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Breaking Stories in Higher Ed 4/20/2021

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  • Students Complain: Too Much (Busy) Work in Online Classes

    Almost three in five students (59 percent) in a recent Wiley survey complained that they are doing more assignments online than they ever did in their in-person classes, and nearly as many (55 percent) protested that much of it felt like "busy work."

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  • Transfer Enrollment Decline Nearly 4 Times Larger than Last Year

    A first look of the latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center has found that overall transfer enrollment is down 7.9 percent this spring, a fall almost four times larger than last spring, when the decline was 2.1 percent.

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  • Texas CC Tests Career Exploration VR with Middle Schoolers

    Coastal Bend College, a community college serving five counties in the Coastal Bend region of Texas along the Gulf of Mexico, turned to virtual reality to help middle schoolers in the region figure out what careers they should declare for themselves as they enter high school, as well as to promote career and technical education (CTE).

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