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By Steve Kolowich. A consortium of 10 top-tier universities will soon offer fully online, credit-bearing undergraduate courses through a partnership with 2U, a company that facilitates online learning.
Any students enrolled at an “undergraduate experience anywhere in the world” will be eligible to take the courses, according to Chip Paucek, the CEO of 2U, which until recently was called 2tor. The first courses are slated to make their debut in the fall.
After a year in which the top universities in the world have clambered to offer massive open online courses (MOOCs) for no credit, this new project marks yet another turning point in online education. It is the first known example of top universities offering fully online, credit-bearing courses to undergraduates who are not actually enrolled at the institutions that are offering them. More...

By Beth McMurtrie. The story, once again, is China. Thousands of mainland Chinese students in pursuit of an American education helped drive up international enrollments at colleges across the United States last fall, according to the latest "Open Doors" report from the Institute of International Education. Double-digit growth from China, primarily at the undergraduate level, along with a steady uptick in Saudi Arabian students are largely responsible for the increase in international enrollments to 764,495, a 5.7-percent rise over the year before.
These drivers are so significant that for the first time in 11 years there are more international undergraduate than graduate students in the United States.
"That's likely to be a game changer," says Allan E. Goodman, the institute's president. Undergraduates not only stay longer, he noted, but have more impact on campus culture, both inside the classroom and out. More...

By Aisha Labi. Immigration moved to the forefront of the political discussion in more than one country over the past year, increasing public attention on international students in destinations that include Britain, Canada, and Australia.
Britain, which attracts more overseas students than any country but the United States, set a largely negative tone. Its coalition government has pledged to reduce the number of immigrants, and, despite intense lobbying by universities, has chosen to include students in those figures.
The British government's recent elimination of the so-called work entitlement for foreign students at private institutions, in a bid to eliminate abuses by universities that primarily enrolled students whose main goal was to work illegally, has had an impact on legitimate institutions as well. More...

By Ian Wilhelm. Among the states, California has the largest number of international students, while Massachusetts has the largest percentage of such students as part of its total enrollment. In all, 764,495 international students studied in the United States in 2011-12, making up 3.7 percent of the total student population. They and their dependents are estimated to have contributed more than $21.8-billion to the U.S. economy in that year in the form of tuition and living expenses. View Where the International Students Are, State by State in a larger map.

By Beth McMurtrie. The number of Americans who study abroad grew an anemic 1.3 percent in 2010-11, according to the latest "Open Doors" report by the Institute of International Education.
While the numbers, which are on a two-year lag, were no doubt influenced by the country's economic woes, the poor showing highlights the challenges colleges face in making study abroad an integral part of the college experience.
"Those numbers are not growing fast enough," says Peggy Blumenthal, senior counsel at the institute. "We're going to have to find other ways to internationalize the thinking of Americans if we're not going to get them all abroad."
According to the report, 273,996 students went abroad in the 2010 academic year. Europe remains the preferred region of study, drawing 55 percent of all students. But China has steadily inched up over the years and is now the fifth most popular destination, reflecting a growing interest in Asia's leading economy. According to a separate survey by the institute, if those students traveling to China for service-learning projects, research, and other non-credit-bearing work were added in, the total number of students who traveled to China in 2011 climbed to 26,000.
Mexico and Japan saw their figures plummet—by 42 and 33 percent, respectively. No doubt the declining interest was due to the continuing drug-related violence in Mexico and the tsunami in the spring of 2011 in Japan. More...

By Jeff Selingo. In many industries, competition lowers prices, promotes innovation, and often leads to product differentiation. But even with 4,500 colleges and universities, American higher education seems to defy those rules. Prices rise faster than inflation, colleges are seen as resistant to change, and there is a sameness to many institutions, despite all the rhetoric about the diversity of our higher-education system.
Few colleges want to be seen as “stepping away from the herd in meaningful ways” because they are so obsessed with moving to the next level, maintains the late J. Douglas Toma in a recent book, The Organization of Higher Education. More...

By Jeff Selingo. The Association of American Universities operates its club in such secret that most presidents who yearn to get into it have no idea when another exclusive invite might be extended. So a dozen or so university presidents who aspire to be members were probably disappointed on Monday when the AAU announced it was welcoming another expensive private institution to its ranks, Boston University.
Membership in the AAU has become the benchmark for research universities to show the world that they have made the big time. As a result, university leaders who want to be part of the group seem willing to do almost anything to prove they are worthy, including spending their own tuition dollars to gain an advantage in the federal research rankings that matter so much to the AAU. More...

Following is a guest post by Mark Salisbury,  director of institutional research and assessment at Augustana College, in Illinois. For the folks who have been fervently trying over the past decade to persuade more—if not most—undergraduates to study abroad, the almost flat change in participation from 2009-10 to 2010-11, as found in the latest “Open Doors” report, probably didn’t inspire much of a celebration. After several years of more-substantial growth, “Open Doors” reported a measly increase of about 3,000 students, just over 1 percent. Commenting on the lack of growth, Peggy Blumenthal, senior counsel at the Institute of International Education, which produced the report, said: “We’re going to have to find other ways to internationalize the thinking of Americans if we’re not going to get them all abroad.”
When I read Blumenthal’s reaction in The Chronicle, I wanted to crack open a bottle of bubbly. Because in one sentence, she captured the fundamental shift in thinking that can make study abroad realize its educational potential. If international educators can mobilize behind her charge, this seemingly grim report may mark the moment that study abroad got its groove back. View more...

L'Association pour faciliter l'insertion professionnelle des jeunes diplômés (Afij) vient de publier son enquête "Un an après", qui interroge le parcours de jeunes diplômés en 2011 jusqu'à septembre 2012. Celle-ci montre un recul de l'accès à un emploi durable.
Cette enquête annuelle ne reflète pas la situation de l'ensemble des jeunes, prévient l'AFIJ. Néanmoins, elle donne une indication de la conjoncture de l'emploi. En l'occurrence, elle fait ressortir, par rapport à l'an dernier, une dégradation de l'entrée sur le marché du travail pour les jeunes diplômés. En septembre 2012, ceux de l'année passée sont ainsi 50% à occuper un emploi, contre 58% dans l'enquête précédente.

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