By Sara Goldrick-Rab. Rising tuition and student loan debts mean that more students are dropping out of or never go to university. Obama’s plan is a big part of the solution. More...
17 janvier 2015
11 janvier 2015
The Movement of Continuing Education Towards the Institutional Core
By James Broomall - EvoLLLution. Continuing education in the American research university has evolved significantly over the past decade, and its current status is ironic. This essay will consider continuing education’s historic place in the university environment and the irony accompanying its current acceptance at the university core. More...
11 janvier 2015
Obama proposes free community college for everyone
By . President Barack Obama rolled out a new plan on Jan. 8 to make two years of community college free, or nearly so, for millions of students across the country, a major investment that the White House cast as changing the face of higher education. More...
11 janvier 2015
Let's abolish West Point
By Stefanie Botelho. Many pundits have suggested that the Republicans’ midterm gains were fueled by discontent not merely with the president or with the (improving) state of the economy, but with government in general and the need to fund its programs with taxes. Indeed, the Republican Party of recent decades, inspired by Ronald Reagan’s exhortation to “starve the [government] beast,” has been anti-tax and anti-government. Government programs, as many of their thinkers note, primarily exist to perpetuate their own existence. At the very least, they have to justify that existence. More...
11 janvier 2015
Statement on the U.S.-Mexico bilateral forum on higher ed
By Stefanie Botelho. FOBESII builds on longstanding cooperation among our governments, the private sector and academic institutions, including in such areas as the Fulbright-Garcia Robles program, EducationUSA educational advising services and language instruction. It complements President Obama’s 100,000 Strong in the Americas initiative, which seeks to increase student mobility between the United States and the countries of the Western Hemisphere, including Mexico. More...
11 janvier 2015
Move to simplify federal student aid application form gains traction
By Stefanie Botelho. Donnaldo Escobedo knows that the key to his future lies in college and that the key to college lies in obtaining financial aid. More...
11 janvier 2015
What Students in China Have Taught Me About U.S. College Admissions
By . The policies of American universities often encourage extreme test-preparation strategies and distort the high school experience of many Chinese applicants.
I talk to more Chinese high school students than anyone else in the world.
At least I think I do: I operate — along with my wife — a company in China that interviews students on behalf of selective U.S. colleges and boarding schools. More...
11 janvier 2015
Barnard College Joins List Of 94 Colleges Under Title IX Investigations
By Tyler Kingkade. Barnard College, the women's liberal arts school affiliated with Columbia University, is under federal investigation for how it handles sexual violence, the U.S. Department of Education confirmed Wednesday. More...
11 janvier 2015
College Coaches' Salaries and Higher Education
By Andrew Zimbalist. One day after Jim Harbaugh was fired by the NFL's San Francisco 49ers, he signed a seven-year contract to coach at the University of Michigan. According to the Michigan Athletic Director, Harbaugh will be paid a guaranteed annual salary of $5 million, plus healthy bonuses for team success, a $2 million signing bonus and an unspecified amount of deferred salary. The AD said Harbaugh's compensation package is similar to what he got from the 49ers. More...
11 janvier 2015
Obama’s plan could hurt black colleges
By Michael L. Lomax. Recently, the Obama administration released the draft metrics of its long-awaited college rating system. Unfortunately, the proposed system appears to have major shortcomings — and it threatens to divert attention from the real challenges facing colleges and universities that educate large numbers of disadvantaged students.
Since the passage of the 1965 Higher Education Act, the role of the federal government has been to see that students with limited means get the opportunity for a college education. More...
Recently, the Obama administration released the draft metrics of its long-awaited college rating system. Unfortunately, the proposed system appears to have major shortcomings — and it threatens to divert attention from the real challenges facing colleges and universities that educate large numbers of disadvantaged students.
Since the passage of the 1965 Higher Education Act, the role of the federal government has been to see that students with limited means get the opportunity for a college education.
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