Enrollment at the three state universities has been holding steady recently, but there are some challenges ahead. Regents associate academic officer Jason Pontius says enrollment remains down from the record peak in the fall of 2016. "Forty percent of that drop over that time are from Chinese national students who are choosing not to attend […]
In California, about 87,000 undocumented students are pursuing higher ed. Increasingly, they do not qualify for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which provides protection from deportation and a work permit.
An enrollment cliff or enrollment shift? See how this private liberal arts university bucked a defunct recruitment strategy to make way for 'modern learners.'
Black college students in several states reported to authorities Wednesday they had received anonymous text messages using racist references to the era of U.S. slavery. The messages varied in detail, but followed the same basic script, saying the recipient had "been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation."
About 40 percent of students entering the state's colleges, universities and community colleges don't meet the Texas Success Initiative standards for college readiness, according to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
For only the second time in history, state funding to public colleges in 2023 exceeded per-student funding levels unseen since before the Great Recession, new research suggests.
Education is about learning—facts, skills, concepts, research, culture, analysis and inspiration. It is supposed to enrich our lives and make us better citizens and independent thinkers. But over the last decade and a half, the goal of learning has given way to proxies for learning: grades and degrees. The unfortunate result has been inflation of both.
Tennessee high schoolers' historic interest in community and technical colleges comes during a nationwide decline in undergraduate enrollment among first-year students this fall.
