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16 décembre 2018

Accreditor on Defining Student Success

HomeBy Paul Fain. The Higher Learning Commission, which is the largest regional accrediting agency, is seeking to change the conversation around defining student success for today's learners. With the release of a position paper, the first of three HLC plans to release on the issue in coming months, the accreditor argued that "current discussions and measures of student success are based on a construct that does not represent students now enrolled in U.S. postsecondary education institutions." The paper was written by a group of experts convened by the accreditor. More...

16 décembre 2018

Master's Degrees More Popular, Increasingly Online

HomeBy Paul Fain. Master's degree programs have grown more popular, enroll more diverse students and are increasingly offered online, according to a new analysis from the Urban Institute. They're also getting more expensive, with net prices having risen faster for master's degrees than bachelor's degrees. More...

16 décembre 2018

Unmet Financial Need Is Rising

HomeBy Paul Fain. Unmet financial need, meaning the gap between the cost of college and all student resources that do not need to be repaid, grew by 23 percent between 2012 and 2016, according to an analysis of federal data that the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) released today. More...

16 décembre 2018

Yale to Offer Coding Boot Camp

HomeBy Paul Fain. Yale University is partnering with the Flatiron School to offer a web-development boot camp, the university announced on Friday. Students who the complete 10-week summer session will receive two credits from Yale. More...

16 décembre 2018

Extended Negative Credit Outlook for Higher Education

HomeBy Paul Fain. Higher education has received a negative financial outlook from Moody's, the credit ratings agency, for a second consecutive year. An expectation of continued low net tuition revenue, Moody's said, is the primary driving force behind a prediction that 4 percent growth in overall operating expenses for the sector will outpace projected revenue growth of 3.7 percent. More...

16 décembre 2018

Broader College Completion Data From the Feds

HomeBy Paul Fain. The federal government on Tuesday released an early look at student completion data that it collected as part of a winter 2016-17 survey of federal aid-eligible colleges. For the second year, the annual release from the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics includes a more comprehensive view of student success than the typical limitation of federal data to first-time, full-time students. More...

16 décembre 2018

A Curriculum to Copy?

HomeBy Paul Fain. The Minerva Project's big contribution to higher education might not be its vision of an elite, global university, but the groundbreaking curriculum it hopes to export to universities around the world. More...

16 décembre 2018

The Degree Rules, for Now

HomeBy Paul Fain. College credentials still loom large in hiring. But a new survey of HR leaders finds growing interest in skills-based hiring, online microcredentials and prehire assessments. More...

16 décembre 2018

Shifting Focus of Publishers Signals Tough Times for Textbook Authors

HomeBy Lindsay McKenzie. Leading academic publishers are signing fewer textbook authors and instead channeling investments into digital courseware. More...

16 décembre 2018

50 Colleges Hit With ADA Lawsuits

HomeBy Lindsay McKenzie. A blind man is taking 50 colleges to court, alleging their websites are inaccessible to people with disabilities. More...

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