Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 10, 2024

Department of Education recently awarded a five-year, $3 million grant to California State University, Northridge, to increase the participation of underrepresented students and address equity gaps in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and arts fields. All of the involved institutions are HSIs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2023

Rohdin has been appointed vice president for enrollment management at LaGuardia Community College in New York. Rohdin has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Fordham University and an M.P.A. from Baruch College.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million freshmen enrolled in a college or university last semester, a 4.3 Freshman enrollment was up across all higher education sectors, with the greatest growth coming from community colleges, which gained 42,000 first-year students since last fall, an increase of 6.1 While the number still remains well below the 2.49

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

The state awarded $18 million each to six regional collaboratives consisting of at least one K-12 school district, University of California campus, California State University campus, and community college district. Zarate believes that this will particularly benefit students who are the first in their families to attend college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). We are an affordable institution.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Michael McKay, biblical theology John Tarwater, finance Felisha Younkin, psychology Nina Sekerak, chemistry Colby College Justin Becknell, environmental studies Sarah Braunstein, English and creative writing Nadia El-Shaarawi, global studies Jay Sibara, women’s, gender and sexuality studies Arisa White, English and creative writing Nora Youngs, (..)

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer Millions of community college students are pursuing their higher education journeys right now. Many aspire to transfer to a four-year college or university. Now that we can look at data from the fall 2017 cohort, we see just three percent of community college transfer students enrolled at selective schools.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Sean Burke , associate provost of Luther College, in Iowa, has been selected as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Alma College, in Michigan. Richmond Hill , interim provost of the Woodbridge campus of Northern Virginia Community College, has been named to the position on a permanent basis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 27, 2023

After two years of COVID-19-related disruptions, the percentage of first-time college students sticking with school has returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC). That’s what worries me and many community college leaders the most.”

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Diversifying Our Curing Community (DOCC) Arkansas State University College of Science and Mathematics DOCC seeks to increase the number of under-represented students accepted into medical schools. Biomedical Sciences Enrichment Program: Mentorship and Workforce Development Charles R.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Community college chatbots need to understand a wide range of academic subjects, courses, and student queries. College settings foster collaborative learning environments, where students engage in dynamic discussions and group activities. The motive behind the use of bots is to defraud colleges and universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Community Colleges Stop the Free Fall. One bright spot came in the sector hit hardest by the pandemic: community colleges. percent since fall 2021, a significant improvement over the nearly 10 percent decline community colleges suffered in both 2019 and 2020. Some new trends emerged as well.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

” It goes on, “Even a few decades ago, no one could have fully anticipated future investments in computer science, quantum computing, or climate science—fields where Princeton is now a leader.” ” Is Princeton truly a leader in these fields?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 8, 2023

His first concern is the potential for a diminution of status among elite institutions, brought on by universities prioritizing labor force-friendly majors such as computer science and engineering over the humanities and social sciences. ” What does Cowen worry about when he worries about higher ed?

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Community college chatbots need to understand a wide range of academic subjects, courses, and student queries. College settings foster collaborative learning environments, where students engage in dynamic discussions and group activities. The motive behind the use of bots is to defraud colleges and universities.

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The PIE News

MAY 4, 2023

What more can regional-level institutions, community colleges, private institutions, etc. The most popular majors for international students were computer science, second language learning (in a language other than English), and business administration and management. do to attract international students?”

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Today's Learner

APRIL 17, 2024

My concern is that students will spend more time attempting to circumvent the system than learning the content and for college students who are taking a fully online class, observing students during their writing exercises can of course be challenging. This encourages them to apply theoretical knowledge to real-world challenges.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

That high-performing Black and Hispanic students are far less likely to earn a college degree than comparable white or Asian American students. That the main contributor to college’s rising college costs isn’t the cost of instruction, which has stagnated.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. One is a computer science major on the cusp of graduation; he’s worried about the abrupt shift in the market for tech workers in the wake of layoffs at the Amazons of the world. He’s in his final undergraduate year, on track to graduate in May.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

