{"id":93195,"date":"2024-10-14T09:23:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T13:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=93195"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:26:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T13:26:20","slug":"college-competition-operational-pain-are-the-new-normal-sp-says-unglesbee-other-items-re-higher-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/10\/14\/college-competition-operational-pain-are-the-new-normal-sp-says-unglesbee-other-items-re-higher-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;College competition &#038; operational pain are the \u2018new normal,\u2019 S&#038;P says&#8221; [Unglesbee] + other items re: higher ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highereddive.com\/news\/community-colleges-optimism-enrollment-finance-sp\/729391\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>S&amp;P: Community colleges lifted by improved enrollment and finances<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from highereddive.com by Ben Unglesbee<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dive Brief:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With enrollment trends improving and state appropriations increasing, the community college sector has reason for \u201coptimism,\u201d according to a recent report from S&amp;P Global Ratings.<\/li>\n<li>For 2023, median full-time equivalent enrollment, at 5,439 students,\u00a0was down just 0.3% from 2021\u00a0and up nearly 8.1% from the previous year, S&amp;P found\u00a0among the roughly 200 community colleges it rates. That comes after enrollment in the sector fell 7.7% year over year in 2022,.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, median state appropriations per FTE student for the sector increased 19.1% to $4,930 between 2021 and 2023, analysts found.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highereddive.com\/news\/college-competition-operational-pain-new-normal-sp-ratings\/728862\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>College competition and operational pain are the \u2018new normal,\u2019 S&amp;P says<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from highereddive.com by Ben Unglesbee-<br \/>\n<em>Margins are down, costs are up and tuition revenue is constrained after the pandemic exacerbated existing challenges, according to a recent report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dive Brief:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S. colleges face a \u201cnew normal\u201d and accelerated existing challenges in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, including constrained operations and heavy competition, a recent report from S&amp;P Global Ratings found.<\/li>\n<li>Between 2018 and 2023, operating margin rates fell from 0.8% to -0.1% amid rising costs to colleges, according to S&amp;P. Meanwhile, median tuition discount rates at private colleges rose by more than 5 percentage points, to 44.4%, in that period, putting pressure on college revenues.<\/li>\n<li>From 2019 through the second quarter of 2024, the ratings agency issued 126 credit downgrades for the higher ed sector, compared to 62 upgrades, per the report.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highereddive.com\/news\/NACAC-5-ways-colleges-improve-outreach-rural-students-small-towns-STARS\/728860\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>5 ways colleges can improve outreach to rural students <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from highereddive.com by Laura Spitalniak<br \/>\n<em>Students from small towns help strengthen campus communities, said panelists at the National Association for College Admission Counseling\u2019s conference.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>We cannot just swoop in and take the best and brightest and just say, \u2018Oh, good job us.\u2019 We want this to be a two-way highway, not a one-way brain drain.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Marjorie Betley<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Deputy director of admissions at the University of Chicago<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scholarlyteacher.com\/post\/a-trauma-informed-teaching-framework-for-stewards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>A Trauma-Informed Teaching Framework for Stewards<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from scholarlyteacher.com by Jeannette Baca, New Mexico Highlands University; Debbie Gonzalez, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt; Jamie Langlois, Grand Valley State University; and Mary Kirk, Winona State University<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Using the Trauma-Informed Community of Inquiry (T-I CoI) framework as a pedagogical design helped us address students\u2019 emotional stress and facilitated cognitive growth and connection to the learning process. It also provided an opportunity to create a sense of community within an online learning environment. When we returned to in-person instruction, the model continued to be beneficial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S&amp;P: Community colleges lifted by improved enrollment and finances &#8212; from highereddive.com by Ben Unglesbee Dive Brief: With enrollment trends improving and state appropriations increasing, the community college sector has reason for \u201coptimism,\u201d according to a recent report from S&amp;P Global Ratings. 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