Amid the torrent of pleas to President Trump this week to protect Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) are letters written by several university presidents. In a noteworthy showing of direct engagement in political discourse, the presidents of Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Duke, for example, have written personal letters this week. More...
Optimizing for conversions? Don’t rely solely on Google Attribution
While the new Google Attribution leverages data from Google Analytics, that platform alone may not yield the best conversion results. More...
Small private colleges can survive
With high school populations declining throughout New England and in several other regions of the country, it’s only natural to be concerned about the fiscal challenges confronting our nation’s private colleges and universities. More...
Degrees that Matter: The Value of Independent Sector Colleges and Universities to Students, Parents, and Communities
Ever since the first independent (private, not-for-profit) institution of higher learning was established centuries ago, these colleges and universities have served as a rising tide lifting students educationally, economically and socially. There is no greater engine for social mobility than a college degree. More...
Noam Chomsky leaves MIT to join University of Arizona faculty
The university announced earlier this month that Chomsky, 88, will serve as a laureate professor in the Department of Linguistics in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and will begin teaching next year. More...
The biggest misconception about today’s college students
Of the country’s nearly 18 million undergraduates, more than 40 percent go to community college, and of those, only 62 percent can afford to go to college full-time. By contrast, a mere 0.4 percent of students in the United States attend one of the Ivies. More...
Seven challenges facing higher education
For more than 15 years, I have redirected my academic career away from economic history, labor economics, and public finance towards the economics of higher education, and have made, with frequent urgency, several arguments, all pointing to a growing, unsustainable crisis that is requiring solutions. More...
Why Wheelock wants to merge with BU
For almost 150 years, Wheelock College has been proudly small.
It began in 1888, as Miss Wheelock’s Kindergarten Training School. More...
University of Georgia and AYTM partner
Market research platform AYTM (Ask Your Target Market) is proud to announce that they are the newest advisory board member and partner of the globally-renowned Master of Marketing Research (MMR) program at the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business. More...
Boston University, Wheelock College enter into merger talks
Boston University and Wheelock College, which is located on Boston's Riverway, have entered into formal talks about merging Wheelock with BU. More...