Inside Higher Ed A Kayak for Credentials Ambitious project to create public database of wage data and other information about all postsecondary credentials seeks to help students and employers know more about what’s expected in academic and job-training programs. By Paul Fain October 18, 2017 One of the loudest complaints about […]
Inside Higher Ed Curriculum for Work-Force Development By Paul Fain October 17, 2017 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation on Monday released a new curriculumit hopes employers, government and higher education can use to better collaborate on closing the skills gap. Dubbed the Talent Pipeline Management Academy, the curriculum grew out of […]
Inside Higher Ed More Scrutiny for Community Colleges The new status quo may be more calls by state lawmakers for better completion rates and work-force outcomes. By Ashley A. Smith October 17, 2017 Community college systems are finding they’re under more scrutiny than ever before, especially when it comes to whether […]
Inside Higher Ed Default Crisis for Black Student Borrowers Half of all black students who took out federal student loans defaulted in 12 years, according to two analyses of new federal data on student borrowers. By Paul Fain October 17, 2017 Two analyses of newly released federal data on student loans reveal […]
Inside Higher Ed California May Fund First Year of Community College By Nick Roll October 16, 2017 A measure that would cover the first year of community college for California students was signed into law Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported. Whether the colleges are funded for that first year, however, is dependent on […]
Inside Higher Ed Return of the College Scorecard The Department of Education rolls out updated information on its college transparency tool, including a new comparison feature. By Andrew Kreighbaum September 29, 2017 An Obama administration initiative that provided consumer information on colleges and universities has survived for another year and into […]
Inside Higher Ed College Enrollment Projected to Grow 15% by 2025 By Doug Lederman September 29, 2017 A new federal report projects that enrollment in American postsecondary institutions will climb 15 percent from 2014 to 2025, with larger proportional increases among adult than traditional-age students, women than men, graduate students than undergraduates, […]
AEI Preston Cooper September 22, 2017 | Forbes GAO report should trigger rethink of accountability in higher education To borrow $43 million and pay it back almost immediately may appear a rather pointless exercise. But for Corinthian Colleges, a now-defunct chain of for-profit colleges, it was a clever way to bamboozle regulators […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education The Mismatch Between High Tech and Higher Ed By Peter Monaghan SEPTEMBER 24, 2017 Silicon Valley and the surrounding San Francisco Bay area have flourished in cycles over the past several decades, thanks to companies involved in defense, computing, the internet, and now social media. But […]
Inside Higher Ed The Fruits of Collaboration An alliance of 11 public research universities shows that sharing data, ideas and practices can help more low-income students graduate. By Ashley A. Smith Three years ago a group of public research universities set out to prove that by working together they could significantly increase the completion […]