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18 novembre 2015

Poll on Veterans in Higher Education

HomeA new report from a broad, ongoing Gallup-Purdue University study of quality-of-life measures for college graduates looks at how veterans and active-duty members of the U.S. military are faring in higher education. Read more...
18 novembre 2015

Upstart Auditor for Boot Camp Experiment

HomeA recently announced experiment by the U.S. Department of Education will allow a handful of nontraditional providers -- including boot camps and online course providers -- to team up with accredited colleges on academic offerings that will be eligible for federal financial aid. Read more...
18 novembre 2015

Citing Link to Slavery, Students Urge Harvard Law to Change Seal

HomeA student group is demanding that Harvard University's law school change its seal, which they say honors a family that participated in the slave trade, The Boston Globe reported. Read more...
18 novembre 2015

White House Push on Veterans' Education

HomeThe Obama administration this week announced several new efforts it said would help veterans of the U.S. military get more out of their college educations. The White House said it was unveiling a redesigned version of a federal GI Bill Comparison Tool, drawing new data from the broader College Scorecard to give veteran-specific data on graduation and retention rates. Read more...
18 novembre 2015

Clinton Was Advised on Options for a Higher Ed Venture

HomeIn the final months of Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, one of her advisors drafted ideas for how she could create a public policy school, newly released emails show. Read more...
18 novembre 2015

Broad Coalition's Goals for the Higher Education Act

HomeA coalition of 12 organizations, including New America, the Business Roundtable, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Center for Law and Social Policy, on Wednesday released a set of shared principles for policy makers to consider in the run-up to the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, the law that governs federal aid programs. Read more...
17 novembre 2015

Forever Is a Long, Long Time

HomeBy John Thelin. “Endowments ’R’ Us!” Now that’s a fitting motto for American higher education.
College and university presidents like large endowments for both their real and symbolic benefits. Read more...

17 novembre 2015

High Impact, Largely Optional

HomeBy Scott Jaschik. The Association of American Colleges & Universities has over the years embraced numerous practices as key to promoting student learning, student engagement and student completion. The practices and their goals are all linked since students who are more engaged tend to learn more and are more likely to graduate. Read more...

17 novembre 2015

Large For-Profit Settlements

HomeBy Michael Stratford. The Obama administration and a large coalition of state attorneys general announced on Monday a double hit against one of the nation’s largest for-profit education companies. Read more...

17 novembre 2015

The Structure of Instructure

HomeBy Carl Straumsheim. Instructure’s incursion into the learning management system market reached a new stage last month as the company filed for its initial public offering. As the company prepares to go public, paperwork filed with the federal government suggests Instructure still spends about 80 cents on sales and marketing for every dollar it brings in. Read more...

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