Unlike four-year colleges and universities, technical and community college recruitment strategies often do not involve working with their prospective students until those students apply. Most of their inquiries come through applications. But that’s changing....
“We have one goal,” says Michael Sorrell, president of Paul Quinn College in Dallas, Texas. “It is a simple goal. It defines everything about us, and our goal is this: we want to end poverty. Period. That’s it.” Sound far-fetched? Not to Sorrell. In fact, he came in...
My father was a first-generation college student. It helped that he had the GI Bill, having served four years in the Air Force. By 1969 he was enrolled in Corning Community College. Twenty years later, I would do the same. My father and I were both born in Corning,...
Community college enrollment across the United States has been in steady decline since 2011. According to Inside Higher Ed’s 2017 Survey of College and University Admissions Directors, 84 percent of community college admissions directors said they had seen enrollment...
Maybe you’ve already heard the news: free community college tuition in Maryland. As The Baltimore Sun reported last year, Republican Governor Larry Hogan intended to sign a bill offering scholarships worth as much as $5,000 to low- and middle-income students. The...
An article on the online news website, Insider Louisville, had some telling data about the status of families preparing financially for their kids’ college education — at least in and around Kentucky. (Capture Higher Ed is headquartered in Louisville.) Of course, no...
Do you know how long community colleges have been around? Since 1901, as this recent article in U.S. News & World Report reminds us. Traditionally, community colleges have served people like me — I graduated with an associate’s degree in applied science (A.S.)...
Today we re-visit an oldie-but-goodie: a decade-long study by researchers from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and the consulting firm, Johnson Grossnickle and Associates, which tried to determine what made certain colleges and universities attractive to...
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