Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Founded in 2005, KPromise gives graduates of the Kalamazoo Public School District scholarships that pay for up to 100% of tuition and fees at any public college or university in Michigan and to 15 private schools. Students of all backgrounds were more likely to enroll, perform well, and persist in college. Byrd and his co-authors, Drs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Baker More than 170,000 residents enrolled in academic courses or registered for adult education and workforce training during the 2023-24 school year, according to the Alabama Community College System (ACCS). Nearly 123,000 of those residents were part of credit-based programs, a 6.2%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Get more information For more on recruiting adult student populations, including graduate students, subscribe to the Professional and Adult Education Blog. Adult learners are diverse because adults are diverse. Listen to the podcast: are you treating student-parents as a liability or asset?

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Blogs Adult learners’ application behavior is changing—here’s how Insights from our new survey of 3,800+ graduate and adult learners As the demographics of prospective graduate students and adult learners change, so do students’ application preferences and behaviors. On average, surveyed students applied to 2.24

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EAB

APRIL 25, 2023

Blogs 4 tactics to reach, recruit, and enroll “stealth shoppers” Insight from our newest research on marketing to graduate and adult students Based on our Office Hours with EAB podcast, Episode 144, How to Engage ‘Stealth Shoppers'. This year, our partners estimated that more like 80% of their prospects are stealth, on average.

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EAB

APRIL 24, 2023

While many institutions follow a robust yield playbook for their undergraduate programs , I’ve found this isn’t always the case for graduate and adult education programs. Yield is also a year-round problem at the graduate level, with many programs admitting students for multiple start dates.

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