Over the past six decades, opportunities for high school students to earn college credit have multiplied. From early career and technical education offerings to the Advanced Placement Program (AP ), to several different models of dual enrollment and early college high schools, these programs now serve millions of students each year. More...
Brown to eliminate loans from undergrad aid packages
Brown University has achieved its initial fundraising goal of $30 million to pave the way for replacing loans with scholarship funds in financial aid packages for all returning and incoming undergraduate students starting in the 2018-19 academic year. More...
Ivy Tech to give help to SNAP recipients
Ivy Tech's Fort Wayne campus announced Monday the start of a pilot program designed to alleviate non-academic barriers for students receiving federal nutrition assistance benefits. More...
Universities, companies fight to keep tax-free tuition assistance
Universities and companies are joining forces to lobby Congress to keep a tax provision that allows employers to give staff as much as $5,250 in yearly tax-free tuition help. More...
Iowa higher ed braces for tax overhaul consequences
Changes from Washington are coming to Iowa’s higher education institutions and those they serve, and campuses are bracing for — if not protesting — the implications. More...
Moving away from non-credit developmental ed to support retention
In a sweeping move to improve how students receive academic support in their first year of college, the California State University (CSU) system recently eliminated remedial—or developmental education—perquisites in favor of more effective models. More...
HU unveils Philadelphia location, partnership
Officials from Harrisburg University of Science and Technology on Friday officially cut the ribbon on the school's new location in downtown Philadelphia and announced a new agreement with the city's community college. More...
The world might be better off without college for everyone
I have been in school for more than 40 years. First preschool, kindergarten, elementary school, junior high, and high school. Then a bachelor’s degree at UC Berkeley, followed by a doctoral program at Princeton. More...
Non-profit organization files complaint against UF
A non-profit organization that investigates animal abuse in research facilities, has filed a complaint against University of Florida personnel. More...
Okla. task force discusses higher ed
A restructuring plan for Oklahoma’s public colleges would move seven institutions under the authority of larger governing boards capable of better providing services to students. More...