University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bolstered by state and national workforce needs and their promising return on investment, the STEM track represents a gold mine for colleges and universities that want to ensure credentials from their institution are providing students with good job prospects and gainful employment.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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University Business

JULY 27, 2023

New data on first-year students’ persistence and retention rates is the latest example of higher education finally overcoming the pandemic’s influence. National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s 2023 Persistence and Retention report concludes that first-year students in fall 2021 had a 75.7% since 2012.

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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. We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We

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University Business

MARCH 1, 2023

News Best Colleges rankings may be growing to include entire universities, but what these schools will do to market themselves effectively remains unanswered. Now, Colorado College and Rhode Island School of Design are among the first schools offering undergraduate programs to break up with U.S. Berkeley and Georgetown, followed suit.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Furman University and 14 other institutions have collectively been awarded $8.625 million to improve inclusion for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Furman will receive $931,600 of the $8.625.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 25, 2023

Researchers at Christopher Newport University (CNU) have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to explore how gender, race/ethnicity, and social identity impact STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) faculty experiences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Dr. Gilda Barabino Olin College of Engineering "Our use of AI in our teaching can be seen both as a threat to how students acquire foundational knowledge, but it can also be an enabler to enhance student learning,” said panelist Dr. Gilda A. Barabino, president of the Olin College of Engineering. These new AI tools.

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University Business

APRIL 15, 2024

Colleges and universities must create more robust data networks to efficiently analyze their graduates’ occupational outcomes and ensure that more of their credentials can serve today’s high-growth industries, declares an inaugural report from the Strada Education Foundation, an education company focused on increasing upward mobility.

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PeopleAdmin

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Read on for some key takeaways Trend 1: Focus on Recruitment Marketing Focus Ircka West, Solution Engineer at PeopleAdmin, kicked off the discussion with the importance of recruitment marketing. He emphasized the importance of performance management and impactful performance evaluations as a retention tool.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2024

Complete College America makes a case for a shift in higher education funding formulas. The goal of virtually all colleges and universities is to increase retention and completion. While performance-based funding has brought increases in retention and completion, it has not had the desired effect.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2023

While many of us know by now that lecture alone is incongruent with student learning, didactic lecture remains the dominant form of teaching in college classrooms. Dr. Yunteng He is a chemistry instructor at Central Community College in Kearney, NE. College Teaching, 67 (1), 70–72. References He, Y. link] He, Y.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2023

While many of us know by now that lecture alone is incongruent with student learning, didactic lecture remains the dominant form of teaching in college classrooms. Dr. Yunteng He is a chemistry instructor at Central Community College in Kearney, NE. College Teaching, 67 (1), 70–72. References He, Y. link] He, Y.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MAY 21, 2024

Organic SEO Drives Tangible Results in Higher Ed When it comes to marketing strategies in higher education, search engine optimization (SEO) often sits quietly in the back of the classroom, patiently raising its hand while flashier tactics like social media and email campaigns hog the spotlight.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

To this end, we provide P-12 educators; college/university faculty, administrators, and staff; and other education stakeholders a blueprint to collaboratively work with Black males through a culturally responsive lens. The career academy as a vehicle to promote Black male student interest in STEM college and career pathways.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Blogs Navigating Privacy Controls with Google Analytics 4 (GA4) By Adnan Sosic Adnan Sosic serves as the Director of Marketing Analytics in EAB’s Agency team, focused on helping colleges and universities design audience centric and action oriented.edu content strategy. To configure data retention controls in GA4, follow these steps: 1.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MAY 7, 2024

Discover How to Increase College Enrollment Institutions of all shapes and sizes are concerned about enrollment numbers, and for good reason. Your institution can still attract and retain students by using creative ways to increase college enrollment. Additionally, the number of young Americans is declining.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 3, 2023

And colleges struggle to deliver what employers want. Three studies on alternative credentials were published recently, and all point to employers’, colleges’ and students’ confusion about microcredentials. ” This dynamic presents challenges and opportunities for colleges. But there is good news, too.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 11, 2023

Drawing from his experience of working with more than 2,500 leaders at various colleges and universities across the US., Amrit discusses the most effective ways in which schools can engage with students and alumni and how to define specific tactics and priorities that will improve enrollment and retention.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2023

The University of Phoenix has proven itself, through strikingly low graduation and retention rates, to be unsuccessful at helping students reach their educational goals, anathema to what we do here,” University of Arkansas in Fayetteville’s faculty senate wrote in a Mar. In 2022, UA created nonprofit Transformative Education Services Inc.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Morgan State University, the largest of Maryland’s four historically Black colleges and universities, is thriving. Retention efforts Morgan State is currently number one in the United States in producing Black electrical engineers and civil engineers, Wilson notes. This requires thoughtful retention efforts.

