Can a focus on R&E double your enrollment?
Texas A&M University’s College of Engineering is working on an ambitious initiative called 25 by 25, with a goal of almost doubling enrollment to 25,000 students by 2025.…
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College enrollment expected to slip over next decade
With the oldest population in the country, leaders at the University of Maine system have been aware for the last several years that they would need to make…
Hispanics surpass blacks in college enrollment
Hispanics surpassed blacks in 2010 to become the second-largest racial or ethnic group of young adults in America’s colleges, according to a new analysis of Census Bureau data,…
Rapid growth in online instruction could wane, study says
Enrollment in online college classes grew by more than 1 million students over the past year, and while a new study shows that more educators think online instruction…
Report: Degrees for young blacks, Hispanics flat-lining
The number of college degrees earned by Hispanics and blacks in their 20s and 30s has stagnated over the past decade, according to a report on minorities in…
Jump in U.S. college enrollment highest in 40 years
The nation's colleges are attracting record numbers of new students as more Hispanics finish high school and young adults opt to pursue a higher education rather than languish…
Universities look toward data to stabilize enrollment numbers
University of Kansas officials are considering working with a data-mining company to pinpoint strategies to keep students enrolled after a recent report showed that 28.7 percent of freshmen…
Spike in online enrollment not surprising to many
The 2009 Sloan-C report on online education confirmed what campus officials have seen during the country’s economic downturn: Americans are flocking to web-based classes.