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Adult students are key to meeting the postsecondary attainment goals in many states and the U.S., given the projected enrollment declines in traditional college-age Americans. Yet adults remain underrepresented in higher education, and they’ve been disproportionately hurt by the pandemic and ensuring recession. This week's episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed' s news and analysis podcast , explores the landscape of current and prospective adult learners, examining why they often struggle to find their way to and through college, the institutional practices and government policies that can hamper them, and possible approaches to eliminating those obstacles. We talk with Su Jin Jez, executive director of California Competes, whose recent report looks at the state’s nearly 7 million adults who could be “prospective graduates,” and provide a national perspective from Lisa Soricone, senior research director at Jobs for the Future.       Is this diversity newslette...

" The Black Experience in Higher Education " is a new compilation of articles from Inside Higher Ed . You may download a free copy of the print-on-demand booklet here . This booklet was made possible in part by the support of the Lumina Foundation and NC-SARA. Image:  Ad keyword:  diversity, AdXoff Section:  Diversity Diversity from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3u7MMnq via IFTTT

Blog:  Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education This piece is a continuation of Enrollment Marketing: Digitally Remastered Part 1 , where I discussed redefining the role of in-person recruitment experiences alongside virtual ones.   Once we accomplish this task, it will be important to ensure that our content plan aligns with this new reality. Consider today’s entertainment juggernauts. In addition to generating great content, Netflix, Disney+ and Hulu also focus on creating a marketing plan and simple user experience for their audience. Like them, taking great care in how and when we release content we’ll ensure that our digital content and in-person experiences are meaningful and impactful. Move from “events” to “engagement” In a recent article, “This is the Way” , enrollment content marketing was compared to the release strategies of popular streaming platforms like Netflix and Disney+.  Higher education institutions rely on the Ne...

Image:  Colleges are facing another admissions cycle marked by uncertainty about international student enrollments. It’s not just a matter of student interest; it’s also a matter of logistics. More than one year after the COVID-19 pandemic began in the United States, many U.S. embassies and consulates have not resumed regular visa processing. In China, which sends more international students to the U.S. than any other, the U.S. Embassy and consulates are only scheduling emergency appointments. International educators have warned of an "imminent crisis" in Chinese enrollments as prospective students in China are almost wholly unable to obtain visa interview appointments, with the backlog growing by the day. Pandemic-related travel bans remain in place for large swaths of the world -- including the key sending countries of China and Brazil -- meaning that unless something changes, students from those countries would have to transit through a third country and spen...

Image:  The Education Department has announced that people who have disabilities that make them eligible for federal student loan discharges will now have one hoop fewer to jump through -- at least for the duration of the pandemic. Borrowers who can prove they are “totally and permanently” disabled have historically been eligible to have their federal student loans discharged by the department, but they must turn in annual paperwork for three years verifying that they meet income requirements. Now the department has announced that people who failed to turn in that paperwork during the pandemic and lost their right to a discharge -- approximately 41,000 people with $1.3 billion in debt -- will have those decisions reversed and any payments refunded. Other borrowers who are still in that three-year monitoring period -- about 190,000 people -- will no longer be asked to turn in paperwork regarding income for the remainder of the pandemic. “Borrowers with total and perm...

Image:  Becker College is joining a growing list of small private liberal arts colleges deciding to close during the pandemic. The college in Worcester, Mass., will wind down operations in August after failing to find a viable path through the pandemic’s financial pressure cooker. Current Becker students will have the option to transfer to more than a dozen nearby institutions. Some employees may also transfer to nearby colleges and universities. Tuition deposits from admitted students who planned to attend Becker next fall will be refunded. Like many colleges that have recently closed, Becker was vulnerable before the pandemic. Enrollment declined in recent years. This fall, the college enrolled about 1,500 students. That was down from more than 1,800 during the 2015-16 academic year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Recent financial documents show the college operated with several-hundred-thousand-dollar deficits for multiple years, and Beck...

Image:  Conservative higher ed commentators and a former president of a national association of student affairs professionals harshly criticized the association’s public apology last week for a speech by financial expert and television host Suze Orman as being emblematic of the “cancel culture” prevalent on college campuses and growing attempts by certain groups to stifle free speech. The apology by leaders of NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education characterized Orman's keynote address last Wednesday at the association's virtual annual conference as “insulting and insensitive,” among other things. The mea culpa was issued after many attendees panned the speech on social media and blasted Orman for being uninformed and for insufficiently contextualizing her speech with current socioeconomic realities. Orman referred to the South Side of Chicago, where she grew up, as “the hood” and “the ghetto” in her comments. Her critics said, and the apology stat...