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Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Punching Above Their Weight

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Aaron Basko This is a guest blog from Aaron Basko , vice president for enrollment management at Lynchburg Universit y. Aaron is a higher education professional with more than 25 years of experience in enrollment management. percent between 2015 and 2019.” percent between 2015 and 2019.”

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6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023

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Blogs 6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023 For the past two years, it’s been difficult to focus on anything beyond the immediate consequences of the pandemic. Increased competition Community college enrollment is facing several new external threats outside of the traditional competition from other colleges.

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What the Grand Canyon Taught Me: Getting Real About Goals, Failure, and Digging Deep

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This is a guest blog by Stuart Jones, vice president for advancement and enrollment management at Southern Utah University. Stuart oversees the fundraising, marketing, and enrollment efforts at the university, and we have invited him to share his insights about the strategic enrollment planning process in this this post.

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Study: For Nearly One-Third of Students, Higher Ed Doesn’t Pay Off

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Some 31% of students are enrolled in programs that do not lead to a positive ROI. Calculating the ROI of Higher Education The study, " Does College Pay Off? With an ROI of $842,000 and an enrollment of almost 36,000 students, it offers its students a collective lifetime return of $30 billion. Using data from the U.S.

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ED Urges Schools Not to Ask About Criminal History in College Applications

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The Department of Education (ED) updated its "Beyond the Box" guidance to mark the end of Second Chance Month in April. Central to that guidance is the urging of institutions to stop using prior criminal history as a barrier for formerly incarcerated individuals to access higher education and attain a degree or credential.

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Is There an HBCU in Michigan?

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The History of HBCUs in Michigan As the first and only HBCU in Michigan, Pensole Lewis College fulfills an important role in the state's history of higher education. While it originally opened as a secretarial school for women, LCB later enrolled male students and began offering a variety of business degrees.

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700,000 incarcerated students will be Pell-eligible in 2023. Here’s what that could mean for your institution

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Here's what you need to know about the state of higher education as it relates to incarcerated students. There is strong interest among incarcerated students for educational programing. Take the Higher Education in Prison program at Portland State University. Struggling to set graduate enrollment goals?

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