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Study finds true faculty diversity is possible by 2050

Inside Higher Ed

Image: College and universities will need to diversify their faculties at about 3.5 Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication and information science at Cornell University; Neil A. Hope, assistant professor of psychology at North Carolina State University. population in terms of race by 2050.

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Alphabet Soup

Susquehanna President's Blog

AAC&U – American Association of Colleges and Universities – this is the organization that focusses on liberal-arts education across higher education with an emphasis on enhancing the quality of teaching and learning and advocacy on the power of a liberal education.

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Questions remain after release of new Pell Grant regulations

Inside Higher Ed

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. ” Same Standards.

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Leveraging PEP and EMI Data to Improve Institutional Value and Student ROI: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 173 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Michael Itzkowitz

The Change Leader, Inc.

Now, there is a new analysis based on the Federal government’s College Scorecard that ranks 4,000 higher education institutions, providing prospective students with a clear and detailed view of their earning potential with specific majors, from which colleges and universities, and how quickly graduates pay off their loans.

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A state's plan to calculate the "economic value" of a degree

Inside Higher Ed

Janine Davidson, president of Metropolitan State University of Denver, said that given the state’s declining higher ed enrollment, shortage of teachers and health-care workers , and a budget crisis caused by decades of state disinvestment , placing a numeric value on degree programs seems like a low priority.

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College Enrollment: Cliffs, Shifts, and Lifts

WCET Frontiers

While it is true that the overall enrollment of high school graduates in colleges and universities is dropping, enrollments are also shifting away from small, private institutions and for-profit institutions to larger, public, non-profit schools. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), higher education in the U.S.

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