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When Your School’s Enrollment is Full: What’s Next?

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Achieving full enrollment is a significant milestone for any private school, symbolizing the culmination of hard work, strategic planning, and a compelling program. Remember the economic recession of 2008? Demographics shift, competition intensifies, and what attracted families to your school one year might not work the next.

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College Programs for Students With Intellectual Disabilities Grow With Little Oversight

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Many flagship universities have added credential programs specifically for students with intellectual disabilities. Long-running programs have proven to be successful in helping these students secure higher-earning jobs. However, some people worry a lack of government oversight could lead to predatory programs.

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Vanderbilt Announces Free Tuition for Students Whose Families Make $150K or Less

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8, Vanderbilt announced all students from families making $150,000 or less per year will receive full tuition scholarships as part of an expansion to Opportunity Vanderbilt , its no-loan financial aid program. "We Vanderbilt created Opportunity Vanderbilt during the financial crisis of 2008 and has provided over $2.6

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$10M Donation Will Help CUNY Journalism School Go Tuition-Free

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The goal is to become the first graduate journalism program to offer free tuition to all students. While traditional newsroom journalism employment has fallen by 26% since 2008, employment in broadcasting and online media outlets has increased. But the school has its sights set on bigger plans.

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How Will the Harvard Lawsuit Affect Affirmative Action in College Admissions?

Spark Admissions

What we now think of as “affirmative action” for demographic minorities, particularly racial minorities, emerged most clearly through President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs in the 1960s. At the time, the University of Texas system admitted the top 10% of every high school graduating class, regardless of students’ racial identity.

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Reimagining the Liberal Arts and Humanities

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Several colleges have eliminated liberal arts and humanities programs in response to budget cuts and student preferences. A national grant program aims to reposition the liberal arts and humanities as central to the general education curriculum. The number of majors in the liberal arts has declined over the past half-century.

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Looming Enrollment Cliff Poses Serious Threat to Colleges

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Now consider birthrates during the Great Recession, which began in 2008. The number of kids born between 2008 and 2011 plummeted dramatically. Google itself offers six-month certificate programs leading to in-demand jobs. Four in five community colleges have or will have programs dedicated to re-enrolling them.