University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education. Hired Trevor Bates – Mercy College of Ohio Trevor Bates Mercy College of Ohio has announced Trevor Bates as its next president.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But at the beginning of this new fall semester, colleges across the country are reporting big turnarounds. The University of Arkansas, for example, has welcomed a record number of students this school year, topping 32,000. gain in first-time college students, thanks in part to an 8.9%

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University Business

APRIL 16, 2024

The inflation-adjusted sticker price at a four-year public college rose by 66% from the 1995-96 academic year to 2019-20 and increased by 79% at private colleges. Only 26% of in-state public college students paid this published rate in 2019-20, compared to the 53% who did three decades ago.

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University Business

MAY 10, 2023

Hampshire College, the private liberal arts college known for its experimental teaching style, admitted 13 students in 2019. Hampshire College is now set to welcome more than 300 students, its largest class since 2018. Additionally, the school has spread its recruitment class across 37 states.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.” Manhattanville remains a private liberal arts institution, but it has changed its orientation somewhat in recent years. Geisler last summer. Focus on the Future.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Interventions to improve student success rates such as corequisite designs, curriculum alignment with high school math and increased support services provide certain levels of improvement but do not address the underlying issue: the student-deficiency mentality common among higher education practitioners. And the list goes on.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 15, 2023

News & World Report released its first list of annual college rankings in 1983. Since then, prospective students (and their parents) have used the rankings as a guide for where to consider going to school. News College Rankings The 2022 Best Colleges list reflects nearly 40 years of ranking colleges for U.S.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Lake Superior State University blazed the trail with cannabis certificates in 2019. Yet, the US only has a handful of schools offering full-fledged degrees; most stick to certificates or minors. Roanoke College stands out in cannabis education, breaking away from the big research universities.

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University Business

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Entrepreneurial-minded college and university leaders are overhauling deeply ingrained systems and frameworks to thrive in higher education’s next chapter. The latest shining example is Marcy Lab School. Note: Marcy Lab School refers to its “students” as “fellows.” We know how wrong that is.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: Gustavus Adolphus College went 161 years without any graduate programs. Like other small private institutions, Gustavus Adolphus, a Lutheran college in southern Minnesota, faces a shrinking pool of traditional-age students, even ahead of the projected decline in college-age students due to kick in later this decade.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Image: Some colleges and universities have offered mental health days or experimented with work-from-home policies to address burnout and low employee morale during the pandemic. Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C., It offered a second opportunity in 2019.

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University Business

APRIL 7, 2023

The past week saw a top 10 research university gain its first female president and a pair of small private schools electing new leadership. She was the first woman president at Minnesota, and the same is true at Pitt where she will be serving as the 236-year-old school’s 19th chancellor. One major appointment Joan T.A.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Image: Campus leaders at Vassar College are on a mission to bring community college students to liberal arts institutions. The courses are co-taught by Vassar and community college faculty. Campus leaders will also arrange convenings of administrators from these liberal arts colleges throughout the two years.

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University Business

AUGUST 8, 2024

Walz, a classroom hero Walz began his working life after college as an international volunteer instructor and then returned to teach at a high school and coach football in his home state. ” As the governor of Minnesota since 2019, Walz has backed historic funding levels for K12 and higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

If Blackwood’s course sounds like a divergence from the humdrum small-group discussions that college English courses bring to mind, well, you probably haven’t taken a college English class recently. The university’s overall enrollment remained basically steady from fall 2019 to fall 2022.)

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There may be more opportunities at a research-focused university than a community college or a school more focused on liberal arts. Despite this, 53% of student respondents at our two-year college have indicated they would be interested in research opportunities and identified far more benefits than barriers.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

” Leffingwell is slated to teach at New York City’s New School in the spring—an institution comprised of the Parsons School of Design, a liberal arts college, a performing arts college, the Mannes conservatory and several graduate schools. In New York City?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Image: Rising numbers of community college students kept total enrollment across all sectors of higher education flat this spring despite a decline in the largest category of institutions by share of enrollment: public four-year universities. Community college enrollment increased by 2.1 percent at nonprofit institutions and 2.2

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There may be more opportunities at a research-focused university than a community college or a school more focused on liberal arts. Despite this, 53% of student respondents at our two-year college have indicated they would be interested in research opportunities and identified far more benefits than barriers.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In the final weeks of 2019, I posted what I believed were the eight leading threats to higher education. National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) Changes 3. The “ demographic cliff ,” when we know the number of traditional college-age students will drop by about 1.1 At the time they were: 1.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

The individual was referencing an article , “A Word From Abigail Thompson … a Vice President of the AMS,” that was published in a late-2019 issue of the Notices of the AMS and divided the math community at the time. She is a member of both the Mathematical Association of America and American Mathematical Society.).

