Publication Date
In 2025 | 12 |
Since 2024 | 66 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 190 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 318 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 532 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
Practitioners | 143 |
Policymakers | 79 |
Administrators | 73 |
Researchers | 35 |
Teachers | 33 |
Community | 4 |
Students | 2 |
Counselors | 1 |
Parents | 1 |
Location
Canada | 118 |
California | 59 |
Illinois | 49 |
Australia | 42 |
New York | 35 |
United Kingdom (England) | 33 |
United States | 30 |
Pennsylvania | 28 |
Iowa | 26 |
Minnesota | 26 |
Michigan | 23 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
William J. Rowley – International Dialogues on Education, 2022
This paper is a follow-up to determine the accuracy of the predictions stated in a previously published article titled "Higher Education in the Midst of a Pandemic: A Dean's Perspective" (Rowley, 2020). Those predictions were more like educated guesses since the paper was written in 2020, the year the pandemic was beginning to spread…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics
Lockhart, Brooke – College and University, 2019
The higher education landscape is changing rapidly, and with nationwide trends of declining enrollment, colleges and universities are faced with the challenging task of understanding what that means for them. In the state of Missouri, two- and four-year institutions have experienced decreases in enrollment, with an overall decrease of 9 percent…
Descriptors: Mentors, College Transfer Students, Student Experience, Declining Enrollment
Foster, Ian – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2019
A greater level of informal language learning is now taking place than at any time in human history. Much of that learning is linked to unprecedented levels of migration across the globe. This poses challenges to the identity of higher education language teachers, particularly in the UK, where numbers of modern language students have stagnated,…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Modern Languages
Carnevale, Anthony P.; Strohl, Jeff; Van Der Werf, Martin; Quinn, Michael C.; Campbell, Kathryn Peltier – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2019
Judging from how much high school students and their parents worry about standardized test scores, one might presume that an SAT or ACT score is the primary factor in college admissions. But a look at the numbers reveals a different reality. A review of SAT and ACT standardized test scores among students in a recent class at the nation's 200 most…
Descriptors: College Admission, Selective Admission, College Entrance Examinations, Admission Criteria
Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Preparation, Iowa Department of Education, 2019
The Iowa Department of Education collects enrollment information from all 15 community colleges. This report summarizes several aspects of community college enrollment. Some highlights of this report include: (1) Fall 2019 enrollment decreased 1.7 percent to 88,375 students; (2) Part-time enrollment remained larger than full-time students and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Enrollment Trends, Full Time Students
National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has gathered highlights from a variety of data sources to provide a composite, high-level view of the complex American education landscape since the onset of the pandemic. In this first installment of the pandemic data hub, NCES provides findings related to: (1) changes in in-person instruction…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Academic Achievement, Educational Opportunities
Wodon, Quentin – Journal of Catholic Education, 2021
While enrollment in Catholic schools is rising in the global south, it is declining in many Western countries. Providing a quality and holistic education experience remains essential in both developed and developing countries, especially for disadvantaged groups. But in addition, in developed countries, trade-offs may have to be confronted to stem…
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Catholic Schools, Costs, Enrollment Trends
Kortt, Michael A.; Pervan, Simon J; Hogan, Owen – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify and discuss the drivers behind the rise and fall of the Australian Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) and to assess its future. Design/methodology/approach: Data covering the period 1993-2013 was sourced from the Commonwealth Department of Education and Training to provide a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education, Doctoral Programs, Declining Enrollment
Glenn Jones, Patrice W.; Davenport, Elizabeth K. – Thought & Action, 2018
Changes in the academy have coincided with social shifts, community growth, student needs, and global conversions. During the 1990s, online learning began to receive national attention, and since 2010, online course enrollment has consistently increased. In 2014, 28 percent of all students attending postsecondary, degree-granting institutions were…
Descriptors: Resistance to Change, Black Colleges, Electronic Learning, Online Courses
Todoran, Corina – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Over the past decade, due to globalization and expansion of higher education institutions worldwide, the U.S. has positioned itself as the top choice for students pursuing university degrees abroad, with a record of 1,078,822 international students in 2016-2017 (Institute of International Education, 2017). Nonetheless, a 5.5% decline in new…
Descriptors: Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Foreign Students, Graduate Students
Delisle, Jason D.; Cooper, Preston – American Enterprise Institute, 2018
Much of the research on economic stratification at selective colleges relies on data with limitations that tend to restrict how comprehensively or accurately studies can assess the incomes of students enrolled at selective universities, particularly over time. Studies that use quality data tend to find that the share of students at selective…
Descriptors: Low Income, College Students, Student Financial Aid, Selective Admission
Bennett, Christopher; Arbeit, Caren – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
In the study of science and engineering graduate education in the U.S., two themes that have received extensive attention individually are the persisting underrepresentation of women and the significant growth in enrollment among foreign nationals. Using data from a census of U.S. science and engineering graduate programs, this paper examines a…
Descriptors: Females, Science Education, Engineering Education, Graduate Students
Butler, Jesse K.; Kane, Ruth G.; Cooligan, Fiona R. – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2019
In 2017, school board trustees in Ottawa, Ontario, voted to close Rideau High School, an urban secondary school in a historically marginalized neighbourhood. The school board had argued that low enrolment at Rideau HS, and the resultant inability of the school to offer a full range of course choices, made closure the only viable option. To many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Closing, Board of Education Policy, Declining Enrollment
Holman, Don – Applied Language Learning, 2021
Whereas major research universities may accommodate programs of study in Arabic, Chinese, or Persian, regional universities and liberal arts colleges have struggled to adapt to a wider and more complex array of world languages and literatures in the 21st century. Many have been forced to choose between radically restructuring or closing programs…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Modern Languages, College Second Language Programs
Butcher, John – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2020
In this paper John Butcher challenges policymakers and the English higher education sector to act urgently to address the decline in part-time higher education. Although the drop in part-time student numbers has been well-reported in a series of quantitative studies, the problem persists. The dramatic reduction in part-time learners…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Part Time Students, Student Experience, Higher Education