Leveraging a cost-effective, technology-based approach to guide minority male students, Watermark and NCCCS led the Minority Male Success Initiative (MMSI), and the results further proved how necessary it is to find innovative ways to reach students.
Black college students have lower six-year completion rates for any type of degree or certificate program than any other racial or ethnic group because of racial discrimination, the high cost of higher education and a multitude of external responsibilities, according to a new Lumina Foundation-Gallup 2023 State of Higher Education study. The study, released on Thursday, […]
The Aspen Institute and CCRC have invited ten community colleges to participate in a program that can reprogram their values to boost the likelihood of students landing high-paying jobs or being admitted into universities.
Moving quickly as Gov. Ron DeSantis seeks to overhaul New College of Florida, lawmakers next week could funnel $15 million to the liberal-arts school for such things as hiring faculty and providing scholarships. The Joint Legislative Budget Commission, which can make mid-year budget decisions, is scheduled to consider the issue during a meeting Wednesday. The […]
As the cost of education rises, students paying their way through college have to tack on more hours of work to afford an education. A study done by My eLearning World revealed that students have to work four times the amount of hours at a minimum wage job to receive the same education as students 30 […]
From "devious licks" to vandalizing school property, more districts are becoming aware of the dangerous TikTok trends that students can't get enough of. Then there's the fact that it can cause massive cybersecurity issues.
Seemingly everyone must file a statement outlining their understanding of diversity, their past contributions to it and their plans "for advancing equity and inclusion" if hired. Not long ago, such statements were exotic and of marginal importance. Now they are de rigueur across most of the University of California system for hiring and tenure decisions. Read more on […]
GRAND FORKS — Higher education leaders across the state are convening to tackle the subject of artificial intelligence on campuses, with a renewed focus following the release of ChatGPT software. ChatGPT, or Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, is a program developed in November 2022 by the research laboratory Open AI. It allows users to pose questions, […]
University of Florida leaders will join Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry for an announcement Tuesday about a planned collaboration between the university system and the city. The partnership could involve the creation of a campus in Jacksonville that would encompass the technology side of two of the city's most dynamic economic sectors: health care and financial […]
