Since Spring 2020, non-degree offerings at for-profit colleges have exploded by 115%, contributing to the sector's third consecutive year of positive enrollment growth.
Reports by National Student Clearinghouse Research Center and YouthTruth suggest that male enrollment has declined faster than women for the past five years and only 57% of young men graduating high school in 2023 expect to go to college.
The Olivet Board of Trustees approved the change unanimously at a May 19 meeting, according to President Steven M. Corey. Given the schools 179-year history, the name change is intended to reflect the stronger, bolder, and forward-looking array of new programs and enrollment of new students, according to President Corey. President Corey said more changes […]
A new acquisition by the University of Idaho will expand its academic offerings and student outreach amid higher education's sweeping demographic changes.
Days after graduates expressed their dismay with their school's direction under new trustees and administrators, the faculty voted to censure the leadership. About 80% of them supported a 13-item resolution contending the trustees are not meeting their fiduciary responsibilities. The professor pushing the censure said she did not seek a vote of no confidence, because […]
There are 17 associate degree majors with which graduates, four years after they receive their diploma, are earning more than the typical bachelor's degree holder, according to new research from The HEA Group. Founded by Michael Itzkowitz, the former director of the Department of Education's College Scorecard, HEA provides data on college costs and other […]
While NACE's "First Destinations" 2021 showed recuperating rates for graduating bachelor's students, several schools have bucked the national trend, averaging student placement rates well over 10% than average.
The Senate's version of House Bill 8, authored by Sen. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, would award money to colleges based on the number of students who earn "credentials of value," complete at least 15 hours of courses and transfer to a four-year university, enroll in dual credit courses, or take courses that "apply toward academic or workforce […]
Their former employer, Houghton University, wanted them to drop the identifiers in line with a new policy for email formats implemented in September. Both refused and were fired. Ongoing culture wars in the U.S. over sexual preferences, gender IDs and transgender rights have engulfed politics, school campuses and many other facets of public and private […]
In stories detailing inequities, from post-graduation income gaps to programming that places Black students in less upwardly mobile career tracks, the news consistently demonstrates that our higher education system is not equitably serving Black learners. If we as a society believe that higher education is still a key lever in creating more equitable outcomes for all learners, we […]
