By Scott Jaschik. Admissions group calls on colleges to require recruiting agents to disclose their financial ties to those they are seeking to recruit. Read more...
29 septembre 2016
28 septembre 2016
Muted GOP Defense of For-Profits
By Andrew Kreighbaum. As the Obama administration pushes tougher regulation, the sector is receiving little public backing from traditional allies. Read more...
28 septembre 2016
Tougher Scrutiny for Colleges With Low Graduation Rates
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Responding to sharp criticism, regional accrediting agencies will focus extra attention on institutions with below-average performance. Read more...
28 septembre 2016
Small Agency, Big Impact
By Andrew Kreighbaum. As second longtime target collapses and enforcement actions pile up, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau becomes key regulator of student loan industry and for-profit higher ed. Read more...
28 septembre 2016
Are Public Master’s Degrees Cost Efficient?
By Joanna Hughes. Many people assume that public higher education institutions are weighed down by bureaucracy to the point of extreme inefficiency. However, evidence recently published in the journal, Research in Higher Education, reveals that this is largely a misconception. The reality? The vast majority of master’s degree programs at state colleges and universities in the United States are actually efficient in their spending. More...28 septembre 2016
'Black Lives Matter' at Admissions Meeting
By Rick Seltzer. Fallout from a controversial statement was on full display Saturday at the annual membership meeting closing the National Association for College Admission Counseling’s 2016 national conference. Read more...
27 septembre 2016
Startup Receives Federal Grant to Expand Minecraft Student Reach
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Minecraft just received another education boost. An ed tech startup that encourages students to build their own mods for the popular online virtual world game has received a second grant from the National Science Foundation that will enable it to continue development of its coding environment for novice programmers. More...
27 septembre 2016
Getting Real About Today’s College Students
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. What are some of the most common misconceptions about today’s college students? Here are just a few: The typical college student is 18-24 years old and enrolls right out of high school. In fact, 40 percent of today’s college students are 25 or older. More...
12 septembre 2016
Cornell University welcomes 12-year-old college freshman
When he was two, Jeremy Shuler was reading books in English and Korean. At six, he was studying calculus. Now, at an age when most kids are attending middle school, the exuberant 12-year-old is a freshman at Cornell University, the youngest the Ivy League university has on record, writes Mary Esch for Associated Press. Read more...
12 septembre 2016
New film examines the push to commodify higher education
Should higher education be a profitable commodity or a public good? That’s the central question in the documentary “Starving the Beast”. Filmmaker Steve Mims turns his camera on the complicated battle over public universities and comes up with a movie that might be dry, but also feels necessary, writes Stephanie Merry for The Washington Post. Read more...
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