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Tag: degree completion
Recruitment & Retention
Summit Looks to Address Financial Barriers to Student Enrollment and Degree Completion
Among the various barriers to college student enrollment and degree completion, finances stand out as the most prominent. This is what CampusLogicās four-day SHIFT Summit is striving to address.
June 8, 2021
COVID-19
New Report Recommends California Higher Ed to Support Older High School Graduates
A new report from California Competes is recommending that California higher ed institutions create better pipelines to college for not only recent high school graduates but also older adults. The report, āUntapped Opportunity: Understanding and Advancing Prospects for Californians without a College Degreeāstudies Californians ages 25 to 54 who graduated from high school and suggests [ā¦]
February 12, 2021
Opinion
Institutionalizing Support for College Students Impacted by Foster Care
Despite the growing national media attention, shedding light on the precarious experiences of college students impacted by the foster care system, they remain on the margins of higher education research, policy and discourse. The data are clear though. On any given day there are nearly half of million youth in the foster care system (of which Black and Native American students are disproportionately represented) who have been subject to some form of abuse, neglect, or concerns about safety and wellbeing.
February 19, 2020
STEM
PhD Studentās App Aims to Improve College Match and Completion
As a teacher at a private high school in an affluent San Francisco Bay-area community and later as a dean at a high-needs public charter school in California, Vielka Hoy noticed wide differences between the two institutions in college-attainment rates and in where students decided to matriculate.
May 2, 2019
Students
BNY Mellon Donates $1M Grant to CUNY to Support Low-Income Students
The City University of New York (CUNY) has recently received a $1 million grant from the BNY Mellon Foundation to support academically driven, low-income students and increase graduation rates. The BNY Mellon three-year grant, named the BNY Mellon Foundation Transfer Scholarship, will support 330 juniors and seniors at a CUNY senior college who are on [ā¦]
January 25, 2019
News Roundup
Green Mountain College Announces Closure, Partnership to Help Students Complete Degree Programs
Green Mountain College (GMC) Board of Trustees have announced that the 185-year-old institution will close its doors at the end of the spring 2019 semester. GMC officials said the college has created a teach-out partnership with Prescott College to help GMC students complete their degrees before the school closes. Under the partnership, Prescott will admit [ā¦]
January 24, 2019
Students
Experts Tie Student Success to Bridging Education and Workforce
Better integration of education at all levels, eliminating the distinction between higher education and career preparation and more cooperation among local, state and federal policymakers can remove barriers and better prepare a workforce that increasingly includes individuals who donāt fit the traditional profile of college students.
December 12, 2018
African-American
CGS Meeting Hears Sobering Report on Black Student Access
Institutional racism, White supremacy and anti-Black attitudes fuel underrepresentation of Black students on college and university campuses across the United States, with access a battle constantly being waged in legal courts and the court of public opinion, according to an academic who addressed the 58th annual meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools this week.
December 6, 2018
News Roundup
Wayne State University Named Winner of APLU Degree Award
Wayne State University (WSU) was named the winner of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU)ās 2018 Degree Completion Award which recognizes and awards schools that utilize new approaches to advance degree completion and ensuring educational quality of its students. In 2011, WSU established a Student Retention Initiative which works to improve student success [ā¦]
November 12, 2018
Students
Report: Guided Pathways are Working in Tennesseeās Community Colleges
Early indicators about the comprehensive guided pathways model implemented by the 13 community colleges in the Tennessee Board of Regents system show that it is helping the stateās students earn more credits, pass key courses and move towards graduation, according to a new report from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College. In [ā¦]
September 13, 2018
Community Colleges
Report Reveals Community College Transfer, Degree Trends
A new study sheds light on how effectively community colleges across the nation are equipping students to obtain a credential and to transfer to another institution for a higher degree. Out of more than 1 million students who started post-secondary education at a community college, only 60,000 transferred into a baccalaureate program after receiving their [ā¦]
August 9, 2018
Opinion
Getting āPhinisheDā or āFinishEdDā: Strategies for Future Doctors
The pursuit of a doctoral degree often is an arduous journey with challenges that may include but are not limited to financial limitations, imposter syndrome, standardized test-taking bias or anxiety, academic hazing and various forms of discrimination. Nevertheless, the tam and tassel are worth the hassle,
July 20, 2018
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