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Report: Outdated Funding Law Hampers Community College Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Nearly half are Pell Grant-eligible, and 68% experience at least one basic needs insecurity, with 24% self-identifying as homeless. Technology that didn't exist when the law was draftedcomputers, the internet, online learning platformsnow consumes significant portions of college budgets.

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A Rise in Job Satisfaction Among Faculty Since Pandemic

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A new study by Course Hero, an online learning platform for educators, suggests that a rise in job satisfaction among faculty has improved since the start of the pandemic. Only 44 percent of tenure-track faculty and 36 percent of full professors are women. percent of tenured faculty are Black and 6.6

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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, community colleges across the country saw a decline in enrollment for myriad reasons — financial, family, illness, lack of internet or inability to adapt to online learning. As in-person and hybrid learning resume, enrollment numbers have not returned to pre-COVID levels.

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Advancing the #RealCollege Movement

Believe in Students

My job when I arrived was to figure out how to utilize incredibly generous philanthropic support to provide emergency grants to students. And in all the hundreds of hours of conversations I’d had about student success, I had never once talked to or about faculty members as part of the solution.

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3 considerations for prison education programs

EAB

Blogs 3 considerations for prison education programs What you need to know ahead of July’s restoration of Second Chance Pell grants Given the restoration of Pell Grant funding for incarcerated students expected in July 2023 , many institutions are beginning to develop plans for Prison Education Programs (PEPs).

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Will Your School Start Recruiting Incarcerated Students?

EAB

EAB experts Caylie Privitere and Matthew McAloon examine the benefits to students and institutions from the restoration of Pell Grant funding for incarcerated persons who want to pursue a college education. Our guest today discuss the restoration of Pell Grant funding for incarcerated students. Transcript [music] 0:00:11.6 Do we know?

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Making Higher Education Work for All Students

The University Innovation Alliance

Making Higher Education Work for All Students A Conversation With Becky Takeda-Tinker, President, Colorado State University Global bridget Thu, 09/14/2023 - 06:00 Higher Ed Leadership Remote Learning Weekly Wisdom Online learning became a critical component for many institutions during COVID. We listen to our faculty.