Maine's community colleges will now proactively notify their students about transfer opportunities to public universities after they finish 30 credits—or approximately, their first year—at the community college.
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.
Admissions offices are slowly integrating generative AI into their tool boxes to manage ballooning application pools while also easing staff burnout and other workload issues.
Like many schools, Bondurant-Farrar High School has a bulletin board set up every spring for seniors to announce their plans for after graduation. While some students were headed to out-of-state colleges or directly into the workforce through a trade, half of the board was dominated by cards signaling one of Iowa's public universities as students' next step.
For all the focus that institutions have placed on conveying the long-term value of a degree and its success as a vehicle for social mobility (all true), the messaging is simply not resonating broadly.
More employers recognize that many prospective candidates choose not to go to college because it's unaffordable or because they believe they'll acquire more practical skills in the workforce, versus the classroom, a new survey contends.
