By Scott Jaschik. A few years back, many seeking to reform college admissions focused on early decision, under which applicants pledge to enroll if admitted, and both apply and find out if they got in months before the normal schedule. Read more...
By Paul Fain. Oregon’s Umpqua Community College on Thursday became the site of the third-most-deadly mass shooting ever to occur on a college campus. Read more...
By Michael Stratford. The share of federal student loan borrowers who default on their debt within three years of entering repayment dropped for the second year in a row, the U.S. Department of Education announced Wednesday. Read more...
By Michael Stratford. In a report released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Education, administration officials outlined a range of recommendations for improving the nation’s student loan system, most of which require congressional action. Read more...
By Carl Straumsheim. It’s a familiar scenario at many colleges: a professor sends a student an email containing important information about a course, but the message gets lost in an inbox flooded with news about blood drives, intramural softball and spam. Read more...
By Carl Straumsheim. The rise of open-access publishing, combined with pressure on academics to get published, has caused a spectacular increase in the number of articles spewed out by “predatory” journals, according to researchers at Finland’s Hanken School of Economics. Read more...
By Doug Lederman. The debate over how much actual learning is taking place on college campuses is a historically heated one, as is the related discussion about how to measure that learning. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. Many humanities and social science Ph.D.s leave graduate school and are thrust into adjunct employment as they seek out more permanent positions. Others take on postdoctoral fellowships -- essentially full-time teaching or research gigs -- under one or two-year contracts that may offer little in the way of mentorship. Read more...
By Paul Fain. Community colleges are relatively affordable, and their students tend to borrow less than those who attend other types of institutions. Yet the debt students rack up at community colleges is troubling. Read more...
By Kellie Woodhouse. Closure rates of small colleges and universities will triple in the coming years, and mergers will double. Read more...
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