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.
While a slew of proposed state bills antagonize China and international student enrollment continues to cool, higher education in the U.S. is flirting with losing a student body worth $15 billion to the U.S. economy.
Legislative negotiators have reached a deal to make college free for residents whose families make less than $80,000 a year in order to bolster the state's fledgling enrollment and labor workforce shortage.
State leaders across higher education, nonprofits and local government are partnering up to subsidize housing and expand access to food as rent prices continue to take off.
Thirty percents all students enrolled in higher education in 2021 were enrolled online. As online study rises in the mainstream, schools can start with these tools to earn their favor.
Applicants at Penn will no longer be exclusively considered based on their legacy status. With Harvard tied up in the Supreme Court over a similar case, Penn's decision might be the first sign of a massive shift.
Damages from two $100 billion hurricanes have finally sealed the fate of this 60-year-old private university, which was unsuccessful in its efforts to bring a merger to fruition.
Seven out of 10 of the highest average earners may be in engineering unrelated to computer technology, but the one and two spots are reserved for computer engineering and computer science.
The USDA is taking out risky loans worth tens of millions of dollars to colleges and universities to prevent rural communities from becoming higher education "deserts," according to The Hechinger Report.
Since the beginning of April, at least 27 higher education institutions have received calls about an active shooter, a hostage situation or a bomb threat, only to discover they were fake or unfounded once police arrived on the scene. Some officials believe we need to change our conception of swatting incidents entirely.
According to a new report from Gallup and the Lumina Foundation, Black, Hispanic and male students are most likely to consider stopping out, and it may be due to one specific, campus-wide issue.
U.S. News & World Report has unveiled its latest rankings of the country's best states for higher education, analyzing the share of each state's college degree holders, graduation rates and more.
Thanks to Madeline Pumariega's vision to "elevate educational offerings to raise Miami's talent base," Miami Dade College is now built out with two AI centers and a slew of cutting-edge certifications and stackable credentials to provide its students a competitive leg up.
With one state's Senate passing an end to tenure and one university coming under fire for blaming COVID on laying off at least 30 professors, here is the latest picture of the tenure chopping block.
Only 51% of students who began a four-year degree in 2012 completed a degree within eight years at that institution, according to NCES. Bellwether believes a nonlinear higher education system can regain students' trust and recapture their valuation of a postsecondary degree.
