Colleges whose graduates create the most business within the respective community enjoy benefits far beyond bragging rights or prestige, including boosts to the economy and robust alumni networks.
College leaders should be hard-pressed to understand which state institutions are ensuring their transfer students' success, considering one in five students entering public four-year institutions is a community college transfer.
It’s true that yearly increases in college tuition have long outstripped inflation, rising more than 200 percent since 1980. But the conversation around student loan debt has become seriously miscalibrated: Not only do small, expensive, elite universities command the conversation about tuition costs, but there’s a misplaced focus on undergraduate degree programs. There are real problems with […]
Colleges and universities could take a page out of these ten schools' books, considering that 32% of undergraduate students received Pell Grants in the 2021–22 academic year, according to NCES.
Despite the well of opportunity present to higher education to offer employee development opportunities, company-higher education partnerships are losing ground to private providers.
The curse of a sole focus on vocationalism comes as a reaction to corporate leaders and their willing collaborators in state legislatures who think it is either difficult or impractical to interest students in the liberal arts or, heaven forbid, that it might make them into informed voters.
National interest in revitalizing a domestic manufacturing industry related to microchip technology and AI has created an opportunity for higher education to strengthen its value proposition at the two-year, four-year and postgraduate level.
The rise in adult learners and digital learning modalities has added new layers to some of higher ed's most puzzling problems. AI is the joker in the deck that poses new challenges—and wonderfully new solutions.
Reflecting some of the most significant developments in higher education in 2023, our readers at University Business gravitated toward topics reflecting issues most top-of-mind.
