Higher-ed leaders are increasingly focused on institutional analytics, despite challenges associated with implementing enterprise-wide programs, according to a new Ellucian survey of 200 college presidents, provosts, CFOs, CTOs, and CIOs. More...
About one third of the students there are from out of state. That’s the highest percentage of out-of-state students in Virginia. More...
On Feb. 19, the Detroit Free Press asked the University of Michigan about an unpublished internal audit that had started in 2014. Auditors had been authorized to evaluate the university's investment office controlling a then-nearly $10 billion endowment, U-M's largest asset. More...
But the high-poverty city near New York probably would have lost her to another part of the country were it not for an innovative two-year-old honors program on Rutgers University’s Newark campus. More...
Year after year, the admissions process at selective colleges seems to make high-schoolers and their parents only more anxious. The numbers are wild: Harvard admitted just 4.6 percent of its nearly 43,000 applicants for the class that begins this fall. Stanford accepted only 4.29 percent, and Princeton 5.5 percent. More...
Many student employees are working multiple jobs in different departments on campus. Are they being paid from the right account? Are they working within the maximum hours allowed? Are sudden open shifts difficult to track or fill. More...
Where I live and work in Michigan, the K-12 public school systems have been ravaged by poorly regulated charter schools and new providers of public educational services operating outside the traditional structure of elected school boards and without unionized employees. More...
In the last couple of years, there are more cries for universities to have more “skin in the game,” that is to say greater incentives to show improved performance. More...
The state’s Board of Higher Education is seeking more power to intervene in failing colleges and universities to prevent the upheaval that has left Mount Ida College students and faculty displaced. More...
Over the past decade, policymakers and education leaders have recognized that, while high school graduation and college enrollment rates were important benchmarks, they were not sufficient indicators of ultimate student success. As a result, many education analysts and school districts around the country began to place greater importance on college completion, and to track completion rates among cohorts of high school graduates. More...
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