Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 1, 2024

California governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation banning admissions preferences for relatives of alumni and donors at both public and private universities in the state on Monday, the second law in the nation that applies to independent as well as public colleges. It’s the most consequential legacy legislation to date.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 21, 2024

Non–tenure-track faculty members at two more private universities have voted to unionize. At Tulane University, full-time teaching faculty members voted 146 to 29 to unionize, the university said. The new union, Tulane Workers United, is affiliated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 25, 2024

Davenport U Launches Bilingual Degree Program for Latino Students Sara Weissman Mon, 03/25/2024 - 03:00 AM The private university in Michigan is producing online degree programs with courses that alternate between English and Spanish each week. Byline(s) Sara Weissman

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 31, 2023

Community colleges, also known as junior colleges These are 2-year institutions that offer Associates degrees in a wide variety of academic disciplines. Community colleges also offer technical and vocational training. How difficult is it to apply to US universities from Brazil?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 11, 2023

Three private universities in California say they admitted students in recent years who didn’t meet the institutions’ academic requirements.

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University Business

JULY 10, 2024

Small- to mid-sized colleges that lack brand power are finding themselves at a deeper recruiting disadvantage than large state schools and high-profile private universities. More from UB: Is community college reaching a new level of confidence?

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University Business

MAY 10, 2023

Eligible students must be enrolled in at least one credit per semester at a public community college or four-year university in either the University of Minnesota, Minnesota State system, or a state tribal college. The program is estimated to cost $117 million in the fiscal year beginning July 1 and $49.5

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Is your college prepared for climate change? Bryan Alexander’s new book, Universities on Fire, is a structured series of speculations about what that might mean. Is your college coastal? Community colleges in coastal counties are meant to serve those counties.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

The community college also is partnering with the developers to serve as a workforce training hub. The coliseum sits just north of the Hempstead Turnpike, a major thoroughfare that also bisects the Hofstra University campus. ” Nassau Community College enrolls about 12,500 students, according to federal data.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 11, 2023

Three private universities in California universities acknowledged to the state that in recent years they admitted some legacy students who did not meet their minimum admissions requirements, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The study was of 600 college freshmen at three private universities. Every additional hour of average nightly sleep early in the semester is associated with an 0.07-point point increase in end-of-term grade point average, according to study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

A large private university reported to EAB that their donor counts in FY’20 had been closely tracking their 2019 numbers. However, when the university decided to stop all solicitations four months before the fiscal year end, their donor counts dropped so dramatically that they finished 2020 with 17% fewer donors for the year.

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Study and Go Abroad

MAY 4, 2023

The United States boasts an incredibly diverse education system with 2-year colleges, public and private universities, liberal arts colleges, research universities, technical and art institutes, specialized universities (such as culinary, fashion, health, or criminal justice), and more! In fact, a U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

Unions for Private University Grad Students Under federal law, private university employees can unionize—except, generally, tenured and tenure-track faculty, following a 1980 U.S. But Matthew Thomas, a Duke University Ph.D. ” “We become a union by acting like one,” she said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 29, 2023

Image: Iowa Wesleyan University is closing, citing rising costs, shifting enrollment trends, declining fundraising and the governor’s rejection of a proposal for federal COVID-19 relief funds.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The study was of 600 college freshmen at three private universities. Every additional hour of average nightly sleep early in the semester is associated with an 0.07-point point increase in end-of-term grade point average, according to study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

private university’s 167 faculty members with full-time or prorated faculty contracts. “We had to get us operating within our means,” Ferris said. “So that very much felt like code for pending layoffs.” ” Ferris said the assembly includes the Cambridge, Mass., Lesley doesn’t offer tenure.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Ultimately, I believe learning organizations—for-profit or nonprofit, public or private, university or alternative—should be judged on the merits of their impact on learners. I think looking through the lens of tax status alone is an insufficient way to evaluate an organization.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

