Deans for Impact

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Sitting in on EDUC 1301: Introduction to the Teaching Profession at Odessa College last semester, Pervis Evans is conscious that he doesn’t quite fit in with the other students, a majority of whom are recent high school graduates. But that doesn’t deter him at all.

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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. Joanne Berger-Sweeney – Trinity College (Conn.)

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University Business

APRIL 24, 2023

Most college or university presidents to have recently taken the helm might have had a grasp of their job expectations before the turn of the decade—or even when the pandemic went into full swing. No cohort of presidents might be more familiar with this than those leading small private colleges or universities in the Northeast.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: The Whittier College Board of Trustees was scheduled for a rare in-person meeting this Friday, after conducting most business virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with her address looming, Oubré and her critics have radically different views of what the state of the college is. We’re very proud of that.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

He explained his departure in an open letter, claiming that Dr. Clarence Lang, dean of the College of the Liberal Arts, had refused to follow through on a commitment to hire two new tenure-line faculty. Michael West West will continue to serve as a tenured professor in the department. West resigned Apr.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

So have the changing attitudes toward higher education. It has been, well, an interesting time to be in higher education. 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.

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University Business

JUNE 12, 2023

High school students molded by the pandemic are rejuvenated to experience an in-person college experience again. These are some key takeaways EAB gathered in their latest meta-report that creates a comprehensive picture of higher education’s future college cohort: “Gen P.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While overall enrollments are still down (with about 100,000 students missing from community college since the start of the pandemic), the data show that student mobility has increased, particularly transfers into very competitive or highly selective institutions. Six-year completion rates have also increased.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 7, 2024

Guillory not only brings a wealth of experience as a teacher and scholar grounded in liberal arts, but she also has served at research universities with graduate programs,” said Ford. Guillory will serve as a senior cabinet member and in the administrative office, next in line to Ford. Dr. Monique Guillory “Dr.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

million—and also increased their ranking on the National Science Foundation’s survey of Higher Education of Research and Development Expenditures (HERD) from 42 to 22. ” Steven Tepper – Hamilton College (N.Y.) Colorado College’s L. Song Richardson (Source: The Council of Independent Colleges) L.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Ted Mason, PhD In the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to ban race-conscious admissions in higher education, experts in the field of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) are at a crossroads. Mason serves as associate provost for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Kenyon College in Ohio.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 7, 2024

Guillory not only brings a wealth of experience as a teacher and scholar grounded in liberal arts, but she also has served at research universities with graduate programs,” said Ford. Guillory will serve as a senior cabinet member and in the administrative office, next in line to Ford. Dr. Monique Guillory “Dr.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: Gustavus Adolphus College went 161 years without any graduate programs. Like other small private institutions, Gustavus Adolphus, a Lutheran college in southern Minnesota, faces a shrinking pool of traditional-age students, even ahead of the projected decline in college-age students due to kick in later this decade.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million freshmen enrolled in a college or university last semester, a 4.3 million freshmen who enrolled in 2019, “this is a very promising sign for higher education,” said Doug Shapiro, the research center’s executive director. In 2020, community college enrollment dropped a whopping 10.5

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Image: After a missed bond payment and months of uncertainty, Cazenovia College will close. College officials remained tight-lipped, telling Inside Higher Ed earlier this fall only that “discussions continue to take place” on the outstanding bond payment. Cazenovia defaulted on a $25 million bond payment in October.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Image: When Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University, was speaking at a conference on Catholic higher education last month, she referred to the university, a women’s institution in Washington, D.C., in a way that could also describe many women’s colleges across the country. and Canada.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2023

He earned an associate degree in liberal arts from Orange County Community College, a bachelor’s degree in history from Vassar College, and a Ph.D. The professor studies the flow and migration of people, in particular, how individuals from Latin America came to, worked in, and were recruited to play baseball in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC), an organization made up of four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), is planning to launch a new institute in an effort to increase the number of engineers from underrepresented communities, using a $1.5 million investment from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

