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Community-College Enrollment Is Falling. But These Majors Are Growing Fast.
About three times a week, Samantha Nigbor steers her parents’ 2006 Chevy Trailblazer out of their family farm and drives…
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Colleges Are Trying to Re-Enroll Adult Learners Who Dropped Out. Here’s How It’s Going.
As colleges across the country try to turn around sagging enrollment rates, many are targeting one group in particular: the…
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For Decades, the Number of Hispanic-Serving Institutions Steadily Rose. Then the Pandemic Hit.
For the first time in two decades, the number of colleges designated as Hispanic-serving institutions declined in 2020-21, according to…
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A Student on the Edge
The last thing Olivia Trice needed during finals week was Covid-19. It was fall 2020, and Trice was a 21-year-old…
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The Missing Hispanic Students
The numbers already didn’t look good: Doña Ana Community College had lost nearly one fifth of its enrollment from the…
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Fall’s Final Enrollment Count Is In. Colleges Lost More Than 475,000 Students.
New data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center provides a somber final tally of total college enrollment in the…
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How Colleges Can Reach the Lost Freshmen of 2020
When freshman enrollment fell more than 10 percent in the fall of 2020, college leaders crossed their fingers that the…
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Colleges Counted on Enrolling Latino Students. Now They’re Scrambling.
Francisco Paulino almost didn’t make it to college last fall. Three months before the start of his freshman year, Paulino…
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A New Term, the Same Enrollment Losses
New data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, released on Thursday, provides an early look at enrollment for the…
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The California State System Made a Big Bet for Fall. It Paid Off in Enrollment.
Last May, just weeks after college campuses shuttered in response to the coronavirus, the California State University system announced a…
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