By Lindsay McKenzie. Seven colleges and universities are working with industry partners to develop digital badges to help underserved students display their skills and gain employment as part of a pilot project called #TeeUpTheSkills. More...
Outrage Over University's $999 Online Textbook
By Lindsay McKenzie. An online textbook priced at almost $1,000 has infuriated students trying to navigate an already confusing textbook marketplace, but Louisiana-Lafayette officials insist they had "good intentions." More...
Performance Funding and Certificate and Degree Production
By Paul Fain. State performance-funding policies that link a relatively high percentage of base funding for community colleges to student outcomes on average lead to more short-term certificate (instructional time of a year or less) completions and fewer associate-degree completions, according to a new study. These results suggest potentially damaging consequences for students, because short-term certificates tend to lead to negative or minimal wage gains, while associate degrees offer substantial wage gains. More...
ACICS Sanctions Danish Business College
By Paul Fain. The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, an embattled national accrediting agency, has sanctioned Niels Brock, a Danish business college, over concerns that the college lacks approval from the Danish government to issue bachelor's degrees. More...
Moody's: Graduate Business Schools Face Credit Concerns
By Paul Fain. Moody's cited fall application data from a survey conducted by the Graduate Management Admissions Council, which founded that 59 percent of U.S. business schools saw a decline in applications, with a 6.6 percent overall decline in volume. More...
Report: 4 Million Californians Left College Without Earning a Degree
By Paul Fain. A new report from California Competes found that four million Californians between the ages of 25 and 64 completed some college courses but do not hold a degree. More...
New Life for ACICS
Credentialing Evolves as Demand Grows for Middle-Skills Jobs
By Paul Fain. The bachelor's degree remains by far the best ticket to a well-paying job, according to new research from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, which defines "good jobs" as ones that pay at least $35,000 -- and an average of $56,000 for workers with less than a bachelor's degree. More...
Degrees Outpace Job Requirements in Most Cities
By Paul Fain. A new report from the Urban Institute used federal data to analyze the "mix-match" between the share of residents with four-year degrees (or some college) and the share of jobs requiring college educations in 387 metropolitan areas. The institute found that mix-matches are common, and that this challenge is unlikely to change soon. More...
Report on How Families Pay for College
By Paul Fain. Families spent an average of $26,458 on an undergraduate education during the most recently completed academic year, according the latest results of a survey Sallie Mae, the large student lender, has conducted since 2008. More...