EAB

JULY 21, 2023

Blogs Why customer service matters for community colleges Learnings and recommendations from EAB’s 2023 customer service survey I just talked to someone in registration, and they told me to call you! What are the features of a “modern student experience,” and how do community colleges stack up?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Image: Community colleges across the country suffered staggering enrollment losses during the pandemic. But some campus leaders say free college programs might offer the boost institutions need to reverse declines. Sortor, vice president and chief academic officer at the Maine Community College System.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

New data show enrollment in California community colleges is at its lowest point in 30 years, the Los Angeles Times reported. The system has lost about 300,000 students since 2019, an 18 percent enrollment decrease. The enrollment declines could have a major impact on future enrollment-based funding for the colleges.

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University Business

MARCH 8, 2023

While rates for urban and suburban community college students transferring to more prestigious universities were declining before 2020, the pandemic exacerbated the issue. In the fall of 2022, upward transfers declined by 11% at suburban community colleges and 8.8% drops in the fall of 2019.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2023

When the minimum wage goes up, community college enrollment goes down. It makes sense that changes in the minimum wage would affect community college students. There was no significant effect on enrollment at 4-year colleges. Those are the students who have the most to gain from community college.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This is particularly true of community college students, who are more likely than others to have jobs and family commitments that make coming to a campus tough. In a recent report by Bay View Analytics , 94% of community college students gave their online courses a passing grade, and 58% expressed a desire for more.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Community colleges play a critical role, providing affordable and accessible education for diverse populations. According to the American Association of Community Colleges, our nation had over 1,000 public, tribal, and independent community colleges enrolling 10.2

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Although the pandemic has negatively impacted enrollment across the world of higher education, the drops for minoritized men at community colleges have been especially precipitous. African Americans and Native Americans have been particularly affected, suffering declines of 24% and 26% respectively between fall 2019 and fall 2021.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 31, 2023

It also reports that the global numbers as of 2022 had “recovered 65% to 70%” of 2019 levels. However, when splitting students by provider, Japan topped the community college-governed providers and university-governed providers – but was only second in the fastest growing cohort – private providers.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Image: Campus and faculty leaders in the California Community College system are eagerly anticipating the selection of a new chancellor this week. Meanwhile, the system, like community colleges across the country, experienced significant enrollment declines during the pandemic.

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Liaison International

JANUARY 27, 2023

Through January 1, students submitted nearly 1,080,000 distinct first-year applications overall, compared with about 903,000 during the 2019-2020 academic year, a 20% increase. Researchers focused on 2019-20 data because it was the last year that applications were submitted before the pandemic caused numbers to plummet.)

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Image: The heating at Bronx Community College was restored to most of the campus Monday after not working for over a month. Employees say heating and other infrastructure problems have been a perennial issue at the college and across the City University of New York system. Bronx Community College isn’t alone.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2023

Michigan is making community college free for thousands of people through the new state budget. According to the state, postsecondary education enrollment has risen over 6% since 2019. According to the state, postsecondary education enrollment has risen over 6% since 2019. Still, only 50.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Lennor Johnson, president and superintendent of Imperial Valley College in El Centro, California. Student housing is extremely rare at community colleges in California, although affordable housing is increasingly hard to find. The Harbour, where 800 Orange Coast College students live on campus. Out of the system’s 1.8

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

SUNY Westchester Community College and MDRC, a social policy research organization, released the results of a new study Thursday, which found that students in the college’s student support program enrolled full-time at higher rates and accumulated more credits than their peers. Hide by line?:

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Liaison International

APRIL 20, 2023

Source: Poets & Quants Common Application submissions for Fall 2023 now exceed pre-pandemic numbers The number of students using the Common Application to apply for college admission in the upcoming Fall 2023 semester is 21% higher than the number recorded during the last admissions cycle before the pandemic.

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University Business

JANUARY 6, 2023

Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka has long called for investing in public education, and on Wednesday said the passage of a 2019 education funding reform bill often referred to as the Student Opportunity Act in her first year as president was among her “proudest accomplishments in this office.” Read more on WBUR.

