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Category: Higher Education


Educational Stages, Higher Education

Doubts About Value Are Deterring College Enrollment

March 13, 2024

Via: Inside Higher Ed

Enrollment has been declining in higher education for more than a decade, and the most common explanations in recent years have been lingering effects of the pandemic and a looming demographic cliff expected to shrink the number of traditional-age college […]


Economics&Strategies, Education Strategies, Educational Stages, Higher Education

4 parts of successful college student engagement

March 5, 2024

Via: eCampus News

College student engagement is a critical part of success not just for students, but for the institutions where they learn. When students are engaged in their academics and their campus lives, they are more likely to achieve their goals and […]


Educational Stages, Higher Education

Many Students Don’t Inform Their Colleges About Their Disability. That Needs to Change.

March 1, 2024

Via: Ed Surge

In summer 2012, my life changed. I was a 20-year-old college student with a bright future. I was fearless and ready to take the world by storm. All of my hopes and dreams came crashing down when I began experiencing […]


Educational Stages, Higher Education

How do state appropriations impact graduation rates among underrepresented students?

February 26, 2024

Via: Higher Ed Dive

Past research has linked higher state appropriations with better graduation rates, but it has not established that relationship for students who are underrepresented in higher education, such as Black and Latinx students. The paper — by researchers at the Midwestern […]


Educational Stages, Higher Education

Higher ed is unprepared for GenAI’s impact

February 21, 2024

Via: eCampus News

While three-quarters of higher-education trustees (83 percent), faculty (81 percent) and administrators (76 percent) agree that generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) will noticeably change their institutions in the next five years, community college trustees are more optimistic than their community college […]


Educational Stages, Higher Education

Scholarly Groups Choose Between Speech and Silence on War

February 16, 2024

Via: Inside Higher Ed

When the American Association of University Professors last week called for “an immediate ceasefire and end to the siege of Gaza,” it was just the latest union to endorse the same labor movement statement. But the AAUP isn’t only a […]


Educational Stages, Higher Education

AI Is Disrupting Professions That Require College Degrees. How Should Higher Ed Respond?

February 13, 2024

Via: Ed Surge

The latest wave of AI tools like ChatGPT seem certain to disrupt the workplace in the years ahead — and the most-disrupted professions may be ones that require college degrees. That presents an unprecedented challenge for colleges already struggling to […]


Educational Stages, Higher Education

How Colleges Can Perfect On-Site Interviews

February 8, 2024

Via: Inside Higher Ed

In the competitive landscape of higher education, the recruitment of top-tier leadership is a major cornerstone of institutional success. As we navigate a new era in which skilled professionals are no longer seeking merely a step up in their careers […]


Educational Stages, Higher Education

Students Speak: How We Use Artificial Intelligence

February 1, 2024

Via: EdTech Magazine

College students are the lifeblood of higher education. Everyone in university administration — including in the IT office — knows how valuable it is to truly understand how those students feel, what they want, what they appreciate and what they […]


Educational Stages, Higher Education

University of California won’t allow hiring of undocumented students

January 25, 2024

Via: EdSource

The University of California will not allow the hiring of undocumented students for jobs on its campuses, disappointing students who pushed for the right to be employed without legal status. Allowing those students to work campus jobs would have been […]


Educational Stages, Higher Education

White House, Ed Dept call for ‘bold actions’ to improve student achievement

January 18, 2024

Via: K-12 Dive

In a livestreamed event on Wednesday alongside governors, state education superintendents and the White House domestic policy advisor, U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona called this “a moment of truth in education in our country” with both “big challenges” and “immense […]


Educational Stages, Higher Education

Innovating grading systems in higher ed

January 17, 2024

Via: eCampus News

In the intricate world of academia, establishing a fair, accurate, and secure grading system can pose major challenges. Academic institutions, especially law schools, juggle various responsibilities to ensure the equity of grading distributions, maintain the security of student data, and […]


Educational Stages, Higher Education

Writing a College Essay That Stands Out

December 8, 2023

Via: Ed Surge

As the college essay program manager for Write the World, a nonprofit writing organization for teens, I oversee a group of advisers who guide students through the essay writing process. I have seen firsthand the anxiety that students experience when […]


Educational Stages, Higher Education

College officials considering mergers need to have sufficient resources

October 27, 2023

Via: Higher Ed Dive

Mergers and consolidations are important tactics that many colleges should consider in the face of significant declines in enrollment, massive excess capacity and the coming enrollment cliff beginning in 2025, when the college-age population is expected to dramatically drop. Unfortunately, […]


Educational Stages, Higher Education

How a community college attracted more older students to college

October 26, 2023

Via: eCampus News

Colorado’s community colleges have struggled to enroll older adults since the start of the pandemic, but several schools have been able to work against that trend by helping them with their busy lives. For example, Pueblo Community College leaders have […]


Educational Stages, Higher Education

California passed a flurry of higher education laws. Here’s what they’ll do.

October 24, 2023

Via: Higher Ed Dive

California Gov. Gavin Newsom gave his legislative pen a workout this month, signing several higher education bills into law prior to this session’s Oct. 14 deadline. Legislative changes in California can have ripple effects on the higher education world, as […]


Educational Stages, Higher Education

New Barriers for Community Colleges

October 20, 2023

Via: Inside Higher Ed

Higher education is still reeling from the Supreme Court decision in June that ended affirmative action. While affirmative action has often been discussed in the context of exclusive universities—like Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—the Supreme […]


Educational Stages, Higher Education

What makes students choose your institution?

October 9, 2023

Via: eCampus News

The leading deciding factor for parents and students when making their college decision was academic quality, followed by cost and financial aid, according to two new independent surveys from enrollment marketing experts Spark451, a Jenzabar Company. Thousands of high school […]


Educational Stages, Higher Education

Higher education must innovate to meet students’ needs

October 5, 2023

Via: eCampus News

Higher education must innovate to keep up with the evolving economy, students’ financial constraints and the need for greater public trust in the sciences, National Academy of Sciences president Marcia McNutt said Tuesday in a speech at Oregon State University. […]


Educational Stages, Higher Education

What qualities do college leaders need to lead major institutional restructuring?

September 29, 2023

Via: Higher Ed Dive

News of college closures and budgetary challenges faced by even large institutions speaks to the increasing pressures on U.S. higher education and highlights that its business model needs fixing. These stressors require that many of our colleges and universities make […]