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In addition to the new challenges traditional-aged students face in higher education due to their pandemic-related learning loss, today’s student demographics are changing, says EAB’s Alexa Silverman, senior director of student experience and well-being research.

The number of California school superintendents leaving their jobs is climbing, despite increased salaries and benefits. Some have reached retirement age or are moving to less stressful jobs.

In a report released earlier this year by the education consulting firm EAB, a growing number of teachers said they were the targets of disruptive behavior in their classes, and the number of teachers who said they saw physical violence between students more than doubled.

Based on a survey of 20,000 high school students, a report released earlier this summer by the consulting firm EAB showed over a fifth of them felt unprepared for college − up from 14% in 2019.

In 2017, EAB listed Virginia Tech as one of the three schools rethinking general education along with Northern Illinois University and University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. This was based on the “experiential learning” provided at Tech. The Pathways Program’s innovation has become well-known to many educational organizations, like EAB, due to its forward-thinking approach to general education.

Starting next year, Spring Hill College will offer free graduate school tuition to freshmen who complete a bachelor’s degree at the college within four years.

More than half of today’s college students are first-generation, and some of the country’s most populous states just so happen to have the highest concentration of such learners.

Preston will play a prominent role in student success efforts including oversight of EAB Navigate, Texas State’s new student success technology platform, and provide leadership in creating a collaborative university- wide culture for student success.

COVID has only exacerbated such inequities and made the job of college admissions teams harder, says Ed Venit, managing director at the EAB, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm specializing in education. “High school grades assigned in 2020 and 2021 may not be as precise as an indicator as they had been previously,” he says, as schools in various combinations of remote or hybrid scenarios had to assess students differently.