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Dive Brief: Pittsburgh Technical College plans to close permanently, citing declining enrollment, market pressures and inflation, as well as what it described as “orchestrated attacks against the institution,” the college said in a release Monday night. The private nonprofit college is set to end instruction after the spring semester, effective Aug. 9. It has teach-out…
Terra Dotta’s newest survey asked 356 international students in the US, 77% of whom were undergraduates, about various aspects of their study in the US – and while many responses echoed the general experience outlined by recent studies, immigration views were markedly different. Just 6% said their decision to study in the US was “negatively…
Dr. Roberto GonzalezRoberto Gonzalez has been appointed president of Oxnard College in California. He serves as vice president of student services, enrollment management, and equity initiatives at West Los Angeles College in California. Gonzalez holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California, Los Angeles, a master’s in counseling from California State University,…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Nearly half of Universities of Wisconsin campuses are projected to have structural deficits in the 2025 fiscal year, according to budget documents presented to the system’s board last week. Six out of 13 of the…
Caps on international student enrolments for Australia’s institutions are expected to be calculated over the next three months, said education minister Jason Clare in an interview with Sky News on June 9. “I’m expecting the focus here and the work that we’ll do will take place over the next three months to set what those…
Expanding access to high-value industry-recognized credentials within the realm of higher education is a vital step toward addressing the trend of people exiting colleges and universities without a degree. A recent article in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education highlighted that “there are still 36.8 million Americans under the age of 65 without credentials, despite attending…
Listen to the article 11 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. A college administrative professional makes an annual salary of $43,000. Because her compensation exceeds $35,568 per year, she is not eligible to earn overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act’s regulations as amended in 2019. That…
“When you look at IAM, there are two levels to that,” Bell says. “First, you have the ability to control access, but more important, it’s the governance side of the house where you’re creating and assigning permission sets to end users.” With analytics from these tools, Bell says, administrators can monitor users’ access and behaviors…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A California judge ordered a temporary halt to labor strikes at the University of California on Friday, after the system sued the organizing union for breach of contract. Members of UAW 4811, which represents 48,000…
Reverend James Lawson Jr., an early architect of the nonviolent protests during the Civil Rights Movement, died on Monday. He was 95. Reverend James Lawson Jr. Lawson served for decades as a professor, labor movement organizer and university professor. In 2021, more than four decades after Vanderbilt University expelled Lawson for his involvement in the…