By Matt Reed. Josh Kim, following Jeff Selingo, asked yesterday why higher ed’s adoption of technology hasn’t cut costs. For present purposes, I’ll focus on cost of provision, rather than price. More...By Matt Reed. The guided pathways movement has made great headway in community colleges, and rightly so. It’s based on the notion that students don’t necessarily arrive knowing exactly what major to pick or how to get through it on time, so they need legible signs and advising to know what to take. More...By Matt Reed. Sometimes a couple of news stories intersect in ways that suggest another story altogether. That happened this week with the collision of two bits of news. The first was that despite all the hand-wringing about the death of the humanities in higher education, humanities enrollments at community colleges have been rising steadily for decades. More...By Matt Reed. The wrong villains.By Matt Reed. If you haven’t yet seen David Leonhardt’s infographic on higher ed spending across the states since 2008, check it out. Except for a few small states that rode the fracking boom, nearly every state still funds public higher ed at a lower level than it did in 2007. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
