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Business and Health Professions Lead Faculty Growth as Humanities Decline, CUPA-HR Report Finds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In recent years, higher education institutions have faced increasing pressure to prioritize disciplines with clear career pathways over traditional liberal arts programs, according to a new report from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR). Business also showed robust growth of 20.8%

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Report: HBCU Humanities Programs Show Resilience Amid National Decline

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A new report from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences offers promising insights into the state of humanities programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), even as humanities degree completions decline across the nation. In 2022, HBCUs awarded 8.8% In 2022, HBCUs awarded 13.5%

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The Sooner, The Better: Building Financial Literacy Among Black Students (and Communities)

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According to the Council for Economic Education’s latest biennial Survey of the States , more than two-thirds of all states are now requiring personal finance classes for high school graduation – up dramatically from 2022 when fewer than half the states had such mandates. Financial literacy is as essential as literacy itself. Dr. Donna Y.

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Compton College Addresses Student Homelessness and Basic Needs

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Celebrating In Community In June 2022, California lawmakers moved to include a student housing grant totaling $80,389,000 in the 2022-2023 State Budget for the Compton Community College District to build their proposed 250+ bed student housing facility. We didnt know it at the time, but thats what we were doing. We just wanted to help.

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Endowment Returns Down for Fiscal Year 2022, Especially for Schools with Less

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Inflation and geopolitical disruptions caused endowment returns to fall by 8% in fiscal year 2022, according to an annual study released last week by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA). on average.

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Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles Appointed Head of NC State College of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Joy Gaston Gayles will become head of the NC State College of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development (ELPHD), effective Jul. She was the 2022 President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE).

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Student Success Systems Show Dramatic Impact on Course Failure, Chronic Absenteeism Rates

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Implementation gains were particularly pronounced in key areas: combining data with human insights increased by 22 percentage points, while creating access to holistic, actionable student data improved by 27 percentage points from year one to year two.