By Matt Zalaznick. More than a third of higher ed leaders "very concerned" about maintaining enrollment, survey says.
College enrollment plummeted by half a million students in fall 2012 after several years of strong growth, the U.S. Census Bureau says. The number of graduate and undergraduate students fell last year after increasing by 3.2 million between 2006 and 2011. The decline was led by a drop of 419,000 in students 25 and older. The number of young students fell by only 48,000. More...

America’s immigration system does not meet our needs and has not done so for years. A recent study found that reform measures like those featured in the bill just passed by the U.S. Senate would add $903 million to the North Carolina economy and create over 11,000 jobs – in the first year alone. I am hopeful that the U.S. House of Representatives can seize the opportunity that will lie before it and pass a workable immigration reform plan this year. More...

The merger of the North Dakota Education Association and the North Dakota Public Employees Association gives the combined union more than 10,000 members, making it larger than all of the others in the state combined. Despite their agreement to go it together Friday, the two groups haven’t always been in lockstep. More...

Kiersten Slawter didn't have to go far to find her dream college. The Berks County native, a graduate of Twin Valley High School, knew Albright College was her top choice the moment she stepped on campus. 
But her mother and father had a hard time getting past its roughly $47,000 price tag for the coming academic year's tuition and fees. They suggested she consider some of the less-expensive state universities, so she applied to Shippensburg, Bloomsburg and Millersville. More...

Standardized testing in K-12 education is a perennial hot button issue. Proponents feel that measuring knowledge in these rigid ways helps lift the entire educational system. Critics say the measurements do nothing but encourage “teach to the test” methods and narrow the scope of what instructors are able to teach if they want to have acceptable test results. These arguments are nothing new, but they are now seeing a new audience. More...

As back-to-school season arrives, thousands of students are bringing their own computers, smartphones, tablets and gaming systems, further testing colleges' network security. Increasingly, universities are looking at ways to enable greater accessibility while maintaining acceptable usage policy. Offering an easier, more flexible and cost-effective approach to network access control (NAC), institutions are deploying ForeScout CounterACT to gain complete visibility and control of every device and user connecting to the networks. More...