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FAFSA completion rates for incoming first-year students—who were high school seniors during the previous financial aid cycle—still lag about 9 percent behind last year, according to data from the National College Attainment Network.
Salesforce’s Education Cloud tracks students and their behavior throughout their academic journeys, gathering data that enables personalized interactions and creates a more connected experience.
Across these three organization types, bachelor’s degree holders made annual cash donations roughly 3.5 times higher than those who only finished high school, according to an analysis of BLS data from a 2012 Lumina Education report.
The findings emphasize that the issues important to young voters in general ring true with many enrolled in higher education, as well as how institution type and demographic factors can influence trends among college students.
The layoffs at SLU follow meetings and town halls that included nearly 1,000 faculty and staff, as well as efforts to avoid cutting filled positions.
A Texas ABC news station reported Friday that the university “terminated” Ghosh, a biology professor, about a week after he was charged on Sept. 25.
Instead, young people tend to learn to appreciate skilled trade careers after they have held other jobs at places like Taco Bell and McDonald’s, he said.
Just over 1,000 college students across the United States responded to the Inside Higher Ed and Generation Lab survey, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent.
In a class-action lawsuit, filed in 2022, plaintiffs alleged that Walden implemented “a concerted constellation of tactics to target, deceive, and exploit Black and female DBA students” and “deliberately hid the true cost” of the program by downplaying how many credits it required.
Exposing high schoolers like Angelysmari to college-level work and providing coaching for navigating college life — such as asking a professor for help and handling academic deadlines — is exactly what Veritas founder and CEO Rachel Romano envisioned when she started the school in 2012.
Williams, who joined the institution in 2020, soon before it fell a bit short on its retention increase goal, has found it helpful to remind colleagues that data is about individuals and showing what can be done to meet their needs.
From a credit ratings agency examining intensifying pressure on colleges to a public university cutting positions amid a deficit, here are our top-line figures from some of our biggest stories of the week.