Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: Community college leaders are largely thrilled about the rise in high school students enrolling in college classes, particularly after steep enrollment declines during the pandemic, and many are hoping the trend continues. The paper offers strategies for colleges to run dual-enrollment programs without breaking the bank.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2025

Drumm McNaughton speaks with Brent Miller, Higher Education Market Sector Leader at HED, about how institutional leaders are creatively structuring major projects through P3s, donor partnerships, and local bonds, while managing long-term costs and aligning with campus missions.

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2025

Department of Education laid off nearly all federal staff responsible for managing, analyzing and interpreting higher education data through the National Center for Education Statistics. College Navigator provides detailed institutional profiles, including enrollment, financial aid, admissions and accreditation data. Completion rates?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Image: Facing financial pressures, the King’s College made a recent appeal to donors for $2.6 So far, the college has raised $178,000, according to an email sent to supporters earlier this week. The college typically provides students with free food from Chick-fil-A at its weekly public reading of Scripture.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

” The first concern is an admitted student’s cost of enrollment and financial resources prior to starting at the institution, and then colleges must support the student in having the resources to graduate on time. Give special attention to building budgeting skills Budgeting was the No. What Is Financial Wellness?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The idea that academic library budgets are fungible shows ignorance of how these budgets work. Over the past couple of weeks, I worked with a number of academic librarians and an expert in higher ed finance to create a series of Q&As that explored academic library funding. Again, fair criticism.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Blogs Your student loan payments are due: 3 strategies to support community college students’ financial wellness When I think back to my time in college, student loans were something that nearly everyone had, but not something any of us fully understood. Specifically, we weren’t educated on how to repay them.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 16, 2024

This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. I use articles, working papers, news coverage, and other online resources to provide a current look at the state of higher education finance. Understanding budgets. Friedman, J.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2023

Image: Facing a budget deficit of $5 million, Southern Oregon University is considering a realignment plan that will include deep cuts, which its president says are necessary to right the ship financially. The new president first learned about the depth of SOU’s budget woes during his third day on the job.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The average return for all college endowments in fiscal 2022 was negative 8 percent, falling far short of the 30.6 NACUBO also found that colleges increased their endowment spending, with dollars increasingly flowing toward institutional operating budgets, largely focused on student financial aid.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

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. million, from $5.2

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

” And the last bill would mandate training programs in financial higher ed management for members of institutions’ governing boards. Brian Bridges, New Jersey’s secretary of higher education, said the legislation would help ensure that investment is managed responsibly. New Jersey invested nearly $2.8

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A college graduate should be able to locate and understand data sources, derive meaningful information from data, interpret data visualizations (including graphs and charts), critically assess, analyze and evaluate statistical claims, and recognize when data are misrepresented. Nor are arguments over how math should be taught new.

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Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

As a first-generation student , I have experienced the struggle of trying to finance an education while working long hours and balancing family demands. There is also increasing demand coming from adult learners who want to take college courses to gain new skills. Graduation rates can’t be our only measure of outcomes.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Completion agendas from outside entities such as Complete College America, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Lumina Foundation, and others have further promoted the use of this funding mechanism (2). In the second , I examined how to develop, structure, and staff an analytics organization.

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Parchment

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In this episode, we speak with Melanie Booth, Executive Director of the Higher Learning Commission’s Credential Lab, and Ian Roark, Vice Chancellor of Workforce Development & Innovation at Pima Community College, to discuss the policy and practice of making CPL a reality for different forms of credentials. Glad to be here.

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EAB

DECEMBER 20, 2022

College Pulse Survey, Spring 2022. A Gallup survey in fall 2021 revealed that two-thirds of community college students and an eye-popping three-fourths of bachelor’s degree students had considered leaving school in the previous six months due to emotional stress. When was your overall mental health the best?

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EAB

JANUARY 5, 2023

Here, we have organized all the work institutions must undertake to make progress on DEIJ into 33 mission-critical activities across six categories. -->. -->. --> Manage vision and strategy. -->. -->. -->. Meanwhile, no VPs of business and finance scored "update the budget process" highest. Activities. Activities. Activities.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more. Projects addressed topics such as program review, data strategy, budget models, enrollment growth, and more. The blog posts below are written by the participants to showcase their project and early outcomes.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2025

Positioning Marketing as a Strategic Asset This conversation highlights a major shift in how colleges must think about marketing. Colleges must build the infrastructure, messaging, and audience insights to drive enrollment in a more complex, data-driven environment. Simple decisions like how a program is named can have a major impact.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

PG: Well, President Davis, to get us started, if you wouldn't mind telling us a little bit about your institution as well as the students and the communities that you serve. Can you talk a little bit about how you prepared to make that commitment to the communities you serve? President Davis, welcome to the podcast. HD: We have.

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Higher Ed Connects: News

AUGUST 28, 2019

The good news is that a wide range of positions at colleges and universities are open to those with a Ph.D. The skills needed involve planning programs, managing budgets and understanding curricular development, as well as people skills that enable you to work effectively with students and faculty members. However, a Ph.D.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

The university has established over 1,300 articulation agreements with community colleges across the country. When a student from any of these community colleges applies to Franklin University, the system can instantly inform them about the transferability of their courses into their desired degree program.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

He went on to chair MIT Sloan School’s Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting; then became Deputy Dean of the school; and eventually serve for three years as the Chief Economist for the Security and Exchange Commission of the United States before returning to MIT. And as it turns out, I know and respect one of the authors.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This approach serves as inspiration and how-to for colleges and universities looking to thrive in a new era of learning, prepare students for success in their careers, and benefit society. Drumm McNaughton Implementing innovative structures in higher education is not an option; it's a necessity.

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Parchment

MARCH 26, 2024

link] Transcript Matthew Sterenberg (00:01.26) Alright, I am here with Rob Buelow, Vice President and General Manager of Education at Vector Solutions. I’ve spent the last 19 years working on or with colleges and universities. college, the unique experience of college that makes it valuable, right? Rob, how are you?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As the first public university in the West, SJSU is the original startup of Silicon Valley and a nationally recognized urban-centered, community-based anchor institution leveraging its strategic location to foster an environment ripe for revolutionary and evolutionary change and growth. Three Takeaways for University Presidents and Boards 1.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Education Department on Tuesday unveiled the details of its planned overhaul of income-driven repayment, which could transform the financing of higher education by providing more generous student loan repayment and forgiveness terms. Over all, the changes are expected to have a net budget impact of $137.9

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Parchment

JUNE 4, 2024

Whereas we have great partners like Shio, who are thinking about leveraging higher education pathways and some really specific sort of financing and data implementation. And then also just folks like the community college, the Association of Community College Trustees is a huge partner of ours.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Drumm McNaughton’s Predictions for 2023 Continuing Decline in College Enrollment: A Closer Look at 2023’s Trends 2022 Prediction for 2023: College enrollment will continue to decline. In 2023, college enrollment continued its downward trajectory. Grade given by Deb Maue: A.

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