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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. 3, Interim President Stockwell Day—a former Canadian minister of finance—noted that the college wasn’t close to hitting the $2.6 million was Feb. The news has not been promising.

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How do colleges hit record-level fundraising? It’s all about the alumni

University Business

Two things: persistence and alumni. In the fiscal year 2022, the university received $115 million in donations , which set a school record for the most gifts raised during a single fiscal year. Even in times like we’re in right now, our alumni want to give students the same opportunity they had. Temple University.

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5 New Solutions that Improve the Student Experience

Campus Groups

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. Academics ?

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The consequence: the richest institutions can fully fund the education of lower-income students, while the vast majority of working-class and lower-middle-class undergraduates must take out loans to pay for their education. Swensen, taking advantage of alternate assets, including hedge funds, private equity and natural resources.

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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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Spotlight on Voices of Movers and Shakers: In pursuit of closing the career aspiration gap

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

At some point, I dropped out of school and had to sell chickens on the roadside to raise funds for my education. Luckily, through my mother’s civil servant pension fund, I was extended school fee loans that educated me throughout high school, but this was not enough to take me to university.

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Improving Higher Education Governance: The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 3

The Change Leader, Inc.

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.