By Scott Jaschik. Hillary Clinton will today unveil a massive plan to make higher education more affordable, student loan debt less burdensome and states accountable for supporting their public colleges. Read more...
16 août 2015
16 août 2015
Ending the FAFSA List
By Michael Stratford. The U.S. Department of Education plans to end its longstanding practice of giving colleges certain student information that some institutions may use against students as they apply for admission and financial aid. Read more...
16 août 2015
The Non-Ratings Future
By Michael Stratford. After more than two years of anxiety over how the Obama administration planned to judge their institutions, many college and university leaders exhaled deeply earlier this summer when federal officials dropped their plan to create a college ratings system. Read more...
16 août 2015
A Bigger Federal Role
By Michael Stratford. Hillary Clinton’s higher education plan announced Monday highlights the growing consensus among Democrats on how to tackle rising tuition: send federal money to states that agree, in return, to lower or eliminate tuition at their public colleges -- and enact other reforms. Read more...
16 août 2015
Does Online Ed Lack 'Integrity'?
By Carl Straumsheim. A line about the integrity of online learning in Hillary Clinton’s higher education plan has experts on online education questioning the candidate’s grasp of the market. Read more...
16 août 2015
Consortium Under Construction
By Carl Straumsheim. How do you build a higher education technology consortium from scratch?
Colorado State University, Indiana University, the University of Florida and the University of Michigan last summer announced the formation of Unizin, a digital learning consortium. Read more...
16 août 2015
Triaging Textbook Costs
By Carl Straumsheim. When the University of Michigan at Flint recently took inventory of the textbooks used by students during the winter 2015 semester, it found what American Enterprise Institute scholar Mark J. Perry called a “new milestone” in the textbook affordability debate: a $400 textbook. Read more...
16 août 2015
Access Broadens, Dropouts Soar
By Julie Hare for The Australian. Dropout rates at Australian universities have hit their highest level in eight years as booming enrollments of academically struggling students, particularly in regional and online courses, take their toll. Read more...
16 août 2015
Finding the Right Match
By Paul Fain. Only a small number of top-performing high school students from low-income backgrounds get admitted to elite colleges. This so-called undermatching problem has gained the attention of academic researchers, the White House and the news media in recent years. Read more...
16 août 2015
Anatomy of Failed Merger
By Kellie Woodhouse. Two neighbors on Massachusetts' North Shore -- Salem State University and the Montserrat College of Art -- spent more than half a year immersed in detailed and time-consuming merger negotiations, only to find in the end that a union that seemed beneficial at first would actually end up being a financial drain. Read more...
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