Helping adult learners requires a system and institution-wide focus on providing effective support throughout the process and ensuring students receive credit for their past achievements.
The university wants to cut nearly $100 million from its budget starting July 2025. It's a strategy leaders hope will provide long-term stability amid ongoing budget woes.
Not only could the headaches affect the number of students applying to one's institution, but they can also hurt the retention of one's first-generation students.
Reflecting some of the most significant developments in higher education in 2023, our readers at University Business gravitated toward topics reflecting issues most top-of-mind.
With the Defense Department readying its outreach to HBCUs at Congress' urging, one university network is poised to bring together established research giants and underfunded institutions to secure better funding in science and engineering.
Institutions are ramping up their efforts to fight student hunger by building food pantries. However, students may not be aware of their efforts. The Hope Center found that more than half of students struggling with basic needs in 2020 didn’t apply for any support programs because they didn’t know how.
The Supreme Court's rulings this summer had strong implications for a recent survey by TimelyCare. More than half of students reported stress or anxiety around its decisions on striking down affirmative action (53%) and denying Biden's student loan forgiveness (60%). Students submitted responses in July 2023, when the rulings were still top of mind.
