By Rosanna Tamburri. York U prof says to focus on quality, not expansion, in higher ed reform. Canadian universities have gone through an unprecedented expansion over the past 15 years. In Ontario, full-time undergraduate enrolment grew by a whopping 75 percent from 1998 to 2008; graduate enrolment was up too, by 60 percent at the master’s level and 70 percent at the PhD level. Federal spending on research increased almost fourfold over the decade. More...
By Catharine Tunney. Data suggests more people looking to top off university degrees with a college certificate.
There's been a spike in the number of students with university degrees enrolling at the Nova Scotia Community College, according to an internal survey of the college's first year students. In 2006, six per cent of new students at NSCC already had a university degree. By 2012, that number had jumped to 21 per cent. More...
By . The rising cost of going to college and increasing student debt is due more to decreases in state funding than bloated administrative spending and salaries, according to a new report, reports Inside Higher Ed.Ohio received an overall grade of “F” in its support for public institutions, said the Young Invincibles organization, which released report cards gauging each state’s investment in higher education. More...
By . When Hannah Benbow ran into problems with the for-profit college she attended, she turned to the federal government for help.
Benbow, 24, wrote to the U.S. Department of Education when the Art Institute of Washington in Arlington, Va.—one of more than 50 for-profit Art Institute campuses across the country—told her unexpectedly that she would need to apply for yet another student loan, on top of the nearly $120,000 she’d already borrowed, to cover $7,000 in fees she said were not disclosed to her before she signed up. More...
Par Maryline Baumard. Ah, les universités américaines… leur prestige, leur rayonnement ! Ah, ces temples à médailles Fields et à Nobel pour lesquels la jeunesse était traditionnellement prête à s'endetter à vie… Vous seriez surpris si on vous disait que les Américains nés en l'an 2000 et après vont tenter d'éviter le passage par cette case qu'on croyait obligatoire ? C'est pourtant ce qui est en train de se tramer de l'autre côté de l'Atlantique. Suite...
By . An attempt to fight racism at a community college may have backfired.
A group of employees at South Puget Sound Community College sent out an invitation to all 300 staffers.
The "Staff, Faculty and Administrators of Color" encouraged employees to reply to the invitation to find out the confidential date and time of what was being called a "happy hour" to "build support and community" for people of color.
The invite made it clear white people were not invited. More...
By . The Obama administration on Friday set the stage for a new round in the years-long fight over its controversial gainful-employment rule, with the formal release of a new proposal that comes some 20 months after a federal judge blocked key parts of the original version. The proposal seeks to cut off federal financial aid to career-oriented programs whose graduates have high student-loan debt relative to their incomes. Read more...
By . Nine college presidents sat down with Chronicle reporters here at the American Council on Education’s annual meeting to talk about leadership.
Sharing their experiences were Thomas R. Rochon of Ithaca College, John Bassett of Heritage University, Horace Mitchell of California State University at Bakersfield, John R. Kroger of Reed College, Earl H. Potter of St. Cloud State University, Diana S. Natalicio of the University of Texas at El Paso, Teresa A. Sullivan of the University of Virginia, Mary Sue Coleman of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and Ricardo Azziz of Georgia Regents University. More...
By Goldie Blumenstyk. Why is the Department of Education proposing a new gainful-employment rule?
Most of the original proposed rule was thrown out by a federal district court in June 2012, after the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, the main trade group of the for-profit-college industry, challenged it in a lawsuit.
A judge appointed by President Obama agreed that the department had the right to issue the regulation but said the department had been "arbitrary and capricious" in setting the thresholds for one of the three key criteria it would use to determine whether a program would lose eligibility for federal student aid. More...
By . When Hannah Benbow ran into problems with the for-profit college she attended, she turned to the federal government for help.
Benbow, 24, wrote to the U.S. Department of Education when the Art Institute of Washington in Arlington, Va.—one of more than 50 for-profit Art Institute campuses across the country—told her unexpectedly that she would need to apply for yet another student loan, on top of the nearly $120,000 she’d already borrowed, to cover $7,000 in fees she said were not disclosed to her before she signed up.
“Since my parents and family have already co-signed my other ridiculous amount of loans, they were denied on this one,” Benbow wrote in her letter to the agency, whose responsibilities include regulating higher education.
She never got an answer. More...
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