By Chronicle Staff. Report: “The Pell Partnership: Ensuring a Shared Responsibility for Low-Income Student Success”
Organization: The Education Trust
Summary: The Education Trust gathered graduation rates for both Pell Grant recipients and nonrecipients of the need-based grants at 1,149 public and private nonprofit four-year colleges. More...
By Chronicle Staff. Report: “New College Graduates Report, 2013-14″
Organization: National Student Clearinghouse Research Center
Summary: For a growing share of college graduates, the degrees they’re taking home aren’t their first higher-education credentials. More...
By Andy Thomason. A German scientist has prohibited access to a widely used research tool he owns in European countries that he says are welcoming too many refugees, the magazine Science reports. More...
By Andy Thomason. The percentage of borrowers who defaulted on their student loans in the past three years has dropped again, from 13.7 percent in last year’s measurement to 11.8 percent this year. According to new data released on Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Education, the default rate for students who began repayment between October 1, 2011, and September 30, 2012, dropped among all sectors of higher education. More...
By Andy Thomason. The community-college borrowers most likely to default on their student loans are those with the least amount of debt, according to a new report from the Association of Community College Trustees. More...
By Andy Thomason. By 2017, the closure rate of small colleges is likely to triple from the rate of the past decade, according to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service that is available to the service’s subscribers. That will amount to a “small but notable rise” in the number of institutions that will shut their doors or merge, according to the report. More...
By Andy Thomason. The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates has announced the sites of the 2016 election’s three presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate. More...
By Andy Thomason. The State College of Florida will no longer offer continuing contracts to new faculty members, a change strongly opposed by professors at the Bradenton college as well as its president. The Bradenton Herald reports that the college’s trustees voted to end the tenure-like system for new professors, in part, they said, so the college would be able to fire misbehaving professors more easily. More...
By William Germano. If you want to speak of someone who has a teaching appointment you might refer to her or him as a faculty member or a member of the faculty.
If it were only that simple.
Since the 12th century, the term faculty has denoted a group, and not any group: a faculty is an indispensable aggregation and organization, the heart of any institution of higher education. More...
By Geoffrey Pullum. Last week I promised to explain why I was recently browsing in a little German grammar book I have owned since 1963. More...
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