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Required to Study Abroad

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Because he received free tuition, room, and board at Goucher, he only had to pay for food and his flights, he said. “I The goal is to reach 15% by 2028, Devereaux said. I think I had one of the best times of my life,” Toledo said. The classes were in French. I made a lot of local friends.

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Understanding Higher Education’s Enrollment Cliff, Trough and Recovery

Confessions of a Community College Dean

(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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Building Community through Faculty, Staff, and Student Mixers

The Student Affairs Blog

Whether through completing a craft activity together, or mingling with old and new friends over mocktails, members of the VCU community come together for a bit and share cultural food, speak languages other than English, and just hangout.”

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Community colleges suffer from employee shortages

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Zirkel added that students are increasingly coming to college with mental health problems , a lack of reliable food and housing , and learning losses from the pandemic, which makes having adequate staff to support them all the more critical.

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6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023

EAB

Increased unmet basic needs & mental health concerns According to a recent 2022 CCSSE report community college student mental health is worsening, and significant numbers of students are struggling with basic needs like housing and food.

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My whole existence, impinged by financial worries

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The report is not so hopeful regarding the coming years, projecting ‘that the living standards of households in the bottom 40 per cent of the population will not return to pre-pandemic levels before April 2028’. Life in the academy is not immune to these issues.