Nearly a third of employers hiring entry-level positions admitted avoiding selecting Gen Zers, according to a survey from ResumeBuilder.com. The culprit? Entitlement.
"I don't believe in this concept of stop-and-go: You stop high school and go into college. I believe we have to hold their hands and make sure they make it," says Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Jose Dotres.
The new strategy may have arrived in the nick of time: Over the past decade, Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) enrollment has dropped 30% and community college enrollment has decreased by 37%, according to officials.
It was a quiet week among presidents' comings and goings. A first-time female leader is beginning her career and one long-time leader is in his twilight. Plus, one president has been placed on administrative leave in the wake of an administrator's suicide.
Thanking UA President Robert Robbins for his leadership and cooperation, Arnold and Regent Fred DuVal said plans to centralize the university's budget, as well as action taken to reduce spending late in the fall, were potentially successful steps to reverse course on 2023's overspending—and said that widespread decentralized spending was the root cause of the […]
The Barnard administration, in late October and November, rewrote its policies on political activity, website governance and campus events, giving itself wide latitude to decide what was and was not permissible political speech on campus, as well as final say over everything posted on Barnard's website. The moves caught the attention of the New York […]
Despite the well of opportunity present to higher education to offer employee development opportunities, company-higher education partnerships are losing ground to private providers.
What does a 21st century liberal arts institution look like? Listen to President Lori White guide us through her creation of DePauw University's five-year strategic plan that aims to prepare students to be successful "in the jobs of today and that we can't even imagine for tomorrow."
After studying first-year Ivy-Plus students' admissions records and grades between 2017 and 2022, Harvard-based Opportunity Insights found that student's test scores are a far more significant predictor of collegiate success than their high school GPA.
