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Enrollment at California’s community colleges has dropped to its lowest level in 30 years, new data show. The stark decline has educators scrambling to find ways to meet the changing needs of students, who may be questioning the value of higher education as they emerge from harsh pandemic years.Since pre-pandemic 2019, the 115 campuses have collectively lost about 300,000 students, an alarming 18% drop that portends significant enrollment-based funding cuts if enrollment does not increase.That uncertainty has put the…

India is up. China is down. Very few U.S. students studied abroad during the first year of the pandemic. Those three points, in a nutshell, represent key findings from recent data released jointly on Nov. 14, 2022, by the U.S. Department of State and the Institute of International Education. The "Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange" is…

Most interactive Internet applications require a user to first be “registered” in order to use the application and then further require the user to “log on” each time they wish to use the application. This process of first enrolling a user and then later recognizing that user to allow them access may be described as User Authentication. This article focuses on the code and processes used in the registration component of our Authur user authentication system.Our demo Logon Portal allows users to access a web comic book…

Halfpoint Images | Moment | Getty ImagesIt's open enrollment season, the time each year when millions of American workers and retirees must choose a health plan, whether new or existing.But picking health insurance can be a dizzying venture. Health plans have many moving parts — which may not come into focus at first glance. And each has financial implications for buyers."It is confusing, and people have no idea how much they could potentially have to pay," said Carolyn McClanahan, a certified financial planner and…

Terrorist attacks in Kenya. The figure reports the number of casualties and attacks in Kenya. Panel (a) shows the geographic distribution of attacks occurring during the years 2001–2014, with radii indicating the number of casualties per attack. Panel (b) shows the increase in the number of attacks over time. Source: GTD; own calculations. Credit: Journal of the European Economic Association (2022). DOI: 10.1093/jeea/jvac054…

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Tuesday, Nov. 1 — T-minus seven days until the midterms. I’m Jon Healey, senior editor of the Utility Journalism Team, offering explanations and answers from my perch in South Pasadena. There’s not just an election looming, but it’s also a time when millions of Americans have to decide what kind of health insurance to carry for the coming year. Heaven forfend that we should ever need the coverage, but it’s a risky bet to go without insurance if you can…

College enrollment dropped for the third consecutive school year after the start of the pandemic, dashing universities’ hopes that a post-Covid rebound was at hand.The rate of the decline has slowed this fall, with college enrollment dropping 1.1% since last autumn. Over the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, enrollment fell about 6.5%, according to the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit that released a report Thursday. About 1.5 million fewer students are enrolled in college than before the pandemic,…

sturti | E+ | Getty ImagesDon't be surprised if you spend more time this year picking health-care benefits during open enrollment season. Between rising inflation, policy-specific changes and employees wanting more health-care services, many people won't be clicking the exact same boxes as last year.Last year during open enrollment — generally in the October and November timeframe — people spent an average of six additional minutes on their decision-making, according to Aon data. And that's likely to hold steady or…

As Comixology is gradually absorbed into “Kindle Unlimited”, many have wondered if another digital comics service will rise up to feature the kind of built-for-comics services that the standalone Comixology site and app once offered. Well, it is an uphill battle, but here’s some PR from GlobalComix, which has been around for a while, and is still in there kicking. They bill themselves as “a digital comics publishing platform that enables comic creators and publishers to upload, publish, monetize, and translate their…

Wendi Williams, dean of Mills College's School of Education, says there may be some unexpected advantages to the decrease in public school enrollment, which has had concrete impacts on public schools across the country. Credit: Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Schools in the U.S. resumed in-person learning last year, but enrollment in public schools across the country has failed to recover to pre-pandemic levels and, in…