{"id":93407,"date":"2024-11-01T13:59:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T17:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=93407"},"modified":"2024-11-01T13:59:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T17:59:04","slug":"two-items-re-enrollment-data-for-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/11\/01\/two-items-re-enrollment-data-for-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Two items re: enrollment data for higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highereddive.com\/news\/undergraduate-enrollment-rises-3-percent-despite-drop-in-first-year-students\/730629\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Undergraduate enrollment rises 3% despite drop in first-year students, early data shows<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from highereddive.com by Laura Spitalniak<br \/>\n<em>Headcounts declined among students attending college directly after high school, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dive Brief:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Undergraduate enrollment rose this fall for the second year in a row, up 3% compared to similar early data from fall 2023, according to preliminary figures released Wednesday by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.<\/li>\n<li>Enrollment jumped 1.9% in bachelor\u2019s degree programs and 4.3% in those for associate degrees. While all credential types saw gains, the number of undergraduate certificate seekers increased the most, at 7.3%.<\/li>\n<li>However, enrollment among first-year students shrank 5%, the first dip since the decline seen at the start of the pandemic. Declining enrollment among 18-year-olds \u2014 a proxy for students who attend college directly after high school \u2014 accounted for most of that drop, the clearinghouse said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highereddive.com\/news\/preliminary-enrollment-data-fall-2024-insights-NCAN-clearinghouse-NSCRC\/731521\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What preliminary enrollment data from fall 2024 tells us<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from highereddive.com by Laura Spitalniak<br \/>\n<em>Higher education experts broke down some\u00a0trends in the early data and what may have prompted the decline in first-year students.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Higher education news tends to be a mixed bag, and the most recent enrollment report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center is no exception.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Last week, the clearinghouse released preliminary findings for fall 2024 and found that\u00a0undergraduate enrollment rose 3%\u00a0compared with early data from last year. On the other hand,\u00a0it showed enrollment among first-year students dropped 5% compared with the year before, the first decline since the drop at the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The youngest adults, 18-year-olds, drove a majority of the decrease, according to the clearinghouse. Its researchers used this group as a proxy for students who enroll in postsecondary education directly after they graduate high school, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undergraduate enrollment rises 3% despite drop in first-year students, early data shows\u00a0&#8212; from highereddive.com by Laura Spitalniak Headcounts declined among students attending college directly after high school, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found. Dive Brief: Undergraduate enrollment rose this fall for the second year in a row, up 3% compared to similar early data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,115,302,211,3,285,560,66,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-funding-grants","category-higher-education","category-legislation-legislatures","category-parents-guardians","category-student-related","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93468,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93407\/revisions\/93468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}