University Business

APRIL 19, 2024

Stephenson is currently the president of Northwest Florida State College, a community college. A tenured community college leader, Stephenson has 15 years of experience serving institutions across Alabama, Missouri and Kentucky, Tampa Bay Times reports.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The enormous potential of transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions presents a ray of hope among the pandemic-related enrollment declines, which have particularly affected students from marginalized backgrounds. On average, these students transferred in with 61.5 credits and received $4.5

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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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Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Lorain County Community College is the community’s college, providing pathways to rewarding careers in all fields, including liberal arts and the humanities. Bill Burges, the fund honors the memory of his wife Charlene Moskal-Burges, a powerful force for good who was dedicated to improving her communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Researchers also found that of the students who transferred to a four-year school from a community college, liberal arts majors were significantly more likely than non-liberal arts majors to change their major (82.0% Yet, these climbs did not outweigh continuing transfer student declines.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But at the beginning of this new fall semester, colleges across the country are reporting big turnarounds. Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year.

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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. However, when the world attacks “liberal arts” they tend to point to specific disciplines as no longer relevant or meaningful.

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University Business

APRIL 3, 2024

Nearly 50% of Sterling College’s 2018 graduates earned their degree without accruing any debt. Eight other small liberal arts schools are currently designated four-year federal work colleges. Among them are: Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes (Ky.) Berea College in Berea (Ky.)

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Establishing a Substrate Historically, Michigan’s transfer infrastructure rested on individual articulation agreements between its constitutionally autonomous community and tribal colleges, public universities, and independent colleges and universities, creating a patchwork of arrangements that varied widely from region to region.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

The report takes a deeper look at the issues facing three particular sectors: community colleges, regional public universities and nonselective private nonprofit colleges. a group of community colleges teaming up, but not merging, to increase their impact. 8, at 2 p.m. Eastern.

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University Business

APRIL 16, 2024

Willamette University, a private liberal arts college in Oregon, experienced an enrollment uptick in 2021 following abysmal rates in 2019. While the university credits much of this increase to the merger with a nearby arts college, the university also experienced a high rate of enrollment from community college transfers.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Aside from his steady hand as interim president, Rhodes is well known for his successful stint as the chancellor of the Austin Community College District (ACC), which grew to 11 campuses and experienced a 168% uptick in the number of degrees earned by students under his leadership, according to the university system.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

community colleges combined. Community colleges serve 6.2 In effect, they can receive a free liberal arts education and all the resources and opportunities it provides. And yet Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia received more mentions in The New York Times and The Washington Post than all 1,043 U.S.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

One Michigan State University freshman majoring in journalism began his journey as a transfer from a local community college, which Michigan Reconnect paid for. Dan Doerger, director of workforce innovation at UH Community Colleges, believes such an opportunity may be just the tip of the iceberg.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Image: Campus leaders at Vassar College are on a mission to bring community college students to liberal arts institutions. The courses are co-taught by Vassar and community college faculty. Building more bridge programs “would be such a win-win,” she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

She possesses an associate degree earned in her early 20’s from her local community college. The plight of the place-bound student and the existence of education deserts offer another compelling equity-based argument for expansion of the community college baccalaureate degree. Lawrence A. Roughly 6% to 12% of the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. They develop college-level writing and synthesis skills in an applied context, with the unwritten rules of the various workplaces revealing themselves over time and through comparison. In senior administration, you’re forced by circumstance to be more fox than hedgehog.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

A good liberal arts education should make us do that. And maybe, just maybe, I provided a better liberal arts education in Qatar than I thought. ” Indeed, a good liberal arts education should make us struggle. Both professor and student alike. His personal website is www.davidsbusch.com.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Over the last few weeks, I have been in several conversations about the impact of career focused education on the liberal arts. This framing reveals deeply held biases about what qualifies as liberal arts (and therefore a quality degree) which are pervasive in higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

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 Some sectors saw marginal increases; enrollment at community colleges, for instance, grew by 0.4 and 2 percent. and 2 percent.

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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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University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

. “If used appropriately, AI can do some of the things we pay college consultants to do.” ” More from UB: Presidents corner: How can courage breathe new life into a classic liberal arts education? The University of North Texas and Reynolds Community College (Va.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

in educational administration (higher education leadership) from Indiana State University; a Master of Liberal Arts in African American studies from Temple; a Master of Science in Education in educational psychology and guidance (college student personnel) from EIU; a B.A. Williams-Goliday holds a Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

Hector Balderas , attorney general of New Mexico, has been chosen as president of Northern New Mexico College. Patrena Benton Elliott , vice president of instruction and student support services at Robeson Community College, in North Carolina, has been appointed president of Halifax Community College, also in North Carolina.

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Continuous Learning Institute

JULY 28, 2023

If you were to create a chart that looked at the number of students who are transferring and going on and earning a bachelor's degree for a community college setting, it is inversely related to the age of your students. He has worked directly with over 50 colleges and universities and has trained well over 5,000 educators.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean A number of terrific tidbits have come in over the last week or so, most of which are directly relevant to student success. That can certainly be true, but Morgan State has found that liberal arts degrees can hold real appeal, too.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. He notes: – If your kid attends a community college, they're going to take Introduction to Philosophy with me, a doctored and published professor, with (blessedly) hours of graduate training in pedagogy. He’s a philosophy professor and a dean.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

How a Small College Overcame Student List Source Volatility with Cappex Candidates Small Private College in the Midwest with 1,000+ Undergraduate Students About Students were forced to forego standardized testing in favor of social distancing after the onset of the pandemic.

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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. Latino, African American, and sports history. He is a professor of history at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. in history from the University of Michigan.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Last weekend we drove to UMD to visit The Girl and catch a basketball game. Wise and worldly readers who teach in liberal arts fields, how do you handle conversations like these with students like these?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Last week, Sara Goldrick-Rab amplified a tweet from Ricky Shabazz that caught my eye. Apparently, the California State University Academic Senate recently passed a resolution imploring the state Legislature to block community colleges from offering bachelor’s degrees.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. – “Tuition guarantee - 3 yrs for community college, 6 yrs for undergraduate - rule of thumb is to add 50% of the expected time to complete, so it could be applied to trade certificates and other non-degree programs. Includes tuition and fees.”

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University Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Over the next five years, New College of Florida plans to become the best liberal arts college in America. Heavier than the crown is the price tag: The newly revamped conservative college , home to fewer than 1,000 students, is seeking $400 million, according to a business plan released last week.

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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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MindMax

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Real results: When MindMax implemented a personalized summer enrollment marketing strategy for a private liberal arts university, the summer enrollment outreach response increased from 17% to 43%, earning the university an additional $800,000.

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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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