The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Tuesday released a report on how some states and colleges are using data to improve student graduation and retention rates. The foundation said the report is based on a decade's worth of lessons learned. Read more...

The number of colleges and universities designated as Hispanic-serving continues to grow, as does the proportion of all Latino students they enroll, Excelencia in Education reports. Read more...

A report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development found that about one in 10 university students in England have low basic skills in literacy or numeracy and suggests that many of these students should be diverted from university to shorter-term, professionally oriented programs. Read more...

By Courtney Kueppers. Report: “African Americans: College Majors and Earnings”Authors: Anthony P. Carnevale, Megan L. Fasules, Andrea Porter, and Jennifer Landis-Santos
Organization: Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce
Summary: While more African-American students attend college, they are overrepresented in majors that typically lead to low-paying jobs, such as human services and community organization, social work, and theology and religious vocations. More...

By Joseph E. Aoun. A report this month from the World Economic Forum says 5.1 million jobs could be lost over the next five years because of automation. In 2013 a study from the University of Oxford found that about 47 percent of jobs in the United States are at risk from automation. More...

In 2009, The White House Project: Benchmarking Women’s Leadership was released. This groundbreaking report examined the leadership roles of women across 10 sectors of the workforce in the United States. Key findings illustrated that women in academia make up more than half​ of all college students, but only slightly more than a quarter of all full professors and less than 15% of the presidents at doctoral degree granting intuitions. It also documented that female faculty members have not made progress in closing the salary gap—women made 83% of what male faculty made in 1972 and only 82% of what male faculty made in 2009. In 2013, the Colorado Women’s College at the University of Denver released the follow-up report, Benchmarking Women’s Leadership in the United States, expanding the depth and breadth of the original report.​​​

Higher Ed Spotlight: Pipelines, Pathways, and Institutional Leadership. Read more...