By Ashley A. Smith. New analysis of Oregon Promise tuition-free scholarship program found that it increased community college enrollment but decreased enrollment at four-year institutions in the first year, and that fewer first-generation and low-income students benefited financially than expected. More...
Failure to Launch
By Ashley A. Smith. A new report explains how and why a public-private partnership that sought to help more community college students transfer to selective universities failed. More...
University of Iowa Cuts Journal Subscriptions
By Lindsay McKenzie. Blaming unsustainable price increases, librarians at the university reach out to faculty members and graduate students to draw up a list of 820 journal subscriptions to cancel. More...
Are ‘Big Deals’ Actually Good Deals?
By Lindsay McKenzie. Cost is the No. 1 reason why colleges end their “big deals” with publishers, but not everyone thinks the agreements are really that expensive. More...
Coding Curriculum in a Box
By Lindsay McKenzie. CodePath.org, a nonprofit boot camp, offers ready-made, industry-approved coding courses to colleges and trains students to teach them for credit. More...
No Wrongdoing in ASU-Cengage Deal, Report Finds
By Lindsay McKenzie. An investigation into claims Arizona State University entered into an unethical deal with publisher Cengage has concluded there is “no evidence” the university did anything wrong. More...
Another 'Big Deal' Bites the Dust
By Lindsay McKenzie. Citing unsustainable price increases, leaders at Louisiana State University have decided to walk away from their comprehensive subscription deal with Elsevier. More...
Whose Dissertation Is It, Anyway?
By Lindsay McKenzie. Balking at a requirement to upload a copy of his doctoral thesis to an online database run by library services company ProQuest, one student pushes back. More...
ADA Lawsuit Prompts Institutional Change, Draws More Students
By Lindsay McKenzie. Atlantic Cape Community College reformed its accessibility practices after a disability discrimination lawsuit. Now students with disabilities are enrolling in record numbers. More...
Colleges Face Growing Cybersecurity Threat
By Lindsay McKenzie. Cyberattacks on higher education institutions are on the rise, Moody’s Investors Service reports. More...