Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2024

The largest gain in retention rates over the last decade was in community colleges — increasing 3.7 Shapiro noted that community colleges saw the sharpest declines in enrollment and persistence at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially among part-time students, and that is now rebounding.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

“The governor has proposed some bold new investments in higher education and a comprehensive approach that will pay dividends for years to come,” he said. Marcus, professor of higher education and director of the Steinhardt Institute of Higher Education Policy at New York University, agreed. “It She gets it.” Marcus agreed. “I

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University Business

JUNE 21, 2024

Community colleges must recommit to reforming developmental education courses, or dev-ed, to ensure K12 students hampered by the pandemic won’t crash out of the postsecondary track, declares a new report from FutureEd, a public policy think tank at Georgetown University.

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University Business

MARCH 18, 2025

” “I think we’re going to see schools shift to more non-degree, continuing education courses. the new chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee, is squarely focused on upskilling the country’s workforce by bolstering training programs in the country’s most in-demand careers. . ” U.S.

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EAB

APRIL 24, 2023

How Northampton Community College Simplified Compliance Reporting with Automated Data Preparation Northampton’s New Process with Edify Saves Valuable Staff Time About Northampton Community College is a public two-year college serving 20,000+ students across three campuses in Pennsylvania. It’s a whole team.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

A new study focusing on employers’ perspectives on micro-credentials reveals that while a strong majority of them believe it boosts a prospective hire’s value, not enough colleges and universities are capitalizing on it. A résumé containing micro-credentials is increasingly advantageous.

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University Business

AUGUST 28, 2024

“[T]hose institutions thriving within the changing landscape of higher education continue to make it easy for people to unbundle and rebundle their education and training, allowing them to personalize and best meet their career and personal goals,” read the report.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The writing is on the wall for higher education to revamp its curriculum to win the next cohort of students. Many colleges and universities are seeking to do so by inviting collaboration with industry professionals and employers to create programs that deeply reflect the needs of the workforce.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Georgetown already offers an on-campus version of this program through its School of Continuing Education to a student body that consists of 62 percent students of color and 40 percent military-connected learners. That figure is much cheaper than average list price of $1,586 for an in-person education at a private institution.

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Parchment

JANUARY 7, 2025

And then the other aspect of outcomes, of course, is outcomes of value in terms of employment and earnings or continued education or, you know, better skill in the workplace. What is credential quality? What do we mean by that? Michelle (00:28.994) Well, that is a good question. I think it can mean many things to different people.

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University Business

JULY 6, 2023

Thanks to a boom in partnerships, online career-focused training is getting closer to being embedded within college curricula rather than existing as its own separate credential and certificate program. Schools are branding the training programs and offering them to adult and continuing education students through their catalog.

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Clark Nesxen

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As current President of the Virginia Chapter ( VANOMA ), I wanted to use this post as an opportunity to communicate why this organization is important to me and our industry. Conference attendees receive learning opportunities to fulfill continuing education requirements with various seminars and site visits.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Ninety-five percent of employers see benefits in their employees accruing microcredentials, according to a new survey from Collegis Education and UPCEA, the association for college and university leaders in online and professional continuing education.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Several degree-granting colleges and universities have found ways to open students’ accessibility to pathways programs—such as apprenticeships, certificates and certifications—while keeping the door open for continued education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

I will never forget what it was like to connect with professionals around the globe, learning from their unique perspectives and hearing how our course had helped them grapple with moral problems in their local communities. The project was fast-paced, experience driven and impact focused.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2025

The majority of my time spent there was signing on the new partner institutions, pitching to universities across the country and the world, and really getting them to understand the importance of online education, the benefits it could bring to their schools and how to do it in a really high quality way. Yeah, Alana Rose: Ooh, Yeah.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

“With the economy shifting … we need workforce education training faster and better,” said James Fong, chief research officer at the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA). ” That can mean sunk costs if a college invests in a program that does not ultimately succeed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Johnson The reach, scope, and importance of the California Community College (CCC) System cannot be overstated. As the largest system of higher education in the nation, it comprises 90,000 employees, 73 districts, 116 colleges, and nearly two million students. California community colleges matter.

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Parchment

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Comprehensive Learner Records are billed as a new way for learners to communicate the totality of their educational experience. And so early on we had four experiences, study abroad, global education, we had research and we had internship. But, what goes in a CLR? How are students utilizing it? And so that was a great step.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Projects addressed topics such as annual giving, student retention, professional and continuing education, academic program planning, 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.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

She spent 10 years working in the health services management field, overseeing the operation of large ambulatory medical practices in New York City and Connecticut, and later served as the program chair of the Allied Health Department at Naugatuck Valley Community College. Camille, welcome to the show.

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University Business

JUNE 28, 2024

Hired Lori Barber – College of Eastern Idaho College of Eastern Ohio President-elect Lori Barber Lori Barber has served as the vice president of academic and student affairs at the College of Eastern Idaho for the past five years; before that, she was the dean of general education. Prezant begins Aug.

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Edu Alliance Journal

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This topic has been of interest to me for over 50 years because I am one of those who dropped out of college. Yet nearly 40 million people from the age of 18-64 started higher education and did not complete one degree. During the next decade, the need for people with advanced credentials will continue to rise.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2023

To better understand how higher education got to where it is today, you might read Harvey J. Graff’s “ Lessons from the 1960s ,” a brief essay that looks back to that fateful and contentious decade for ideas about how we might reinvent higher education for the 21 st century. It was revisionist in a radical sense.

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