News Links | March 25, 2021
System News | Opinion
Opinion: Invest in Seattle Colleges for a path to higher education equity
... We all pine for peace. But this time, it may elude us unless we first — and at
last — deliver more justice. This is the catalyst behind Equity Can’t Wait, a new
campaign on behalf of the 41,000 students at the Seattle Colleges: South, Seattle Central and North.
The Seattle Times, March 24, 2021
Community Colleges of Spokane to host virtual commencement ceremonies
Spring graduation ceremonies for Spokane Community College and Spokane Falls Community College will be virtual due to COVID-19 concerns, college administrators said Wednesday.
SCC and SFCC will each host a live-stream ceremony June 18.
The Spokesman-Review, March 24, 2021
Program helping homeless students on Washington college campuses seeks to expand during pandemic
... In December, with the help of a state program, Cooper enrolled at Yakima Valley College and landed in a dorm where she had her own bed, a shower and a door that locked.
“My health, mentally and physically, drastically improved,” Cooper said. ... Two four-year
colleges and four technical and community colleges offer the program, which is administered
by the Washington Student Achievement Council and the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. Students now participate on six public campuses, including Eastern Washington University,
Edmonds College, South Puget Sound Community College, Walla Walla Community College, Western Washington University and Yakima Valley College.
Imprint News, March 23, 2021
U.S. needs coordinated, multi-lateral approach to China: Locke
Gary Locke, former U.S. ambassador to China and interim president at Bellevue College, discusses U.S.-China relations under the Biden administration, tariffs on Chinese
goods and tech competition between the two countries. He speaks on "Bloomberg Markets:
China Open." [Video]
Bloomberg, March 23, 2021
Trends | Horizons | Education
Freshmen and learning loss
For high school students, this year has been anything but normal. Many have taken
their classes remotely or in hybrid configurations -- modalities that are new to many
in K-12 education. Potential learning loss from this past year has been at the center
of debates around school reopening across the country. But for higher education, the
question is more narrow: Will students enter college less academically prepared than
previous semesters? And if so, what can institutions do to help?
Inside Higher Ed, March 25, 2021
Correction on high school students attending college this fall
The National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Research Center has updated data on new high
school graduates entering college last fall following a data processing error that
projected a far larger enrollment drop among those students. The decrease among 2020
high school graduates attending community college in the fall was -13.2%, according
to a new report from the center.
Community College Daily, March 25, 2021
New college students struggled last fall
A new report by the Center for Community College Student Engagement sheds more details
about the impact of the pandemic on first-time students at community colleges, which
have seen staggering drops in enrollments across the board, but especially among students
of color and first-time college students.
Community College Daily, March 25, 2021
COVID-era college: Are students satisfied?
... Community college students are less likely to report online learning challenges;
10 percent say they haven’t experienced any at all, compared to 2 percent of four-year
students. Perhaps two-year students are “less prone to complain about things, more
willing to dig in and get the work done,” says Generals. “Our students are incredibly
resilient. This is not the only trauma in their lives.”
Inside Higher Ed, March 24, 2021
Moody's raises higher ed outlook to stable
Moody’s Investors Service raised its outlook for the U.S. higher education sector
from negative to stable Monday, pointing to improved revenue potential for colleges
and universities over the next year to year and a half. The improvement is fueled
in part by tuition and auxiliary revenue standing to gain should prospects for a widespread
return to on-campus and in-person learning come to pass in the fall of 2021, according
to the ratings agency.
Inside Higher Ed, March 23, 2021
Politics | Local, State, National
Republican leaders call for keeping Trump Title IX regs
Two ranking Republican members of congressional education committees wrote to Secretary
of Education Miguel Cardona Tuesday, advocating for the U.S. Department of Education
to maintain Trump administration regulations that changed how colleges and universities
handle sexual misconduct on campus.
Inside Higher Ed, March 24, 2021
