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While enrollment for colleges and universities during the fall 2023 semester increased nationwide over fall 2022, first‐time freshman enrollment at four‐year institutions, both public and private, dropped. That finding was announced during a webinar interpreting the results of an annual Stay Informed with the Latest Enrollment Information report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Doug Shapiro, Executive Director at NSCRC, shared the results on a call.

CHICAGO — Creating customized degrees is a way to serve the needs of your local marketplace, both by providing skilled workers and by offering adult learners a chance to pursue something directly in line with their own career goals and interests. But scaling these programs — making it possible to have a wide range of options for your students without competing internally with your own programs — can prove to be a challenge.

CHICAGO — Studies show that adult learners tend to do better in pursuing higher education when they make personal connections with your campus — and with their peers. At George Fox University in Portland, Oregon, cohorts have facilitated successful connections between adult learners and its institution and helped boost retention and completion rates.

CHICAGO — Re‐engaging your stopped‐out adult learners can be an effective tool in your arsenal for dramatically boosting completion rates, not to mention changing the lives of the students in your community. "We know who [these students] are: when they stopped out, why they stopped out. It's rarely that they failed out, but more likely they 'lifed' out in some way," said Tony Sheppard, Professor and Program Coordinator of Hospital Management & Tourism at Sacramento State University.

College students who accessed their courses in a fully online format reported more psychological distress during the COVID‐19 pandemic than their peers in face‐to‐face courses, or peers who took classes in both online and face‐to‐face formats. That's according to research published in JAMA Network Open, based on data from 59,250 undergraduate students.

CHICAGO — Waubonsee Community College, a Hispanic‐serving institution an hour west of Chicago, has been awarded three consecutive Title V grants, starting in 2010, for building equity and helping scale projects that lead to increased completion rates for Latinx and adult students.

LAS VEGAS — "I spent about 16 years at Syracuse University, in their emergency communications department. In [this] my former job, 'no' was never an option. I had to find a solution [to whatever problem we faced]. Grant funding is similar," Shannon Day, Grants Development Consultant, Grants Office, LLC, said.

CHICAGO — Can students actually demonstrate the skills they learn from your programs in a way that will better their life outcomes? And do employers understand the competencies students gain when they graduate from your institution? It's a question on the minds of many who work in higher education, and it has an impact for your institution in terms of showing students the value of their degree. The landscape of college credentials is growing, sowing further confusion as each institution often has its own language for discussing similar skills or competencies.