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New CPE, NASH partnership to help support colleges and universities serving displaced students
State and national education organizations are coming together to launch a community of practice to support Kentucky colleges and universities that serve students who have been displaced by crises in their home countries. The Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) is partnering with the National Association of System Heads (NASH) to provide a forum to share…
Read MoreBlack students in America need wholesale higher education reforms
From admissions to outreach and student data collection, the undergraduate journey must be reviewed to narrow unacceptable social and educational inequalities, say Kim Hunter Reed and Ray Belton
Read MoreIntersystem Transfer: Supporting Our Students in Wisconsin | Inside Higher Ed
The University of Wisconsin System places a high priority on improving baccalaureate completion rates, closing the opportunity gap for minoritized students and minimizing the financial and other barriers to degree attainment for all students regardless of where they begin their college career. In a collaborative attempt to remove transfer barriers for Wisconsin students, the UW…
Read MoreThe Emerging Role of Public Higher Education Systems in Advancing Transfer Student Success
A useful and overlooked tool for scaling transfer student success and creating more seamless transfer experiences across multiple institutions. The struggles and poor outcomes of transfer students have been well-established in this blog, as well as the broader literature, and need not be restated here. “Fixes” often focus on helping a prototypical student transfer vertically…
Read MoreDemanding Times for System Heads
If there’s a new “hot seat” in higher-education administration, it might burn hottest at the top. The job of public-college system head has seen a string of abrupt departures, board battles, and contentious searches. Last month, for example, Melody Rose resigned as chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education after less than two years on the…
Read MoreUS university systems are key to boosting access and completion
Systems have the data to track students, the leverage to facilitate collaboration and the authority to create transfer policies, says Nancy L Zimpher The US’ higher education delivery system is leaky at best. We are seeing record declines in enrolment due to a number of societal and economic factors, including rhetoric that questions the value…
Read MoreThe Learning Imperative (opinion)
Public university systems should invest in training and support for quality teaching, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez and Penny MacCormack write. As the pandemic hits the two-year mark and higher education takes full stock of its impact, the challenges we face are multiple—but so are the opportunities. We face the largest enrollment decline in a decade.…
Read More‘Making it’ in the US: education and employment for Afghan refugees
With war and displacement atop most news agendas right now, higher education has a huge part to play in the US’ national response When the United States pulled out of Afghanistan this past summer, tens of thousands of refugees fled ahead of the Taliban. Many of them ended up in the US, where they will…
Read MoreWhy establishing residency for in-state college tuition is so challenging
If picking a college comes down to the financial bottom line, then an in-state public school is often the best deal. “In-state tuition is half to two-thirds lower than out-of-state,” said Mark Kantrowitz, author of “How to Appeal for More College Financial Aid.” Since the start of the pandemic, students and their families are increasingly…
Read MoreWhy choosing between public and private college based on tuition can be a mistake
Picking the right college has increasingly become a question of cost. But not everyone is choosing the most economical option. Since the start of the Covid pandemic, college enrollment has continued to sink. For the most part, community colleges are the hardest hit, followed by public four-year colleges, according to a report by the National…
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