Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

brought innovation, excellence, and inclusion to community colleges. De los Santos, a posthumous recipient of a 2023 Diverse Champions Award, is remembered by colleagues as a great friend, an outstanding mind, and a determined educator who placed access and equity at the center of his work. Alfredo de los Santos Jr.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 25, 2023

Stakeholders have long called for the US government to introduce a national strategy for international education. It was chaired by Jing Luan, Provost Emeritus at the San Mateo Colleges of the Silicon Valley, who has previously lauded the opportunities at community colleges offering unique transfer agreements.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

However, the proposal has also drawn criticism from those who say that the funding is insufficient to make up for years of stagnation under Cuomo and from some who work in New York’s public colleges. “[It] The proposal would also raise tuition at SUNY and CUNY schools, indexed to the Higher Education Price Index or 3%--whichever is less.

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AACC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

September 23, 2022 | Issue # 220 This week, 73 community college representatives were in Washington, DC, for AACC’s Advocates in Action meeting. They also gained insight into how Washington formulates higher education policy. These meeting participants heard from lobbyists, Capitol Hill staff, AACC staff, and more.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Completing my college degree was the path to a better way of life, and I was determined to graduate to experience the socioeconomic benefits a college degree would afford my family. I was a Pell Grant recipient and the first person in my family to attend college, and I knew college graduation was key to providing for my new family.

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University Business

APRIL 9, 2024

Yet, this developing flexibility is underdeveloped in many community colleges where technical and in-person training is staunchly preserved. Competitive strategies include extension workshops that push into a local employer’s training space and then convert employees into college-going, nontraditional students.

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IHEP

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Like many students across the country, Coleen began her journey to a four-year degree at a community college. When I was 18, I realized that I was going to be paying for college on my own and it hadn’t really hit me before, like exactly how much it costs,” Coleen explained. FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTIONS.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Although 80% of students who enroll in community colleges plan on getting a bachelor’s degree, only around 15% do so within six years. You need to have really clear lines of communication [and] consistent understanding of policies and processes to do everything that we wanted to do,” said Roberson.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

.” “The highest-paying jobs in rural areas are in white-collar, blue-collar, and protective services occupations, and blue-collar and protective services occupations are more likely to employ men,” Martin Van Der Werf, report co-author and CEW’s director of editorial and education policy, said in the press release.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2023

Supreme Court eliminated race-conscious admissions policies at the end of June, colleges and universities began preparing for the inevitable blow to their on-campus diversity. After the U.S. So, a press release last week from the University of California (UC) system may have felt like a ray of hope.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

This finding came as a surprise, said report co-author Martin Van Der Werf, director of editorial and education policy for the CEW. Per their criteria for a good job, researchers found that workers in the rural U.S. hold a proportionate share of good jobs – they make up 13% of the U.S. workforce (14.9 million out of 63.3

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

College students have been shown to be likelier to pass courses with race-matched instructors, likelier to receive higher grades in those courses, and likelier to persist in school. Griffin, the dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland. They’re less likely to have consistent office space on campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Supreme Court’s decision to strike affirmative action, there are still ways to get diverse student populations into higher ed, experts and scholars said at a webinar hosted this week by California student success organization The Campaign for College Opportunity. And I don't think that that is the implication of this decision."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. We offer faculty workshops on culturally sensitive teaching.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

The program at Morgan has allowed me to learn specific concepts I didn’t realize were systems within higher education or specific schools of thought,” he noted. I’m able to think about policy development, how higher education policy influences students from various backgrounds.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The study draws on responses from 11 focus groups and an online survey of 1,675 people between the ages of 18 and 30 who decided not to go to college or stopped out of a college program. “What’s making people choose something other than college?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Image: New data from the Lumina Foundation on college degree or credential attainment rates for U.S. The national share of working-age Americans who hold college degrees increased across racial and ethnic groups and rose in all states between 2019 and 2021. adults show both good and bad news. ” The U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

“These new rules crack down on some of the most deceptive practices we see in higher education, such as predatory marketing tactics that target U.S. service members and veterans,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement.

