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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

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According to UNESCO, global demand for higher education is expected to grow from 100 million students currently to 250+ million by 2025. It is perhaps ironic that colleges, under threat by students seeking better technology, need first to train some students on that technology.

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PROOF POINTS: 861 colleges and 9,499 campuses have closed down since 2004

The Hechinger Report

birth rates soon translate into fewer graduating high schoolers after 2025. Most other public closures were small ones, such as the closure of a teacher training site at a local elementary school. More than 60 percent of the students at a shuttered campus became college dropouts, adding to the large pool of U.S.

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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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OPINION: What if corporate America did more to raise the high school graduation rate?

The Hechinger Report

Today, that means a high school diploma and quality postsecondary credentials or training. Some school districts with high rates of poverty — including Tacoma, Washington, Fresno, California, and Cleveland, Ohio — had very high percentages of dropouts more than a decade ago. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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

The Hechinger Report

Related: Training people recovering from substance abuse disorders to be part of treatment teams Genevieve Ward, 42, enrolled at Skagit Valley in the summer of 2021 after spending time in prison on a drug conviction. 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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