When higher education leaders talk about student belonging, the conversation tends to center on programs, offices, and peer communities. But mounting evidence points to a different, often overlooked factor: the relationship between…
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At two community colleges, the first question to the student was the same: What is your student identification number? She did not have one. She was still trying to determine whether she…
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For decades, colleges and universities have measured student success through data: retention rates, graduation rates, and persistence from one semester to the next. The numbers matter. They tell institutions whether students are…
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Colleges often approach belonging through affinity groups, social events, mentoring, and messages about inclusion. Those efforts matter greatly, but they cannot compensate for material conditions that can prevent some students from participating…
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Creator culture has changed how a new generation recognizes authenticity, builds familiarity, and decides who deserves its attention. Higher education leaders may not need to become influencers, but they can no longer…
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Ask a room of student affairs leaders to define belonging precisely enough to build a program around, and EAB’s research team has found, most will struggle. Even so, the research base is…
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International students are perhaps the most compliant population on our campus. They are doing great by every measure the Office of International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) tracks. New international students show…
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Contingent faculty are no longer a temporary supplement to the American academic workforce. They are part of its foundation. In fall 2023, 68.2% of faculty members at U.S. colleges and universities held…
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Inside Georgia Tech’s system for training application reviewers, managing a growing volume, controlling bias, and protecting consistency. At Georgia Tech, an admissions officer who reviews college applications may evaluate 40 in one…
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Higher education’s system of shared governance—the decades-old arrangement under which faculty hold primary authority over curriculum, hiring, and academic standards while boards and administrators oversee finance and operations—is being tested from nearly…
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A bachelor’s degree has traditionally included 120 credits, four years, and a required mix of general education and major coursework. That standard has held remarkably steady even as everything about college has…
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As federal support becomes less predictable, universities are testing how far other funding sources can protect research without redirecting it. For decades the federal government has been the financial foundation of American…
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Classes meet. Students register. Committees convene. Reports are submitted. From the outside, the institution appears intact. Inside, however, faculty and staff may still be carrying the effects of layoffs, abrupt leadership or…
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In June, an unauthorized party infiltrated Columbia University’s network, disrupted campus systems, and stole data. Restoring operations required university technology staff, outside cybersecurity experts, law enforcement, administrators, communications officials, and others. Columbia…
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Thirty-one California colleges and universities now carry an official title that didn’t exist two years ago: Black-Serving Institution (BSI). It’s a state-level designation, separate from historically Black college or university status, meant…
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Americans haven’t given up on higher education—but a wave of new survey data released this summer shows just how badly the cost of a degree is straining them. A Gallup survey conducted…
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Simmons University in Boston will welcome its first cohort of students this fall into a new graduate concentration in business and leadership in women’s sports, billed as the first graduate degree in…
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A settlement reached this July between Bakersfield College and history professor Daymon Johnson is drawing new legal parameters around how far colleges can go in requiring faculty to teach through a diversity,…
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A sweeping new study of more than 95,000 undergraduates has found that generative AI use in college classrooms is now widespread enough to threaten the reliability of how universities measure learning—and that…
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At the University of California, Santa Cruz, belonging became a community-wide research effort. The university’s We Belong Project brought together undergraduate students, faculty researchers, immigrant families, and local organizations to examine what…
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