Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

In June, as the nation’s highest court handed down a predictable and yet devastating ruling striking down the use of affirmative action in college admissions, the Center for Journalism & Democracy announced its inaugural Visiting Professorship for Investigative or Data Journalism at Howard University. Here is why this matters.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 17, 2018

Institutional leaders are dealing with pressing challenges such as declining enrollments, unreliable federal and state funding, an aging faculty, and public discontent about higher education. “With additional financing, expeditious sale of surplus property, or a successful merger, Mount Ida would have survived and thrived.

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Edu Alliance Journal

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Upon graduation, I started immediately after commencement at a small university in Kentucky as an admissions officer and completed my master’s in a relativity short amount of time while working. Personal development courses (35%). Target in August 2021 announced a fund to support educational courses for its employees.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 25, 2023

Part of the larger Cambridge system that once depended largely on legacy admissions from private schools for decades, Lucy Cavendish now admits 90% of its freshmen class from 180 public high schools across the country. Yes, I can see how that has developed over the last 20 years—it must be, at least—in the US. Very interesting.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

That despite a quarter century of intensive efforts to raise college graduation rates, rates remain distressingly low for Black and Hispanic students, older students, part-time students, and community college students. Accreditors could, for example, require institutions to undergo professional development training in teaching.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2023

So as we're working with hundreds of colleges and universities to help them engage and enroll adult learners, what would you say is the biggest disconnect between how maybe graduate and undergraduate admission teams approach the task of recruiting adult learners? Coming in second was admissions requirements at 47%, which also makes sense.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The duo share their insights on 2023, discuss the unexpected developments, and what to prepare for with the higher education predictions for 2024. million in the first round of COVID relief funds, underscoring the significant impact of these aids. McNaughton cited an example of an institution that received $3.5

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