By Stefanie Botelho. America’s most prominent public universities were founded to serve the people of their states, but they are enrolling record numbers of students from elsewhere to maximize tuition revenue as state support for higher education withers. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. At the last legislative session, Rep. Mark Lowery drafted a bill seeking to bring the University of Central Arkansas in Conway into the Arkansas State University System. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. For my series of columns on community colleges, I have focused on efforts at the community college level to get students to move on to four-year state schools. I never thought much about their transferring to private colleges, a shameful mental lapse given what I have learned from a new report from the Edvance Foundation. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. More than 1 million veterans and their families are taking advantage of the Post-9/11 GI Bill to attend college. But thousands are still attracted to for-profit schools. Are they aiming high enough? Are for-profits really the best fit for those who served. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. Continuing to add more convenience, value, and fun to its already robust GET app, today CBORD announced some uber-exciting news: CBORD customers will be able to hail a ride on Uber and pay with their institutional ID card accounts. In a first-in-kind partnership for both parties, GET will be used as a means to authenticate payment for Uber. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. Those who check “yes,” even though they have never been convicted of any crime, face extra scrutiny — a call from the admissions office asking for additional information, the university says. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. There was a lot of hype around big data in higher education in 2015. Colleges and universities, inundated with data from legacy systems and incentivized by renewed accountability pressures, have begun to link disparate information from across the campus. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. Oregon’s flagship university boasts a well-heeled athletic program that has made it one of the most recognizable brands in college sports. Yet that has not shielded the University of Oregon from challenges facing many other public universities: A shrinking pipeline of local high school students and dwindling state appropriations. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. Oakland will launch a citywide effort Thursday to triple the number of college graduates coming out of public schools, an ambitious and expensive “cradle to career” plan that aims to reverse cycles of poverty and hopelessness by raising expectations that all children can thrive in school. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. As Gov. Bruce Rauner spoke about putting more money into classrooms in his State of the State address Wednesday, there are efforts within the General Assembly to reinstate higher education funding. More...
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