All of our divisions and our colleges are now appointing DEI leads and liaisons who are going to work with their vice president or deans around some part of our commitment to inclusion and equity and also convene with each other to set the university strategy moving forward.” An initiative that began during the pandemic is pulse surveys.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Colleges are under growing pressure to prove their value to students, parents, legislators and others. Itzkowitz: Over the past year, we’ve seen an uptick in students and families wanting to know what type of return on investment they’re going to get from the college education.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Blogs Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s Students are no longer entering college with the same levels of academic preparation that we might have expected before the pandemic, one of the many ripple effects we face as a result of disruptions in high school learning.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

Blogs Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s Students are no longer entering college with the same levels of academic preparation that we might have expected before the pandemic, one of the many ripple effects we face as a result of disruptions in high school learning.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

We’ve invested in Public Health, Addiction Studies, and expanded our portfolio of nursing programs to create pathways from community college to the doctorate in nursing practice. All of these are growth areas and all of them are directly responsive to future workforce needs.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

62% of students surveyed worry little (or not at all) about their college being targeted by cybersecurity breaches or cyberattacks, even though they could jeopardize their personal data. 19 to 27 by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse with support from Kaplan. Cyberbreaches shut down campuses.” Focus on Connectivity.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Undergraduate enrollment across all undergraduate sectors is beginning to steady, remedying the sharper declines colleges have experienced before the pandemic, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The data represents the most recent figures from fall 2022 enrollment. slip is relatively minute. “It

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Image: It might seem an unenviable position to succeed a long-standing, widely admired college president who is credited with practically building the institution. ” An edited transcript of the interview with Sheares Ashby, former dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University, follows.

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University Business

MARCH 10, 2023

In July 2022, more than 500 tech and education leaders issued a call to action advocating for the expansion of computer science education opportunities for students. Now, what we thought was the technology of the future is right at our fingertips, and it’s being used in America’s classrooms.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

Image: Last week, the Louisiana State Police Cyber Crime Unit tipped off five institutions—the University of New Orleans, River Parishes Community College, Nunez Community College, Southern University at Shreveport and Louisiana State University Agricultural Center—that their networks had possibly been compromised.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

Twenty-four years later, stakeholders are still seeing evidence of community colleges expanding their role in school reform, especially in the State of Missouri. These agencies consist of high schools, a state technical college, community colleges, four-year institutions, two state agencies and career centers.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

00:45:49] Drumm McNaughton: And it’s a great revenue stream for the college as well, or the university as well, because had you not been having folks coming in and staying there, these buildings would possibly remain empty for the entire summer. [00:46:04] Our computer science program, very similar, over a 4.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The list would certainly include test-optional admissions, tuition resets, increasing discount rates, student loan abatement and proposed loan forgiveness, the decade-long enrollment decline, the hype surrounding AI and ChatGPT, and the controversies surrounding college rankings, not to mention the upcoming U.S. percent over 2021.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computer science department to be thinking about such things. The focus of NEI will be on majors such as computer science and business, and eventually, broader areas of engineering and design. First, the tiers became classes.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 23, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer This post continues our City University of New York miniseries about a set of projects, collectively known as A2B , that are reducing barriers to associate’s to bachelor’s (vertical) transfer within the system of seven community colleges and 13 senior colleges. The SIS also contains 1.6

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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. In this podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with the person who generated and crunched these numbers, Michael Itzkowitz , president of the HEA Group and former director of the College Scorecard under President Obama.

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University Business

MAY 16, 2023

Under a bill, community college students in Illinois would be assured that class credits related to their chosen major in certain fields of study will be transferable to all public colleges and universities in the state. SB 2288 would grant course parity under all majors, which are in areas from computer science to theatre arts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We found a further decline in the number of undergraduate students enrolled at colleges and universities this year,” said Dr. Doug Shapiro, executive director of the Clearinghouse Research Center. While community colleges saw a.5% at community colleges and 3.9% million students. at public four-year institutions.

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