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Campus Climate

SDSU Finds Success in Broad Definition of Diversity

San Diego State University’s efforts to attract and maintain a diverse student population begins with a recruitment strategy of reaching out and building strong relationships with prospective students at high schools and community colleges.

August 23, 2018

Recruitment & Retention

Baser Prioritizes Diversity, Increases Retention and Graduation

After a series of polarizing flyers galvanized colleges and universities across San Antonio, Dr. Ric N. Baser penned an op-ed piece as president of the Higher Education Council of San Antonio arguing that hate speech has no role on college campuses.

May 14, 2018

Recruitment & Retention

Success Formula for Student Recruitment and Retention

How does a college determine its student enrollment strategy to effectively impact growth, meet net tuition revenue goals and increase graduation rate? To properly grow and maintain enrollment in a competitive future, try this formula.

March 22, 2018

Sports

Education of Student-Athletes a Hot Topic at Panel Discussion

For all the heightened chatter this year about whether college student-athletes should be paid, Dr. Kenneth Shropshire suggests that making their education a priority is more important than a microscopic focus on financial compensation.

March 18, 2018

Community Colleges

Nationwide Initiative to Boost Graduation Numbers

With the goal of significantly increasing the number of graduates by the year 2025, the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (APLU) has launched an unprecedented nationwide collaborative effort.

February 26, 2018

Home

Report: Challenges Persist for Latino Students

A report, titled “A Look at Latino Student Success: Identifying Top- and Bottom-Performing Institutions,” lists the colleges and universities that have been able to address this gap as well as those where the disparity is still strong

December 20, 2017

Students

Celebrate Latino High School Graduation, but Work Toward College Degree Attainment

While there is much to rejoice, there’s a drastic chasm in graduation from 4-year colleges among Hispanics and other racial and ethnic groups.

October 18, 2017

Students

Federal System Adds Transfer, Part-time Student Data to Mix

A longstanding effort to include more information about outcomes for transfer and part-time students materialized Thursday with the release of more detailed data through the federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.

October 12, 2017

Students

Community College System Sets New Graduate Record

VERSAILLES, Ky. — The Kentucky Community and Technical College System says it has set a new high mark of graduates and credentials awarded. For the 2016-17 academic year, 16,146 students graduated from the college system. That’s a nine percent increase over the previous year. The previous high was 15,958 in 2013-14. The college system says […]

August 30, 2017

Students

Lawsuit: Charlotte School of Law Defrauded Taxpayers Out of $285M

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A lawsuit is accusing the Charlotte School of Law of defrauding taxpayers out of $285 million by admitting unqualified students, then manipulating records to keep them enrolled so the school could collect their government-supported tuition. The Charlotte Observer reports the lawsuit was filed by former professor Barbara Bernier. The lawsuit says the […]

August 28, 2017

Students

National Study Shows Freshmen Better Off Taking 15 Credits

Students who took 15 credits during their first year of college did better academically and were retained at higher rates than those who took fewer credits, a new EAB analysis has found.

August 21, 2017

Students

Study: Increased Credit Hours’ Impact on Graduation Rates ‘Very Limited’

A recent study finds that excess credit hour policies were having a “very limited” impact on graduation rates and degree completion, but were plunging students deeper into debt.

July 19, 2017