By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Department of Education is scheduled to release this week its annual cohort default rates, which describe what percentage of borrowers are defaulting on their student loans. The data were due to be released to colleges on Monday and to the public in the middle of the week. Here’s what you need to know. More...
By Andy Thomason. The percentage of borrowers who defaulted on their student loans in the past three years has dropped across all higher-education sectors, according to data released on Wednesday by the U.S. Education Department. The overall default rate for borrowers who began repayment between October 1, 2010, and September 30, 2011, fell to 13.7 percent from the previous year’s 14.7 percent. More...
By Andy Thomason. A federal appeals court has agreed to expedite the NCAA’s appeal in the case O’Bannon v. NCAA, reports USA Today. The NCAA and the plaintiffs in the landmark case filed a joint motion last Friday asking that the appeal be put on a fast track so an appellate ruling can precede the permanent injunction that was ordered to take effect in 2015 by Judge Claudia Wilken of the U.S. District Court in Oakland. More...
By Andy Thomason. College enrollment dropped by 463,000 students from 2012 to 2013, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released on Wednesday. It is the second year in a row that college enrollment dropped nationally. According to the statistics, a 10-percent enrollment drop at two-year colleges fueled the overall decline. Enrollment at four-year colleges grew by 1 percent. More...
By Chronicle Staff. Report: “A Federal Work Study Reform Agenda to Better Serve Low-Income Students”
Authors: Rory O’Sullivan and Reid Setzer
Organization: Young Invincibles
Summary: The formula for determining how federal work-study funds are allocated to colleges and universities is outdated, the report says, often favoring larger, private colleges instead of community colleges and other institutions that serve many low-income students. More...
By Chronicle Staff. Report: “Ethnic Variation in Gender-STEM Stereotypes and STEM Participation: An Intersectional Approach”
Publication: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, a journal of the American Psychological Association
Summary: Although black women show more interest in majoring in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics than white women entering college, they are less likely to earn a degree in those fields, the paper’s authors found. Black men and women are also less likely than their white peers to subconsciously associate the so-called STEM fields with masculinity. More...
By Chronicle Staff. Report: “Codifying Collegiality: Recent Developments in Data Sharing Policy in the Life Sciences”
Authors: Genevieve Pham-Kanter, Darren E. Zinner, and Eric G. Campbell
Journal: PLoS ONE
Summary: The paper, based on a study conducted by researchers at Drexel, Brandeis, and Harvard Universities, represents an attempt to measure the effectiveness of policies instituted by funding agencies and journals to encourage the wider sharing of data by scientists. More...
By Eric Hoover. Indianapolis — Gray areas, pink hair, and a silver scooter. I heard about all of those over three days here at the National Association for College Admission Counseling’s annual conference, where officials shared concerns about many issues. The challenge of recruiting students in this high-tech age. The relentless need to bolster the bottom line as institutional budgets remain tight. And the weight of expectations—some reasonable, some not—to deliver a bigger, better freshman class each year. More...
By Peter Schmidt. Brian Leiter may be a law professor, a philosopher, and the editor of an influential report that ranks universities’ philosophy departments. But when it comes to dealing with people he regards as being out of line, a different feature comes to the fore: "I’m a New Yorker." Read more...By Rebecca Koenig. Anonymous posts on a smartphone application called Yik Yak are facilitating conversations on college campuses, but the dialogue is not always fit for the classroom. Discussions on the app sometimes dredge up racist, sexist, and other degrading content, and students at multiple colleges have been arrested for using Yik Yak to post threats to campus safety. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
