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"“It sends a signal for those colleges to be even more strategic of designing dual enrollment to lead students into meaningful pathways at the community college.”"
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How Micro-credentials Can Support Social Mobility in Rural Communities - Digital Promise
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The Rapidly Changing Global Landscape of Microcredentials - The EvoLLLution The EvoLLLution
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Latino college enrollment was on an upswing. But Covid has taken a toll.
- Students dropped out for are a variety of reasons: Family members became sick or lost their jobs and the student had to help support the family. Or, they just couldn’t afford it anymore. And, instead of falling further behind, they decided to drop out.
- The pandemic also worsened some of the problems already faced by Latino college students including language barriers, challenges due to immigration status, or lack of knowledge of the application due to them being first-generation students.
- looking at the bigger picture, in one year, we saw five years of growth lost in terms of enrollment and representation and that is big.”
- Institutions across the country had to quickly adapt to the uncertainty of the Covid pandemic requiring them to make changes in order to provide their students with some sense of normalcy.
- The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, said that their enrollment numbers actually increased.
- the fact that UTRGV saw enrollment growth, while other schools experienced declines, to their financial assistance programs and other initiatives
- provide summer employment to their students and created a summer relief program. The institution continued these relief programs all the way through the fall semester.
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Supporting Two-Year Universities During COVID-19 · The Hunt Institute
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- The data released today shows that of the 2.6 million students who entered college as first-time freshmen in the fall of 2019, 74 percent returned for their second year — an unprecedented two percentage point drop, the lowest level since 2012.
- Not surprisingly, community colleges showed the steepest decline in persistence rates, down 3.5 percentage points to 58.5 percent. Community colleges attract a disproportionate number of low-income and minority students, and they have seen the most dramatic enrollment and persistence drops
- In most cases, the explanations are straightforward: These students needed to get jobs — even low-skill, low-paying jobs — to support their families. In theory, these students could return to college now that the pandemic has eased, but there’s little evidence in enrollment trends to suggest this is happening.
- Instead, they appear to be forming a missing generation of college students, an unprecedented phenomenon likely to affect the nation’s productivity rate for years. Any country’s international competitiveness is forecast by the skills acquired by young people entering the workforce.
- Before today’s data release, there was ample evidence to suggest a missing generation was taking shape. This spring, overall college enrollment fell by 603,000 students, from 17.5 million to 16.9 million — a drop that is seven times worse than the year before when the pandemic first hit and marks the sharpest year-over-year decline since 2011, the first year the Clearinghouse began keeping track.
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Persistence & Retention - National Student Clearinghouse Research Center
- Seventy-five percent of students who started college in the first fall of the COVID-19 pandemic returned for their second year. This persistence rate represents a one-year increase of 1.1 percentage points but has yet to recover to the pre-pandemic level in this important early student success indicator.
- Persistence rate is measured by the percentage of students who return to college at any institution for their second year, while retention rate represents the percentage of students who return to the same institution.
- The overall persistence rate of 75.0 percent represents a one-year gain of 1.1 percentage points (pp), more than the historical average, but the persistence rate is still below the pre-pandemic level (75.9%).
- The latest persistence rate gain is due to first-time students transferring out in their first year more than those remaining at their starting institution (+0.9 pp in the transfer-out rate vs. +0.2 pp in the retention rate). This is a reversal of last year’s trend, where the decline in the transfer-out rate had caused the first-year persistence rate to drop.
- Community colleges and private for-profit four-year institutions have led this year’s improvement. Other four-year institutions experienced small drops in both rates.
- Latinx students had a small rebound in persistence (+0.7 pp) following a major decline the year prior (-2.6 pp). Persistence rates increased in other major racial/ethnic groups except for Native American students, who saw a 2.8 pp decline. There was no notable improvement in retention, regardless of race and ethnicity
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New Federal Survey Data Show the Pandemic Has Hit Would-Be College Students Hard
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Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs): 2020-21 | Excelencia in Education
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For the first time in 20 years, the number of HSIs has decreased from 569 in 2019-20 to 559 in 2020-21. This decrease is due, in part, to enrollment declines, institutional closings, and consolidation during the pandemic.
In 2020-21, HSIs are located in 29 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. These institutions represent 18% of all institutions of higher education and enroll 66% of Latino undergraduates.
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Challenges and Strategies for Assisting Latino Students with College Access and Completion –
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Latino/a Student Enrollment Declines Amid COVID-19 | BestColleges
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HSI Facts - Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
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Hispanic-serving institutions seeing enrollment return after pandemic decline
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Latino college enrollment was increasing until the pandemic hit - The Washington Post
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Number of Hispanic Serving Institutions falls as pandemic cuts Latino enrollment
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Latino college students dropped out, quit classes during COVID-19
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COVID-19: Stay Informed - National Student Clearinghouse Research Center
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College enrollment is nowhere near pre-pandemic levels, experts worry - The Washington Post
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