OpenAI mastermind Sam Altman and social media pioneer Jason Citron are just a few A-list investors backing Campus, a completely online community college reimagining the two-year experience for students and faculty. At the K12 level, too, online school alternatives are beginning to percolate.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Image: Rising numbers of community college students kept total enrollment across all sectors of higher education flat this spring despite a decline in the largest category of institutions by share of enrollment: public four-year universities. Community college enrollment increased by 2.1

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

However, the report found that while 51% of the 900 respondents from US institutions noted US student study abroad as a future priority, 63% identified international student recruitment as the top priority. International recruitment. If so, we will need to limit our growth in recruiting,” he explained. Photo: ACE.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

And though it would be several more decades until the creation of the hashtag, Mrs. Edith Renfrow Smith was doing just that, widening the field of possibility when she became the first Black woman graduate of Grinnell College in 1937. I recruited myself.” I recruited myself.”

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Safa Zaki, Bowdoin College (Williamstown, Mass.) More from UB: Surprising K12 enrollment declines are trickling up into higher ed Garry W.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Many came to the sleepy village in central Vermont because of the college’s sharp focus on environmental law and policy, as well as its progressive outlook on justice. Now, the only college in Vermont that offers a J.D. He said the college’s innovative restructuring plan and progressive history drew him to the job.

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EAB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

How Carleton College's CTO increased staff diversity in IT. Insights from a conversation with Janet Scannell, CTO at Carleton College. People of Color in Higher Education. Women in Higher Education. More on hiring and recruiting. Higher Ed Job Description Checklist. LatinosinHigherEd.com.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 20, 2022

First, post-traditional students being recruited aggressively by a surprisingly broad swath of colleges and universities. One could argue this trend started with the MOOCs and with OPMs like 2U moving upmarket, if you consider employed white-collar college graduates as post-traditional. Enrollment shifts.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. Just when colleges and universities began to feel that operations were returning to normal, new variants and mutations emerged to upset the apple cart. ” Which educational providers are sanctioned for poor outcomes and low-quality programming? It’s not alone.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 16, 2023

Podcast Highlights The University Learning Goals page on the Villanova website contains searchable student career outcome information from the past five years that can be sorted by college and major. Everything that goes on or informs the University Learning Goals page is shared with the admissions team to help with recruitment.

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Campus Sonar

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It’s not surprising that 72% of college presidents agree or somewhat agree that their institution needs to make fundamental changes in its business models, programming, or other operations ( Inside Higher Ed’s 2023 survey of presidents ). adults, down from 70% in 2013, consider a college education to be very important.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Alphabet Soup - Higher-Education Organizations There are dozens of national, international, and regional organizations supporting higher education. They work on policies and best practices for research and scholarship in higher education. including college and university counselors.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Yesterday I asked my wise and worldly readers to help me figure out how to do concurrent enrollment at scale. I was particularly interested in the credentials expected of the high school teachers who are deputized to teach college classes. Many wrote from other states.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions. The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Students’ experiences in higher education goes far beyond the curriculum in their programs. There may be more opportunities at a research-focused university than a community college or a school more focused on liberal arts. One such opportunity is for students to become involved in research. Benefits and barriers.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This morning I was reading about some really great projects being led by the American Association of Colleges and Universities ( AAC&U ). AAC&U has been a leader in developing strong arguments for liberal arts education. In fact, pathways work very well for students who start at four-year colleges, too.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Students’ experiences in higher education goes far beyond the curriculum in their programs. There may be more opportunities at a research-focused university than a community college or a school more focused on liberal arts. One such opportunity is for students to become involved in research. Benefits and barriers.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

State of Play 2023 The state of higher education seems to live near a precipice, and as we enter a new year, many of us are clinging to the edge. In the final weeks of 2019, I posted what I believed were the eight leading threats to higher education. At the time they were: 1. Market Disturbance 2. News top 5o lists.

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