Inside Higher Ed Enrollment Slide Continues, at Slower Rate College enrollments in the U.S. decline for a sixth straight year — although at a slower rate — while the bachelor’s degree got more popular. By Paul Fain December 20, 2017 Overall college enrollments in the U.S. have declined for a sixth straight year, […]
Inside Higher Ed Women Are Majority of New Medical Students By Scott Jaschik December 19, 2017 For the first time ever, women make up a majority (50.7 percent) of those enrolling in medical school, according to new data from the Association of American Medical Colleges. This fall, the number of new female medical students […]
LAO Report in PDF California Community Colleges: Interim Evaluation of Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program Introduction Background Evaluation Issues for Legislative Consideration Conclusion Executive Summary Background Legislature Authorizes Community Colleges to Offer Bachelor’s Degrees on a Pilot Basis. Chapter 747 of 2014 (SB 850, Block) authorizes the California Community Colleges (CCC) to […]
The Hechinger Report Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them Tech companies are sidestepping the middleman and creating their own courses by JON MARCUS December 18, 2017 Microsoft employees in Redmond, Washington. With a huge shortage of college graduates in data and computer science, tech companies are […]
Inside Higher Ed GOP Seeks to Shift Accountability for Colleges While for-profits get the relief they’ve long clamored for, the GOP’s proposed overhaul of the Higher Education Act would add performance-funding standards for most colleges. By Andrew Kreighbaum December 4, 2017 Education groups scrambled Friday to dissect a massive bill from Republicans in […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education House Republicans Press for Higher-Ed Overhaul in 2018 By Adam Harris and Eric Kelderman DECEMBER 12, 2017 WASHINGTON Updated (12/13/2017, 10:34 a.m.) with results of the Tuesday session of the House committee and comment from Paul Mitchell, a Republican congressman. Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives began […]
Inside Higher Ed Growing Number of Borrowers Are in Default By Paul Fain December 14, 2017 The U.S. Department of Education this week released new federal loan data showing that 4.6 million student loan borrowers were in default as of Sept. 30, an increase from the 2.2 million who were in default four years earlier. Roughly […]
Inside Higher Ed ‘Too Much, Too Fast’? GOP’s Higher Education Act rewrite would give a boost to competency-based education, short-term certificates and alternative providers, but experts worry about the bill’s lack of safeguards. By Paul Fain December 14, 2017 The Republican-led Congress’s early attempt at rewriting the federal Higher Education Act uses incentives […]
Inside Higher Ed Baby Steps on ‘Unit Records’ in House As House panel readies to debate Higher Education Act, GOP lawmakers add provision seeking federal study of student-level data system run by National Student Clearinghouse. By Andrew Kreighbaum December 12, 2017 The massive Higher Education Act bill that the House of […]
Washington Examiner Pushed by Trump, states look to promote apprenticeships by Anna Giaritelli | Dec 11, 2017, 12:01 AM Several states are rising to President Trump’s challenge to promote apprenticeship programs as a way to fill a “skills gap” in companies and reduce the unemployment rate. Trump has been pushing blue-collar and non-collegiate […]