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Texas moves toward tying community college funds to outcomes

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Image: State funding for Texas community colleges, long distributed based mostly on student credit hours, would reward institutions for helping students transfer, graduate and move into high-demand fields under a new model proposed by a state commission.

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Dashboard tracks student success programs in Texas

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The Texas Student Success Program Inventory (TX SSPI) features 244 student success programs from 74 public institutions in Texas, including program details, eligibility criteria, funding sources and outcomes. The database: The SSPI began about a year ago, using CARES Act dollars to fund the inventory, Strother explains.

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Course helps students manage stress, anxiety and depression

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The “remedy”: Developed with grant funding from the university’s Teaching and Learning Transformation Center, the one-credit course is called U SAD? The only assignments are written reflections based on learned skills. Student Success Editorial Tags: Student Success Image Source: Sarah L.

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Report: Colleges face disincentives to improving transfer

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Colleges also have overly cumbersome, expensive processes for evaluating students’ past credits and are often subject to state funding models that do little to encourage better practices. It notes that state funding models generally offer little incentive to colleges and universities to better serve transfer students.

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Dual enrollment can be costly for community colleges

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Heightened Costs The paper, which is based on an analysis of IPEDS cost data, shows that various factors can make dual-enrollment courses more costly than other classes. The paper also details how widely funding structures for dual-enrollment programs vary across states.

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Temple University president resigns

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He also launched an effort to rank off-campus housing based on safety features. But as public safety concerns and other problems have persisted, a Temple News survey last week found that 92 percent of students disapproved of the president’s performance, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

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It's (past) time to rethink the credit hour (opinion)

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A number of competency-based education (CBE) programs are now flourishing, offering alternatives to time-measured credit hours and flexibility to working adults to earn CBE degrees by starting shorter programs outside the traditional semester schedule and demonstrating mastery of program competencies at their own pace. Credit hours.

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