Anyone else feel a faint tremor in the Ivory Tower after reading about MissionU last month? The new, one-year, professional school isn’t exactly a threat to the traditional college model. […]
College Affordability: New Data Source
Say hello to a treasure trove of college affordability data. The Urban Institute recently launched the Understanding College Affordability project. Its premise? Affordability means much more than tuition, room and […]
Trump Fuels Liberal Arts for Takeoff
Too bad the Washington Post got to “Democracy Dies in Darkness” first. Any number of colleges and universities nationwide could have used the line to market the heck out of […]
Is the Student-Loan Market the Next Housing Bubble?
College debt has long been considered a crisis for students, many of whom feel like they have widening holes in their pockets. Now, some Wall Street analysts predict that the […]
College Debt: Delaying Millennial Milestones
Many millennials don’t just live with crushing college debt – they’re so weighed down by it that they’re delaying major life milestones. An ORC International survey commissioned by PadillaCRT found […]
#HigherEd: Career Guidance Doesn’t Make the Grade
Prospective students are asking an important question: how well will this college prepare me for, or place me into, a career that meets my goals? In a recent Washington Post […]
Big Paycheck, Little Trust
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports on the state’s highest paid employees. Six of the top 15 are college presidents or administrators. One is an offensive coordinator for a college football team. […]
Supporting Single Parent Students at Wilson College
A perfect read for the holiday season: a story about people getting it right. NPR recently profiled the forward-thinking (and heartwarming) Single Parent Scholars program at Wilson College in Chambersburg, […]
Dollars and Sense: #HigherEd Student Loans in the Presidential Election
Today is Tuesday, November 8, 2016. Today is #ElectionDay. I don’t need to say what’s been said before. Americans are voting today with varied emotions. When it comes to higher […]
Tech Doubts?
Inside Higher Ed released the 2016 Survey of Faculty Attitudes Toward Technology yesterday. Some don’t think tech’s helping much. “Faculty members are still worried that online education can’t deliver outcomes equivalent to […]