By Andy Thomason. President Obama has backed away from his proposal to roll back tax breaks for 529 college-savings plans amid mounting political pressure, The New York Times reports. The proposal was slated to be a piece of Mr. Obama’s budget plan for the 2016 fiscal year, due on Monday. More...
01 février 2015
Amid Political Pressure, Obama Drops Plan to Curb College-Savings Plans
Another San Francisco Campus Closes Over Earthquake-Safety Concerns
By Andy Thomason. Officials at the community college announced on Thursday that it would close its second campus in three weeks out of earthquake-safety concerns, the San Francisco Examiner reports. The announcement three weeks ago—one day before classes were set to begin—that the college’s Civic Center campus would close was greeted with consternation from faculty members. More...
30 janvier 2015
Yale, US colleges invest in diversity among international students
By Michael Melia. Yupei Guo does not fit the mold of the traditional Ivy League student from China: Her journalist parents are neither rich nor members of the governing elite.
Growing up, she thought the cost would make it impossible for her to attend one of the famed American universities. But by the time she applied to Yale, it was among the U.S. schools investing in more economic diversity among their growing ranks of international students. More...
Educational Endowments Return 15.5 Percent In FY2014
A number of institutions increased practicing risk limits, guidelines and stress tests in managing their portfolios.
Educational Endowments attained a 15.5% average investment returns for the fiscal 2014, according to the NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments based on the final data from 832 colleges and universities in the United States. More...
A number of institutions increased practicing risk limits, guidelines and stress tests in managing their portfolios
Educational Endowments attained a 15.5% average investment returns for the fiscal 2014, according to the NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments based on the final data from 832 colleges and universities in the United States.
28 janvier 2015
When it comes to jobs, do young people really have it that bad?
Over at Canadian Business, Peter Shawn Taylor wrote about what he called the ‘youth unemployment myth’. Read his pitch for why youth have it better than we may think below, or click here for more leading business analysis from Canadian Business.
Few notions of the modern economy get more attention than the struggles of young Canadians in the job market. It’s become a sacred truth that today’s youth have it tougher than any time in memory when it comes to finding and keeping a job. More...
26 janvier 2015
Full-time college enrollment may not work for all
Findings from an effort to benchmark the persistence patterns of non-first-time (NFT) college students indicate that NFT students are less likely to drop out and more likely to complete an associate degree if they combine full-time and part-time enrollment. The findings could renew discussions about the efficacy of mandatory “15 credit per semester” policies at 2-year programs. More...
Is Obama’s plan the best use of money?
If the U.S. government had unlimited funds, it could provide free tuition for community college and no one would complain. For that matter, the nation could put all interested and qualified students through four years of college and beyond. But right here, right now, there are limits to the good the U.S. can accomplish with available public dollars–and that means careful, difficult choices have to be made. More...
Allow universities to restructure themselves through bankruptcy
By Dennis Cariello. Despite, or perhaps, because of, the higher education boom in the years immediately following the Great Recession, colleges and universities are now facing increased financial pressures. Enrollments are down by nearly one million students from 2012 levels. These decreases in enrollment have not only hurt everyone’s bottom line, but institutions are now subsidizing students that do enroll at exceedingly high levels. Add in the disruptions caused by innovations in the delivery of education and the financial constraints accompanying capital projects undertaken when times were good, it is unsurprising that analysts such as Bain & Company report that, over 60 percent of institutions are on an “unsustainable financial path” or at financial risk. More...
25 janvier 2015
Doing Better: NC has become a laboratory for higher education reforms
By Christopher Gergen and Stephen Martin. On the surface, at least, it's back to business as usual for colleges and universities across North Carolina as the spring semester gets underway.
At some of our state's institutions, however, the New Year promises to be anything but typical - a testing ground for bold reforms that could help re-shape the face of higher education nationally. More...
Obama outlines higher education initiatives in State of the Union address
By . President Barack Obama called for increased public investment in higher education during his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, laying out themes he is expected to elaborate on Thursday when he visits Kansas University.
Among other things, he called for offering two free years of community college for qualifying students; expanding tax credits for college tuition; and reducing monthly payments on existing student loan debt. More...