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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. But not all English faculty members are hopeless about the future of the discipline. million Andrew W.

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University Business

APRIL 19, 2024

Three college administrators—including one president—will be coordinating goodbye parties at their current institutions as they prepare to move on to bigger opportunities elsewhere. Stephenson is currently the president of Northwest Florida State College, a community college. The former engineer proved a natural as president.

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PeopleAdmin

JANUARY 5, 2023

In our December webinar, Navigating HigherEd Hiring and Retention , PeopleAdmin Solution Engineer Ircka West, a former adjunct professor, spoke about her experience applying for roles in HigherEd. When faculty have a balanced workload and feel heard during the course assignment process, you can impact retention across campus.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

million through the Driving Change initiative , a project that supports building more inclusive learning environments in the subjects of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in higher education. Six universities will each receive $2.5 University of Maryland Eastern Shore. University at Albany.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College. In July, Agnes Scott College launched the Acknowledging our Past: Acting Now for a Transformed Future project, which aims to elevate the lives and stories of the people of color who built the college. Multicultural Mentorship — Augustana College.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Projects addressed topics such as annual giving, student retention, professional and continuing education, academic program planning, and more. Scroll down to read about each of the capstone projects in the fellows’ own words. The blog posts below are written by the participants to showcase their project and early outcomes.

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eLiterate

DECEMBER 1, 2022

It turns out that only top-tier universities take advantage of the opportunity to recruit international students at a time when more of the world is looking for a US college degree. Community College international student sources, from IEE. It should be a fun conversation.

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Liaison International

MAY 16, 2023

Nearly as many (49%) said access to information about “trending behaviors” would have the same effect, and 48% said access to data-driven insights about enrollment and retention data would dramatically improve their performance outcomes. million); some college (up 76.5% million); some college (up 76.5% million in 2005 to 2.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

In 2020, as the nation contended with the pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests across the country, many historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) saw an uptick in interest and applications. The number of applications to FAMU from first-time college students increased 87% from 2021 to 2022.

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IHEP

MAY 1, 2024

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona didn’t always know where to turn for help in college. “It It wasn’t always easy to know where to go if I needed advice on what classes to take, what to declare for my major, how to get financial aid,” Cardona shared in a keynote at last week’s Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit.

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University Business

APRIL 30, 2023

People are continuously questioning the purpose of obtaining a college degree, as well as its benefits. For example, a student who enrolls in a university to study engineering discovers that they dislike the subject and transfers to another school. Retention rates are changed one student at a time.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 5, 2023

High school students with autism are attending college in greater numbers, thanks to new ac ademic and emotional support services designed specifically for them. Today there are approximately 75 support programs offered for neurodiverse students in 29 states, mostly at four-year colleges.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This combined approach has helped with greater retention, completion and student satisfaction. Key Initial Goals for Diane Chase at the University of Houston Moving the needle on academic metrics, such as first-year to second-year retention rate and four-year to six-year graduation rates, are Chase’s top student success-related goals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

State College. From 1979 to 1985, as associate dean of the Ohio State Graduate School, she worked to increase federal support for minorities and women to enter nontraditional fields such as engineering and mathematics.

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

The unemployment rate for English majors was 2.3%, which is near that of all college graduates and those on different academic paths. for business, engineering and philosophy majors, and 1.9% Graduate degree earners, regardless of their major, reached a peak median earning of $86,000, which is only about a 3.6%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

who recently appeared on a panel sponsored by Diverse at the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in San Francisco. The THRIVE Index will help UVM set realistic goals, ones that put just as great an emphasis on the retention of diverse students, faculty and staff, as well as their recruitment.

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