26 novembre 2017
25 novembre 2017
Road-Testing a New Paper
By Matt Reed. Spending on instruction vs. student aid.A new study suggests that colleges that want to improve their graduation and completion rates would do better to spend more on instruction than on financial aid. More...
25 novembre 2017
A Conference for Economically Vulnerable Institutions
By Matt Reed. Focusing on the real challenges.Josh Kim wrote this week about the possibilities offered by a conference focused on, and starring, economically vulnerable colleges and universities. More...
25 novembre 2017
Multi-Factor Placement With a Small Admissions Staff
By Matt Reed. At a meeting this week, I saw two articles of faith crash into each other. I’m trying to sort out the pieces. They were:1. High school GPA and course selection are better predictors of success in college than a single score on a placement test.
2. Hiring more staff (“administrative bloat”) is bad. More...
25 novembre 2017
The Limits of Collaboration
By Matt Reed. California's plans for an online college.Apparently, California is mulling creating a statewide online college, and it’s looking at three different models with which to do it. Model 1, which could work, involves designating one community college to be its home. Model 3, which could work, involves creating an entirely new organization. Model 2 involves a consortium. More...
25 novembre 2017
Ask the Administrator: Labeling OER Sections
By Matt Reed. At its core, it’s about disclosure. Students want to, and should, know which sections won’t require them to buy books. That may sound petty, but given the reality of student basic needs that Sara Goldrick-Rab and others have documented, it isn’t. California is many things, but a low cost-of-living state it is not. For a student on the economic margins, the difference between a couple of OER sections and a couple of sections with $200 textbooks could be the difference between staying and dropping out. More...25 novembre 2017
Financial Aid for PLA?
By Matt Reed. Adult students often know stuff for which they don’t have academic credit. When they can get transcripted credit for knowledge or skills they can document, they get a head start towards a degree. But giving them credit for what they can document is often a lot harder than it sounds. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)