Tag: enrollment

August 2, 2023

In addition to demolishing withered facilities, schools are finding themselves taking a sledgehammer to something else in light of the pandemic: building improvement plans themselves. “They’ve had to revisit the size of their portfolio and facilities” for school construction projects, […]

April 24, 2023

The University of Arizona’s undergraduate enrollment has increased in recent years, bucking the declines experienced by many colleges throughout the U.S. For the Tucson region, the university’s home, that upward trend is key. Higher education institutions are “the most important” […]

November 22, 2022

The recent decline in college enrollment across the country cannot be pinned on a single factor, but rather it represents the accumulated effect of multiple interconnected problems. With ongoing perceptions of mistrust in the efficacy of higher education, rising higher […]

July 19, 2022

The University of California is seeking to add more than 20,000 students by 2030 and plans to get there by expanding online and summer programs and by concentrating growth at certain campuses, including Merced and Riverside. Those details are included […]

June 30, 2022

The limitations of the term “Asian American” are often discussed, given that it can refer to some 50 ethnic groups. The report’s researchers tried to break down the data to demonstrate the different outcomes and challenges faced by Californians of […]

June 20, 2022

For the last seven years, I have taught a course on analytics at the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Graduate School of Business. Every day, my students and I talk about how major companies and startups use business intelligence and analytics […]

January 20, 2022

The U.S. Education Department announced new grants under the American Rescue Plan and also provided new guidance on how colleges can use American Rescue Act funds to meet students’ basic needs. The grants are $198 million to support colleges and […]

December 9, 2021

A group of 20 community colleges across eight states will receive grants from the Lumina Foundation to increase enrollment of adult learners. The goal of the initiative is to help colleges put strategies in place to engage and enroll older […]

October 1, 2021

Last March, a wave of change rolled through universities across the world. Students were sent home for virtual coursework, and college campuses were shut down indefinitely. At a time where college enrollment rates were already on the decline, the pandemic […]

August 9, 2021

With over 600,000 fewer students enrolled in spring of 2021, higher education is continuing to see decreases in enrollment from the impact of COVID-19. Although the certifications and technical degrees that community colleges offer are in high demand, these facilities […]

July 19, 2021

The state’s legislature, concerned with college affordability, in 2007 passed a bill that tied public institutions’ tuition increases on in-state resident undergraduates to the consumer price index. Colleges could ask Missouri’s Coordinating Board for Higher Education to waive this limit, […]

May 14, 2021

ACE asked similar questions of U.S. adults in 2017 and 2019. Across the three surveys, the share of respondents grew who think the U.S. should encourage more international students to study there as a way to bolster the country. But […]

April 13, 2021

Enrollment at community colleges continued its downward slide this semester, according to the latest report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Enrollment fell by 9.5 percent since last spring, replicating registration data from fall 2020 and representing the steepest […]

March 9, 2021

One of Ian McKeown’s favorite assignments last spring was to go to the grocery store, buy some wine, make a meal and write about it. Like many culinary students around the country, McKeown suddenly found himself baking and butchering in […]

December 11, 2020

The University of Vermont grabbed headlines recently with a number: 27. The figure represents an eye-popping one-fifth of the College of Arts and Sciences’ academic programs, which are on the chopping block as the economic fallout of the coronavirus ravages […]

January 20, 2016

Tennessee has launched an advertising blitz with billboards, commercials, and postcards encouraging adults to go back to school, touting the good example they could set for their children as part of a $1 million statewide initiative. The Tennessean reports the […]

November 13, 2015

This First Look is a revised version of the preliminary report released on July 23, 2015. It includes fully edited and imputed data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) fall 2014 collection, which included three survey components: Institutional […]