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Community colleges suffer from employee shortages

Confessions of a Community College Dean

But the system doesn’t have enough administrative staff to navigate the complexities of managing a multistate workforce and can’t offer the flexibility some employees want. She also noted that a growing lack of financial aid officers at the colleges risks slowing down the processing of student financial aid paperwork.

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Passionate pleas for and against tuition-sharing agreements

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Education Department announced last month that it would revisit nearly three decades of policy making under Title IV of the Higher Education Act that has largely restricted colleges from paying recruiters based on how many students they enroll.

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CPL for Incremental & Non-Credit Credentials

Parchment

We’ll see under the new administration, everything I’m hearing that my ears are open to and that I’m reading is that it will probably be a sooner rather than later priority. or workforce pellets it’s being called coming to fruition, at least in this next administration. And you have to prioritize.

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President moves: New hires, plus retiring leaders being lauded for their pandemic strategy

University Business

Riverso, however, hails from a distinguished background in private industry, specifically in engineering and construction. Gustafson served in faculty and administration at Presbyterian for nearly two decades before departing to Mercer University (Ga.) Bollinger, according to Kenyon College press release. president. “It

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Biden seeks Pell increase, renews calls for free community college

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Increasing the Pell Grant by is a key part of the administration’s plan to make college more affordable. The administration also is renewing calls for free community college with a $90 billion proposal over 10 years. Further, the administration wants $500 million to jump-start the free community college effort.

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Budget Freezes Are Coming for Higher Education

Robert Kelchen

Im now a veteran department head at a much better resourced university, but higher education is facing more uncertainty now than since March 2020 due to the bulldozer of the Trump administrations attempted and proposed changes. Im going to do everything I can to move quickly on searches just in case.

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Attracting International Graduate Students

Edu Alliance Journal

When graduate programs are considering the applications from students who have not grown-up in western industrialized countries consideration should be given to the fact that GRE score may not accurately reflect the abilities of prospective students. For example, this is often a concern about studying in the United States.