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Higher Education Faced Mounting Enrollment and Security Challenges in 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A new report from United Educators reveals that enrollment concerns reclaimed the top spot as the most pressing risk facing colleges and universities in 2024, with 71% of institutions identifying it as a major challenge. This represents an increase from 67% in the previous year. The annual Top Risks Survey, which gathered responses from 194 colleges and universities between August and December 2024, showed a significant shift in institutional priorities.

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ResLife Needs To Let Go: From Burnout to Balance: Redefining Success in Residence Life

Roompact

Residence life professionals often joke about the perennial stress of the job: late-night duty calls, back-to-back meetings, endless emails, and an overwhelming list of responsibilities. While humor can be a healthy coping mechanism, it also hints at a larger cultural issue (one that certainly has been highlighted by work culture during and since the pandemic.

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Warning of ‘skills chasm’ amid huge UK regional divide in qualifications

The Guardian Higher Education

Learning and Work Institute says 71% of Londoners and 65% of adults in Scotland will have degree by 2035, compared with 29% in East Yorkshire Economic growth in the UK risks being held back by a skills chasm between regions, as London and the south-east suck in highly qualified workers, according to a report by the Learning and Work Institute. The gap between high- and low-skilled areas of the UK is already wider than in many comparable countries and is forecast to widen, the thinktank says.

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University course ad written by AI

Higher Education Whisperer

In its latest social media promotion Torrens University has boasted "Think this ad was written by an AI expert? You'd be right. Apply now to graduate with a Graduate Certificate of Software Engineering". It is a bold move, but a little confusing as there is a lot more to software engineering than AI. Also a graduate certificate is only six months full time study.

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Historians Condemn ‘Scholasticide’ in Gaza at Conference

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The measure now goes to the groups elected council for approval, disapproval or a vote of the organizations 10,000-plus full membership. NEW YORK CITYAmerican Historical Association members attending the groups annual conference voted 428 to 88 Sunday to approve a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza and the U.S. governments funding of Israels war.

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Department of Labor Invests $65 Million in Community College Training Programs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a major investment of $65 million in community colleges across the country, aiming to expand access to high-quality Acting U.S. Secretary of Labor Julie Su workforce training in critical industries. The funding, distributed through the Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants program, will support 18 colleges across 14 states.

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Promises, Promises: Agency, Self-Actualization, the Higher Ed Social Contract

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Education is the key to unlock the golden door to freedom. George Washington Carver People generally enroll in college with dreams of creating lives like the ones their parents provided, or better. Ambitious, and often anxious, students enter collegiate Alicia P. Peoples environments aspiring to find answers, solve problems and create systems to support themselves and others.