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6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023

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Blogs 6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023 For the past two years, it’s been difficult to focus on anything beyond the immediate consequences of the pandemic. But now as we find ourselves stabilizing, it’s time to pause and take stock of the full landscape facing community colleges. get your copy 2.

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The 4 stages of an integrated lifecycle approach for community college student success

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Blogs The 4 stages of an integrated lifecycle approach for community college student success How EAB’s Navigate helps community colleges at every stage There is encouraging data showing that six-year completion rates have been rising across all community colleges, with a.9%

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Diversity Gains at Selective Colleges Modest, Study Finds

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Marginal' Diversity Gains Among Selective Colleges The Georgetown study evaluated college enrollments among selective, moderately selective, and open-access institutions between 2009 and 2019, the decade before the pandemic hit and turned higher education sideways. And it grew among moderately selective colleges from 18% to 23%.

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Missouri State Program for Autistic Students to Expand Thanks to Donation

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ASCEND, established in 2022, helps autistic students make the jump to college. The Missouri community college has not yet announced specific uses for the gift. A Missouri community college will increase its investment in a program aiding autistic students' transition to college.

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Alabama Nonprofit Joins Push to Diversify the Tech Field

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However, as of 2021, Black engineers make up only 5% of the field , unchanged since 2009. EDPA hopes these internships will inspire students to stay in the startup and innovative career fields in Alabama. The Annenberg Institute at Brown University study said HBCUs produce 40% of all Black engineers and 27% of Black STEM undergraduates.

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New York Expands Direct Admissions Program

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This year, 65,000 students received admissions letters to the system's community colleges and information about CUNY's four-year universities. In 2009, Texas amended the policy, raising the threshold to 6-7% for the University of Texas at Austin. Texas that the state's affirmative action system was unconstitutional.

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National College Completion Rate Stalls for 3rd Year in a Row: Report

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College Completion Rates Nationally and Statewide More than 2.4 million first-time students enrolled in college in fall 2017 — 28,500 more students than in 2016 — however, the completion rate was unchanged since 2015. starting with the 2009 cohort. The rate had steadily increased by 9.3 percentage points from 52.9%