“You can create a net-zero campus pretty easily by just shutting it down,” quips Jay Antle, executive director of the Center for Sustainability and a history professor at Johnson County Community College, in Kansas. ” Good and green, but not for the right reasons. “Seriously. They need to stop.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 5, 2023

My younger son studies engineering at a large public university; I’m a dean for liberal arts education at a midsize private university. His experiences, and those of his friends, remind me of the blessings and limitations of elite private education. I’ll be forever grateful for those days.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2025

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker A legislative initiative backed by Illinois Governor JB Pritzker that would allow community colleges to offer four-year bachelor's degrees in high-demand fields has temporarily stalled in the state's General Assembly, with lawmakers raising concerns about potential impacts on minority-serving institutions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 7, 2023

“I would characterize this as highly unusual,” said Bonnie Fox Garrity, president of the university’s Faculty Senate and a faculty member for 24 years. Faculty members said they resumed teaching after the private university in Buffalo, N.Y., canceled classes from Feb.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 18, 2023

“I know that the president has said the company is not making him any money, but it doesn’t matter—he is still representing two things, which is a private company and a private university. And that’s always going to be in conflict.

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Parchment

APRIL 20, 2023

Harvard University had an 8.2% yield) got into the elite private university. In contrast, enrollment in the public college sector declined by 5% with community colleges losing 351,000 students since 2020. increase in applications between 2021 and 2022. Of the 42,749 applications, only 1,962 students (4.6%

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

On the bottom was the California Community College System. Any student anywhere in the state would be within easy commute of a college that could offer a two-year degree, an on-ramp to skilled work, and the ability to transfer credit to four-year institutions. Community colleges accept the top 100% of students who apply.

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 4, 2023

ACBSP-accredited institutions include public and private universities, community colleges, and other types of educational institutions that offer business programs at the associate, baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral levels.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Meanwhile, public expectations about the kind of diverse, immersive, interactive, participatory, and technology-enhanced exhibits museums should offer escalate, while their educational and community outreach responsibilities mount. A recent book by Daniel H.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 29, 2025

Martin University, the only predominantly Black institution in Indiana, started receiving state funding two years agoa welcome $5million cash influx for the enrollment-starved private university. But this year, Republican governor Mike Braun left the university out of his proposed 202527 budget.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When college presidents have lost the confidence of Lawrence Tribe, Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro and the Biden White House, mistrust runs deep. The causes and consequences of mounting public distrust of elite higher education. Distrust in higher education is no longer a purely partisan matter.

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University Business

MARCH 7, 2023

Michigan’s only private university in the state’s upper peninsula, Finlandia University, announced last week it will not enroll students for fall 2023, officially marking its closure at the conclusion of the current academic year.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Improving retention of undecided freshman & sophomore football players A private university in the Midwest used Navigate’s Population Health Dashboard to narrow its focus to the 2022 Spring Freshmen and Sophomore students classified as undecided and playing on the football team.

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University Business

MARCH 29, 2023

Small private school Iowa Wesleyan University, founded before the Civil War, announced its plans to close at the conclusion of the academic year on Tuesday. The board of trustees unanimously voted to shut the school down despite growing enrollment post-pandemic, thanks in part to a partnership with a local community college.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Strategic Responses and Adaptations In response to these pressures, colleges and universities have adopted various strategies. Franklin University exemplifies innovation in enrollment strategies, with a systematized process for transferring credits from community colleges. So the politics is going to continue.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Whether they lead prestigious Ivy League schools, prominent large state universities, proud HBCUs, principled faith-based colleges, selective liberal arts colleges, fortified private universities, or pragmatic community colleges, higher education leaders are not cowering to calls for institutional neutralitybut are instead coming out swinging.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2019

Weve also seen community colleges assume more of a role in reducing the costs of higher ed, as well as in degree completion. State (and other) colleges are beginning to put more emphasis on attracting transfer students. This makes a lot of sense, especially given the current high cost of private education (e.g.,

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