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News Roundup
Technical, Trade and Junior Schools Experience Large Declines in Staffing
Post-secondary institutions experienced a decline in staffing last year, according to a new report from the MissionSquare Research Institute. The research titled, “Postsecondary Education Staffing,” analyzed projected workforce levels, current staffing and college enrollment trends. Between January 1999 and January 2020, college and university staff increased by 51%. Due to the impacts of the COVID-19 […]
July 26, 2021
Community Colleges
Survey Reveals Higher Education Stigmas, Job Skills Gap Impact Recent Graduates’ Employment
As the United States faces a student debt crisis—impacting 44.7 million Americans—a new Cengage survey analyzed the value of a postsecondary degree from the perspective of recent community college and four-year institution graduates.
May 25, 2021
COVID-19
Survey: Quarter of Last Year’s High Schoolers Decided to Delay College Plans Due to Pandemic
A survey has found that a quarter of last year’s high school students decided to delay college plans due to the COVID-19 pandemic, WBMA reported. “I want to go to college, but now I’m like man, my life is set. I have this set. I kept on asking the question, do I want to go, […]
April 20, 2021
COVID-19
Students Struggling to Make Ends Meet Given COVID-19’s Impact on Jobs
College students often rely on federal work-study positions and other jobs on and off campus to make ends meet. However, with campuses shut down amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many students have had to look for other sources of income to pay bills. “Across the country, we are seeing many colleges and universities make quick decisions […]
October 2, 2020
Students
10 Concrete Policy Changes PWIs Can Enact to Show Black Lives Matter
As senior leaders prepare for the fall semester, I would like to provide 10 concrete policies and practices that could positively impact the institutional climates for their Black populations.
June 25, 2020
Students
The Economy the Class of 2020 Needs. Both Coronavirus and Climate Change Demand a New Normal.
As we heal from the pandemic and begin to rebuild the economy for today’s graduates, we can not blindly recreate a broken system, but must find the strength and imagination to rethink business as usual. In considering the future for the class of 2020, both coronavirus and climate change demand a new economy – one that is sustainable, equitable, and circular.
May 1, 2020
Students
Stepping Away from the Brink: Part VII: Faculty and The Academy
Faculty, in conjunction with students, represent the core of an academic institution. Without either, colleges and universities don’t have a purpose. It is faculty who provides education, advice, and enlightenment to our next generation of leaders, entrepreneurs, politicians, educators, and hopefully change-makers. However, as higher education continues to find itself on the brink, questions around the appropriate faculty structure remains critical to thinking of the future of institutions.
March 11, 2020
Latest News
Study Focuses on Millennial’s Perceptions of their College Education
Dr. Larry Chiagouris, a professor of marketing at Pace University, recently unveiled his research on how millennials perceive their college education in terms of overall satisfaction and career preparedness.
December 3, 2019
Leadership & Policy
Stepping Away from the Brink – Part IV – The Access and Affordability Challenge
The challenges in higher education are clear. By exploring the two key challenges of access and affordability in higher education in the primary and secondary education industries, cities and states allot the appropriate amount of resources to ensure both.
October 12, 2019
Faculty & Staff
Access as Model: How Students with Intellectual Disabilities Can Improve Higher Education
If higher education programs for people with intellectual disabilities are to work to the fullest extent, students should not be merely included. Higher education should change to mark their valued presence.
September 13, 2019
News Roundup
Craven CC Offers Students Aviation Career Opportunity
This fall, students will be able to pursue a career in aviation through Craven Community College’s (Craven CC) new program. The Aviation Management and Career Pilot program allows students to test their skills on an FAA-approved flight simulator, which can imitate weather patterns, time of day and other obstacles. Students will also learn about flight […]
August 29, 2019
African-American
Research Encourages More Support for Black and Hispanic Male Educational Attainment
There are opportunities for educators and policymakers to improve African-American and Hispanic males’ employment attainment by implementing practices and policies that drive the underrepresented group’s educational persistence and completion, according to new data from the Charles H. Houston Center for the Study of the Black Experience in Education at Clemson University.
April 23, 2019
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