By Madeline Will. With just 10 years to go until 2025 — the point at which the Lumina Foundation wants Americans to have a 60-percent college-attainment rate — there is still a gap of 20 percentage points between the goal and reality.
Forty percent of U.S. residents between the ages of 25 and 64 had at least an associate degree in 2013, according to the latest edition of an annual report that the foundation released on Thursday. More...
By Gabriel Zinny. Many cities in Latin America have taken the lead in promoting education reform, demonstrating that city-wide reforms could have a greater impact and present less difficulty than attempting to reform the system at a national level. More...
By Roger Riddell. Deserved or not, the for-profit sector is perhaps higher ed's most controversial. And in recent years, that reputation has brought on something of a state of upheaval.
Companies operating institutions in the space have seen their survival threatened by tighter federal regulations and proposals to provide free community college. More...
By Stephen Murgatroyd. There is a quiet but important scandal brewing in our universities. The symptoms of this scandal burst out occasionally, most recently at the University of Western Ontario, where the symptom is the $1 million a year compensation package paid to its President. More...
A bill moving through the Legislature serves to punish communities with colleges and technical institutes that dared to expand educational opportunities and workforce training programs in response to local demand. More...
By Jamie Merisotis. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) is the latest in a string of high-profile policymakers and employers who have questioned whether a college education is vital to success in America. This conversation is certainly worth having, but it’s only going to work if we start to come to grips with the fact that “college” is a very different notion than what many people assume. It’s time to start defining college in a new way that accurately reflects the needs of today’s students and the realities of the 21st century workforce. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. America’s colleges and universities are terribly inefficient and excessively expensive, foster relatively little learning and ability to think critically, and turn out too many graduates who end up underemployed. These and related problems have grown sharply in the half century since the Higher Education Act of 1965 heralded a major expansion of the federal role in higher education, but some mildly hopeful signs are now emanating from Capitol Hill. More...
By Matt Reed. Kevin Carey’s new book is on the bestseller list, and getting reviews in all sorts of high-profile places. Redesigning America’s Community Colleges, by Thomas Bailey, Shanna Smith Jaggars, and Davis Jenkins of the Community College Research Center, is likely to receive much less attention. And that’s a shame, because RACC is by far the more useful, grounded, and thoughtful of the two. Read more...By Matt Reed. If you knew that a college had its access to Federal financial aid money restricted due to concerns about risks to taxpayers and students, would you send your kid there?
The U.S. Department of Education plans to release on Friday the names of the nearly two dozen colleges it had redacted from the list of colleges it is watching more closely. Read more...
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