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A small college needs $2.6M to survive. It's raised $178K

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The deadline to raise the $2.6 So far, the college has raised $178,000, according to an email sent to supporters earlier this week. Since then, information has dripped out in twice-monthly community updates—held after the college’s regular Monday public readings of Scripture—and regular emails to alumni.

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5 New Solutions that Improve the Student Experience

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This starts with enrollment through to graduation, and beyond with alumni management. Our suite of solutions serves the entire Higher Ed community, helping students, staff, and alumni: ? To remain ahead of the curve, our team develops solutions together with partner campuses, and through market trend analysis.

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It’s time for wealthy colleges to share the wealth (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The competition for revenue and wealth began 130 years ago among elite colleges and universities that devised now-conventional practices such as annual alumni funds , national fundraising campaigns and aggressive endowment investing. During the Great Recession of 2008–09, Harvard raised liquid funds by issuing $2.5

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Sports betting contracts should be rethought (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

23 article in The New York Times , “ How College and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campus Life ,” which chronicled how universities have signed lucrative contracts with sports betting companies to promote online gambling to their students and campus communities. Nowhere has this been more evident than in a Nov.

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Tennessee State cites past underfunding as cause of problems

Confessions of a Community College Dean

But the university’s longtime president, Glenda Glover, alumni and other supporters of the Nashville institution have argued against a proposal that would place the institution under the oversight of the Tennessee Board of Regents, the governing board for 37 technical and community colleges in the state.

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Higher Education Strategic Planning That Drives Growth and Faculty Buy-In: Changing Higher Ed podcast 257 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. Andrew Hsu

The Change Leader, Inc.

Rather than introducing immediate top-down changes, he led a full year of strategic planning that included participation from faculty, staff, students, alumni, and governing boards. Dr. Hsu used insights from these industry relationships to guide curriculum focus areas and workforce development efforts at the College of Charleston.

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Can the three-year bachelor's degree become a reality?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Huddled around a table in the Georgetown University Alumni House, roughly two dozen academics convened last week to address two of the most persistent challenges in higher education: improving student outcomes and lowering the cost of a bachelor’s degree. Yes In-Article Careers: 3 Is this Career Advice newsletter?: