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College of DuPage leaders remain optimistic as to how the institution is weathering the pandemic, reporting that fall 2021 headcount is down only a slight 0.8 percent over 2020 figures. This equates to 21,172 students this fall as compared to 21,267 students fall term 2020.
Most community colleges in the Chicago area are encouraging -- not requiring -- vaccinations, despite guidelines from the Illinois Board of Higher Education urging schools to make COVID-19 shots mandatory. Students at College of DuPage, however, must be vaccinated before in-person or hybrid classes begin next spring.
WKBT July 1, 2021 5:00 PM Colin Beresford Posted: Updated: Getty Images College enrollment has fallen for the second semester in a row compared with year-earlier periods. And the drop through the spring of this year was worse than it was in fall 2020. For the spring semester, overall enrollment declined 3.5% from the previous spring, according to estimates released by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center on June 10. Last fall, enrollment fell 2.6% year over year. The estimates weren’t surprising to Bill DeBaun, director of data and evaluation at the National College ...
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Posted6/1/2021 5:30 AM Suburban community colleges set to receive millions of dollars more in federal COVID-19 relief funding in the coming months are stepping up efforts to help students in need with tuition costs and other expenses, as well as using the money to mitigate the pandemic's impact on their budgets. The American Rescue Plan authorized in March provides more than $36 billion in emergency grants, including $10 billion to community colleges, $2.6 billion to historically Black colleges and universities, and $6 billion to Hispanic- and other minority-serving institutions. Illinois' sh...