Operational Efficiency

How Vermont is winning the fight against falling enrollment

Dedicated to embracing an evolving higher education landscape that's cost-effective, career-minded and digitally native, Vermont has begun to revitalize its once-flailling student body. Two big initiatives pushing this change are recent school mergers and a powerful free community college pipeline.

For-profit colleges, be warned: DOE is set to hold leaders personally liable for reckless spending

To curb the deepening student loan crisis, the Department of Education aims to impede the abuse of federal funding at for-profit colleges by forcing school leaders to assume personal liability for unpaid institutional debt.

New initiative seeks to boost value of community college degrees

The Aspen Institute and CCRC have invited ten community colleges to participate in a program that can reprogram their values to boost the likelihood of students landing high-paying jobs or being admitted into universities.

Guest speakers on campus: Here’s what students want

Approximately one in five students reported never seeing a guest speaker on campus, which says more about the school's marketing than anything else, observes mental health speaker Jessi Beyer.

Hurricane Ian forces closures of colleges and events across Florida and Deep South

Institutions in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia brace for wind, rain from the storm this weekend.

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