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

. · AACC – American Association of Community Colleges – One of “The Six” Higher-Education Organizations in Washington, DC; they represent almost 1,200 institutions · AACSB – Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business – This is the leading accrediting body for business schools in the U.S.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 20, 2022

First, post-traditional students being recruited aggressively by a surprisingly broad swath of colleges and universities. One could argue this trend started with the MOOCs and with OPMs like 2U moving upmarket, if you consider employed white-collar college graduates as post-traditional. million in 2019.” Enrollment shifts.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Image: Tensions escalated last week between the University of California system and the New School and their respective striking academic workers. The New School also floated the idea of hiring replacement graders for the fall term and said it was doing “contingency planning” for the spring. Learning at the New School.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

Boston University Boston University Questrom School of Business The Questrom Ascend Fellowship at Boston University’s (BU) Questrom School of Business seeks to build a community for first-generation and underrepresented BU business students of color. Georgia College & State University Georgia College & State University J.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Before new programs can start, a college or university will need staff on board and to train those employees, along with funding beyond the Pell Grants, which typically don’t cover the total cost. Then, an institution will have to get approval from its accreditor, a corrections agency, and the U.S.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

For a deeper look into the reasons why college enrollments are declining, see our earlier post, College Enrollment: Cliffs, Shifts, and Lifts. A surprising selection of colleges and universities are thriving despite the culling of institutions and programs happening around them. According to the Tampa Bay Times , St.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

For a deeper look into the reasons why college enrollments are declining, see our earlier post, College Enrollment: Cliffs, Shifts, and Lifts. A surprising selection of colleges and universities are thriving despite the culling of institutions and programs happening around them. According to the Tampa Bay Times , St.

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Echo Delta

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Colleges realized the pre-pandemic visit just wouldn’t cut it anymore. Now schools are stepping up to make campus visits less of a visit and more of an experience. Jeff Kallay: You’re a graduate of a small liberal arts college? And was really looking at schools maybe 200, 250 miles away from home.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

While it includes a commitment to civic responsibilities, it also emphasizes the importance of producing employment-ready graduates with skills that transcend the boundaries of STEM and liberal arts education. I’ve worked at virtually every level of higher education, from community college to graduate-only schools.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One of the biggest challenges students face is determining their return on investment for obtaining a college degree. schools serving low-income students, which challenges and debunks U.S. Furthermore, the data identifies the top 1,320 U.S. News & World Report findings.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

These changes are reshaping how colleges and universities must embrace an adaptive approach to student recruitment and retention. The Shifting Landscape of Higher Education Enrollment Enrollment patterns in colleges and universities are undergoing significant transformations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

The report is based on data from a survey of nearly 900 US colleges and institutions, who provided information on more than 370,000 full-time and 90,000 part-time faculty members. Colleges let short-term employees go to save money during the pandemic, and many of their courses were absorbed by other faculty members, he said.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: Amid faltering enrollment rates and increased national scrutiny of the price and worth of a college education, Colorado is weighing a new formula to measure the “economic value” of degree programs offered by the state’s public institutions of higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer More than 130 four-year colleges and universities with the nation’s highest graduation rates have come together as members of the American Talent Initiative (ATI), committing to a common goal: to enroll, support, and graduate 50,000 additional students from low- and moderate-income households by 2025.

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HEPI

JULY 23, 2024

The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. In both, a student ‘apprentice’ ‘graduated’ gradus by gradus , ‘degree’ by ‘degree’, to become a Bachelor then a Master of Arts. The London Medical Schools were clamouring for that right for themselves.)

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

This remarkable achievement sent shockwaves throughout the education sector, especially among teachers in schools and colleges. For example, a typical college classroom today does not appear much different from one in the last century; they both revolve around a center-staged professor lecturing to a few-rows-deep audience.

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