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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

According to UNESCO, global demand for higher education is expected to grow from 100 million students currently to 250+ million by 2025. In Ontario, Canada, for instance, the somewhat shocking facts are: 99% of all Ontario elementary and secondary students have access to computers at school.

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States use direct mail, money, to get more of their residents back to college

The Hechinger Report

The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations.

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Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

The Hechinger Report

At two-year institutions, admission is accessible, tuition is affordable, and flexible coursework fits into schedules complicated not only by jobs and families, but counseling, support groups and doctor visits. “I She’s thriving in her classes and expects to graduate in 2025. Recovery is painstakingly hard, Badboy said.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

Recognizing these trends, state policymakers set a goal almost four years ago of increasing the proportion of 25- to 44-year-olds, of all races, with at least a postsecondary certificate to 70 percent by 2025. Many are taking steps to diversify their faculty and staff and training them in “cultural competency.”.

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OPINION: Higher Education needs to get comfortable with trial and error

The Hechinger Report

Additionally, our members are on track to double their founding goal and graduate 136,000 additional graduates by 2025. No training manual can make up for knowledge hard won on a particular campus. Along the way, we’ve learned some hard-earned lessons. What works at one place doesn’t always transfer perfectly to another.

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

The Hechinger Report

The institute, which opened last year in borrowed space with sweeping views of Casco Bay in Portland’s fast-developing East End, is offering master’s degrees , certificates and professional training in computer science, data analytics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cybersecurity and other subjects.

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Colleges face reckoning as plummeting birthrate worsens enrollment declines

The Hechinger Report

Universities doing this say they’re “creating greater access and opportunity,” as Fairleigh Dickinson put it, or moving to “strengthen educational value,” according to Rider. Tuition continued to go up and dropout rates have barely improved since 2015, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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