to demographic data released by the university. That marks a significant decline in diversity one year after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Fourteen percent of Harvard University’s Class of 2028 identify as Black or African American, a drop of four percentage points from last year, according to institutional data released Wednesday. The news comes a little over a year after the Supreme Court ruled against the university in Students for Fair Admissions v.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Texas A&M University will close its campus in Qatar by 2028, ending a 21-year partnership with the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, run by the Qatari government.

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University Business

MAY 13, 2024

ajor companies and voter registration groups have formed a new coalition to increase voting among community college students, whose voting rates historically have lagged behind their four-year college< and university peers. It is spearheaded by Levi Strauss & Co. Read more from Inside Higher Ed.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

If the bill passes, IHL will have until June 30, 2025, to select them, with closure mandated by 2028. The legislation—Senate Bill 2726—doesn’t specify the three, deferring that decision to the Institutions of Higher Learning, which oversees the state’s eight public universities.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

(You can see details of these trends and learn more by visiting the National Center for Education Statistics’ website and, in particular, Projections of Education Statistics to Year 2028.) Details of the demographic shifts affecting higher education were eye-opening and terrifying.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Starting Out Chapman University is starting a campaign to raise $500 million by 2028. Finishing Up College of St. The university has raised $315 million so far. Mount Saint Mary’s University , of Maryland, has started a campaign to raise $50 million. To date, the university has raised $22 million.

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University Business

AUGUST 21, 2023

By 2028, others put the cannabis industry’s market cap at nearly $200 billion. Portland Community College offers three different programs which span only nine weeks and cost less than a thousand dollars. The economic impact is becoming difficult to ignore.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Marketing and communications professionals must see what you don’t see at first, critically assess what images communicate and make sure whatever is conveyed is on purpose. That’s not just a no, but a “hell, no.”

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EAB

MARCH 24, 2023

For starters, there will be a predicted six-million-person deficit between labor supply and demand by 2028. Institutions therefore must begin planning and investing in their talent strategy and infrastructure now if they are going to be able to compete in the future.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

More than five years ago, “OLC entered into binding contracts with specific hotels through 2028,” Mathes said in an email. Its chief executive officer, Jennifer Mathes, said it would be difficult for the group to change its conference site. “The penalty charged by the hotels for changes are steep,” Mathes said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Vanderbilt University’s Class of 2028 was significantly less diverse than last year’s incoming class, with underrepresented students of color declining by nearly 10 percentage points, according to institutional data released Monday. Black student enrollment decreased by the widest margin, from 11.5

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Higher Education Inquirer

AUGUST 30, 2022

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