Alcino Donadel is a UB staff writer and first-generation journalism graduate from the University of Florida. He has triple citizenship from the U.S., Ecuador and Brazil.
Universities are receiving fewer FAFSA submitters and looking at smaller enrollment numbers than last year due to this year's federal aid delays. Small- to mid-sized private colleges recuperating from the pandemic have another steep hill to climb.
The Department of Education wants to extend sex-discrimination-based protections to gay and transgender students. However, one U.S. district chief judge believes the effort "derail[s] deeply rooted law."
Unpaid internships are not feasible for students working their way through college, says a new report from Strada Education Foundation. Government entities, education providers and philanthropic resources can be used to keep costs at a minimum.
Community colleges must recommit to reforming remedial education to ensure K12 students affected by the pandemic won't crash out of the postsecondary track, declares a new report from FutureEd.
The University of Texas at Austin and Emerson College have recently announced staff layoffs due to declining enrollment numbers and internal crises linked to the recent wave of protests. Some staff believe institutions are using the demonstrations as a scapegoat to downsize.
Over half of recent graduates and current students who searched for jobs within the past six months said employers always, often or sometimes inquired about their protest history.
The popular yet controversial college ranking website evaluated engineering schools based on their reputation among graduate school deans, faculty citations, student selectivity and research activity.
The University of North Florida partially credits its enrollment growth to its focus on continuing education programs. But are institutions' outdated financial systems ready for an Amazon-like shopping experience?
University of Miami President Julio Frenk is switching coasts in January to take on the top job at UCLA, becoming its first Latino president. University of Washington's longtime president is sticking to her planned resignation date.
U.S. higher education possesses only four universities in the top 100, three less than last year, in Times Higher Education's (THE) Impact Rankings 2024.
Institutions worried about falling behind in adopting AI but unsure how to move forward due to a lack of resources can subscribe to the following suggestions to armor themselves without breaking the bank.
Leveraging insights from Terra Dotta and Flywire, here's how colleges and universities can better support international students and distinguish their campuses from domestic competition.
"We must defend the principles that caused us to enter leadership in the first place," the AAC&U president says. "It's not easy, and it might be that you need to resign, but we must defend this."
Colleges seeking to recruit adults taking another shot at earning a credential may have the best luck with one specific demographic, which earns credentials at nearly twice the rate of their peers.
Leaders at DeSales University netted a cool $2.5 million, optimized their IT infrastructure and improved their cybersecurity in one fell swoop. Here's how small private universities can do the same.