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Liaison International

JUNE 16, 2023

Source: Forbes At community colleges “disengagement increased with distance” Generally speaking, online-only community college students were less likely to engage with other students and faculty than those who had attended at least one in-person class, according to survey results gathered last spring from 83,000 students at almost 200 schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

colleges and universities rose by 1.2%, a minor change where the number of enrollees went from 15,072,249 to 15,248,077. Among the years captured in the report, 2019 to 2022 all faced varying rates of decline, with Fall 2021 being the worst (-3.4%). "We However, numbers are still below what they used to be in 2019, 14.2%

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EAB

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

How to engage more community college prospects amid the “great opt out”. As the number of traditional-aged students continues to decline, community college leaders must focus on enrollment and recruitment strategies within their control. of students saying they relied heavily on a resource, 2019-2022.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 28, 2024

decline in active EMS workers, from over 40,000 in 2019 to only 33,000 in 2022, reported New York State Comptroller Thomas P. For example, in-state community college tuition was around $5,290 in 2023-24. New York experienced a 17.5% DiNapoli in “ The Growing Role of Counties in Emergency Medical Service.”

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In pre-pandemic fall 2019, 80% of community college classes were fully in person, 15% were fully remote and 5% were hybrid, a mix of online and in-person, according to a state report. labor force. Two years later, the numbers were nearly flipped, with 25% of classes in person, 65% remote and 10% hybrid.

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Two big initiatives pushing this change are recent school mergers and a powerful free community college pipeline. Starting this July, Castleton University, Northern Vermont University and Vermont Technical College will consolidate into Vermont State University—a lean, cost-effective hybrid learning machine.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Image: Recently released federal higher education data show community college enrollment trends during the first two years of the pandemic differed based on the age of the students, according to a new analysis by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Colleges employed 3.9 percent from 2020 but still down from more than four million in 2019. Community college employee rolls have continued to shrink. million people in 2022, up 1.75

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year. gain in first-time college students, thanks in part to an 8.9% increase in community college transfer students, NC Newsline reports.

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The PIE News

MAY 9, 2024

Announcing the data, international education expert Earl Blaney questioned whether the approach to provide colleges with the large bulk of allocations over universities was the best one for the Ontario provincial government. Other provinces were originally more forthcoming with their data.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

” Since 2019, Shapiro said, the NSC’s numbers show a combined decline of almost 7.5 “Many institutions are still below their freshman numbers from last year, let alone 2019, and that’s very concerning.” Community Colleges Stop the Free Fall. percent across all higher education sectors.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Arkansas Transfer Achievement Scholarship (ATAS), rolled out in fall 2019, has shown incredible growth, particularly among students from low-income and underrepresented backgrounds, including first-generation students. Participating Colleges. University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville.

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Higher Ed Data Stories

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This week our trade publication, The Chronicle of Higher Education took a quick look at changes in enrollment between Fall, 2019, and Fall, 2020. Something happened in the spring of 2019 that might have had a big effect on college enrollment. If you do, there is no reason you shouldn't be a subscriber. in 2010 to 5.3M

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The State of Higher Education 2022 study , conducted between October 26 and November 17, 2022, highlights the ongoing challenges that have contributed to the sudden decline in college enrollment growth among Hispanic students since the beginning of the pandemic. From 2009 to 2019, Hispanic college enrollment in the U.S.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Community colleges have taken great pride over many decades as an open-door institution welcoming students who had no other place to go. It is not known how many of these students are enrolled in community colleges, but it is likely these students are represented equally to those in universities.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In 2019, the US Department of Education reported that one in every three American high school students participates in dual enrollment courses (Shivji & Wilson, 2019), a number expected to rise in the coming years. Dual credit programs also help students transition from high school to college more efficiently. link] NACEP.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Military friendly is a common phrase used by organizations to communicate an appreciation of military service members (Kirchner, et al., If your community college is struggling to have those conversations, outside facilitators can support you. Dr. Susan M. 2) Who are your military-connected learners and how do you know?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

college enrollment is a lingering concern for both educators and policy makers. College and university student enrollment is down for the third straight year, 7% lower than it was in 2019. Still others, influenced by dangerous myths, are reluctant to attend an open-access institution like a community college.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In 2019, the US Department of Education reported that one in every three American high school students participates in dual enrollment courses (Shivji & Wilson, 2019), a number expected to rise in the coming years. Dual credit programs also help students transition from high school to college more efficiently. link] NACEP.

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