Community colleges expect financial and enrollment declines through 2021
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Community colleges are expected to take financial and enrollment hits through 2021. Moody’s Investors Services announced its 2021 outlook for the sector is negative, as is its outlook for four-year public and private institutions. The poor outlook for community colleges is mostly due to the sharp enrollment declines this fall.
Read More about Community colleges expect financial and enrollment declines through 2021Bond rating agencies forecast financial challenges for US higher education in 2021
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Two bond rating agencies on Tuesday issued pessimistic outlooks for the U.S. higher education sector for 2021 as the coronavirus pandemic continues to strain enrollment and revenue, heighten long-term pressures, and hit certain types of institutions harder than others.
Read More about Bond rating agencies forecast financial challenges for US higher education in 2021Report: College enrollment rate drops for recent high school graduates
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The COVID-19 pandemic doesn’t seem to have affected high school graduation rates. But it appears to have impacted how many of those graduates went straight to college. New data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center show that nearly 22 percent fewer students went to college immediately.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Students’ incomes appear to have had major impacts on whether they continued at community colleges or left completely during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new analysis from the Community College Research Center at Teachers College of Columbia University. The analysis used U.S. Census Bureau data.
Read More about Students from lower income families most likely to cancel or change college plans amid pandemicLaw School Survey of Student Engagement report looks at changes in legal education over the last 15 years
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Law School Survey of Student Engagement, released Tuesday, chronicles changes in law education in the United States from 2004 to 2019. While law education has become more diverse in terms of race and ethnicity, those gains have been unequal. The report also details ballooning debt burdens for law students.
Read More about Law School Survey of Student Engagement report looks at changes in legal education over the last 15 yearsUC Irvine Law dean L. Song Richardson named next president of Colorado College
THE COLORADO SPRINGS BUSINESS JOURNAL — L. Song Richardson will be the 14th president of Colorado College. Richardson, who is Black and Korean, will be the first woman of color to hold the presidency at CC. Richardson is currently the dean and chancellor’s professor of law at University of California Irvine School of Law.
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DIVERSE ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION — Mary J. Davis, interim dean of University of Kentucky’s J. David Rosenberg College of Law, has been appointed dean of the law school , effective Jan. 1, 2021. She will be the first woman to be permanent dean of the law school, according to a university press release.
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THE HECHINGER REPORT — Students may aim for a four-year university. They may attend a local community college or technical school. They may choose the military. A few may go to colleges like Vanderbilt and Yale. But the goal is not to name-check elites; it’s to educate local students for living-wage jobs.
Read More about A look at efforts to improve college enrollment in rural areasPitzer College announces bachelor’s degree program for incarcerated students
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Pitzer College is launching a bachelor’s degree program for incarcerated students, according to a media advisory. The college claims to be the first college in the nation to create such a program. Both incarcerated students and Pitzer students will take the courses inside a correctional facility.
Read More about Pitzer College announces bachelor’s degree program for incarcerated studentsReport: Women and faculty of color have lower salaries and less job security than White or male faculty
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Women and people of color make less money and have less job security than their white, male counterparts in academe, according to a new “snapshot” analysis of federal data from 2018 by the American Association of University Professors. “That these data sets predate the advent of COVID-19 is cause for true alarm.”
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