Workforce development has become the driving force behind some of the nation's most significant education reforms. One major higher ed initiative beginning July 1 is accelerating the trend.
New College of Florida, which is controlled by the governor's hand-picked board of trustees, will acquire the Sarasota-Manatee campus of the University of South Florida next month.
More states and the federal government are aligning on making sure that programs eligible for government dollars do no harm to the students who enroll.
Amid intense pressure from the Trump administration and deepening public skepticism of higher education, a number of colleges have embarked on an unusually public bout of self-scrutiny in an effort to regain public trust.
Today's political forces threatening academic freedom and institutional autonomy stem from declining trust in higher education, a new analysis contends.
They all begin college with hope, and leave without the credential they believed would shape the rest of their lives due to financial instability, family, illness.
