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The New Enrollment Practice: Positive Impact for the Future
We’re beginning to see the light. After more than a year of turmoil and uncertainty, the outlook for traditional undergraduate admissions is beginning to brighten. But it’s still unclear exactly what the new practice of enrollment will look like post-pandemic.
Class Half Empty? Understanding the Community College Enrollment Collapse
With a few exceptions, there are two key questions keeping community college leaders up at night this summer: “Where did they go? And, what can we do to bring them back?”
Deciphering the Coursera IPO: The Holy Grail for Online Learning?
In late March, Coursera raised more than $520 million with a 36% price jump during its first day of trading. While Coursera’s opening bump doesn’t compare to Bumble’s 60% or Roblox’s 54% increases, it’s likely to become one of the largest postsecondary IPOs to date.
The Opportunity Cost of Ignoring Community College-Bound Students
Few schools, however, will keep the lines of communication open with admitted students who chose a community college instead. But Eduventures data shows why these schools may have an important advantage when the time comes to enroll transfer students.
Transcending the Current Higher Education Journey for Black Students
In 2019, that was the proportion of first-time, full-time Black undergraduates who completed a bachelor’s degree in six years. The rate for all first-time, full-time undergraduates was 61% and for white students it was 65%. While none of these ratios are stellar, the gap between Black learners and the other two is alarming.
EdTech and the Changing Role of Course Evaluations
Higher education has long asked students to provide this type of insight—via the course evaluation. More recently, however, the ideal role for these evaluations has come into question, sending course evaluation vendors in several different directions with their products.
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