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IHEP

APRIL 5, 2023

It’s also when college access and success advocates step up efforts to ensure the programs that improve college affordability and student outcomes get the support they need. President Biden’s FY24 budget proposal included several much-needed increases in higher education funding.

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ACPA

MARCH 6, 2023

Her recent book, “ Creating Inclusive Online Communities : Practices that Support and Engage Diverse Students ” focuses on how to better support college students in online learning environments. I was initially interested in how youth of color use technology in schools and to prepare for college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

Department of Education works to fix the broken system, it’s time for community college leaders to remind Americans that these important institutions exist. All is not lost if only we embrace the expansive and flexible opportunities offered by our community colleges.

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HESA

APRIL 20, 2023

Ireland trailed most of Europe by ten to fifteen years in massifying its higher education system, and as Ellen notes in our talk, the country’s universities only really gained a research mission at the turn of the millennium. But falling meant the higher education sector could learn from other countries’ success and mistakes.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2023

college or university say their barriers have been to finishing their education over three years. The results come from a study by the Lumina Foundation called “ The State of Higher Education: Breaking down the barriers to student enrollment and retention ” in partnership with Gallup. Courtney Brown 06:21 Yeah.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

A new study by EAB highlights a trend among students who feel unsure about their commitment to college due to growing concerns about affordability, academic success, and mental health preparedness. According to the survey, more than one in five students (22 percent) have decided to opt out of college because they are not mentally ready.

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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

MARCH 28, 2023

Some applicants enter information about their skills, professional experience and educational achievements into an organization’s hiring platform, including information about traditional college degrees and alternative nondegree credentials. “Why do these systems not call for more detailed information?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

Now, a new study from the Community College Research Center at Columbia University has shown that summer Pell has had meaningful benefits, improving retention, attainment, and even earnings up to nine years after college entry for students who received it.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan —though temporarily blocked by a federal court —is a logical starting place for addressing the nation’s crisis of college affordability. Consider the data: no state has a public higher education system with a student body that reflects its demographic profile.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Department of Education also pledged to issue guidance to colleges and universities about what admissions practices remain legal, to release a report on admissions strategies for increasing diversity, to consider collecting and publishing more information on application and enrollment trends, and to help states analyze data that they already have.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But the world of higher education will be listening carefully for what Biden may say about the many issues America’s colleges and universities are facing, several of which have assumed national prominence in recent months. Bumphus, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges, by email.

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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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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

educational policy is a focus on using evidence, or data, to inform decisions about institutional and educator quality, budgetary decisions, and what and how to teach students” (3). 4) I have had the opportunity to redesign the institutional research function at both community colleges and at a public regional university.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Michelle Asha Cooper, deputy under secretary of education, will leave her position to join the Lumina Foundation on Oct. 3 as vice president for public policy and executive director of Lumina’s Washington office. Website Headline: Michelle Cooper Will Leave Education Dept. Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

I’ve been working on finalizing my spring course—Current Issues in Higher Education: Policy and Practice—and I’m really excited about focusing on the following big issues: Concurrent enrollment/dual enrollment/early college. Free community college movement. Basic needs (in)security.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Departments of Education and Justice have published their guidance on the Supreme Court’s race-conscious admissions ruling, offering clarity to colleges and applicants about the post-affirmative action landscape. Kellogg Professor of Community College Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin.

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University Business

MAY 22, 2024

. “This law will make it easier for students pursuing higher education in Colorado to understand the cost of their degree or certificate,” Democratic Rep. One recent report from the Center for Higher Education Policy and Practice found four-year institutions that embrace seamless credit transfers reduce students’ expenses.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2023

A People's History of US Higher Education is sorely needed, not as a purely academic work to gather dust on shelves, or as internet click bait, but as a way to assess how our nation moves forward as a democracy--or as something less. How brutal was college life in those times? To make history, it's helpful to know history.

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