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SINDY REYNOLDS

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Reynolds, a Cleveland State alumna, served the Tennessee college as bursar. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Tennessee Wesleyan, a master’s from Austin Peay State University, and a doctorate in education from East Tennessee State University.

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Secret Shoppers and Audience Awareness

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean The Education Department is planning to deploy “secret shoppers ” to colleges around the country to suss out deceptive and predatory practices, particularly around financial aid. The office most colleges called the bursar was instead called the cashier.

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Adult learners: Who they are & what they want from college

EAB

Get more information For more on recruiting adult student populations, including graduate students, subscribe to the Professional and Adult Education Blog. Thirty percent of surveyed adult learners who discontinued their education said they stopped out because of high costs.

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Consolidating touch points for retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: One-stop services are not new to higher education. For decades, colleges have consolidated many of their admissions and enrollment services functions under a single umbrella office—including, but not limited to, the bursar, the registrar, the cashier’s office and financial aid. Why a One-Stop?

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Drive Enrollment Growth with First-Gen Pathways to Success: Changing Higher Education Podcast 167 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Marielena DeSanctis

The Change Leader, Inc.

Unfortunately, many higher education practices complicate first-gen students’ ability to stay through graduation or even apply. She started her education career in K-12 and moved to community college leadership. Her mother was a first-gen student while she was a first-gen ‘traditional” student.

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Survey data show disparities in college course registration holds

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“There is a balancing act that institutions do in terms of trying to ensure the student has done all of the things they need to do to secure the financing for their education,” Gottlieb says. “It is not in the student’s best interest to rack up gigantic amounts of debt and continue to progress.” ” Why?

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions. The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more.