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.
A faculty mentor who encourages a student's goals and dreams is the single most crucial factor for personal and professional success. The research shows it—and so does the trajectory of my life.
The Education Department has released a series of papers outlining how they propose to increase program integrity and institutional quality in higher education, building on the Biden Administration's longstanding mission to improve school accountability.
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.
Dual-mission institutions has validated ACE's efforts revamping the Carnegie Classification to recognize dynamic institutions that promote equitable pathways and opportunities for upward economic mobility, say officials.
More than 90% of the UNC System's undergraduate and graduate programs reap a positive ROI for graduates, and nearly 90% of low-income students experienced upward economic mobility, the University of North Carolina System study found.
ACE believes the kind of research and output coming out of today's postsecondary institutions deserves a richer structure that services institutions' missions more justly.
"This raises challenging questions about unequal access to the best university education across America and the implications for social mobility and economic disparities between US regions," said Phil Baty, THE's Chief global affairs officer.
The U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 college rankings came out last week, as my colleague Nick Anderson notes, with a somewhat revamped methodology that does not escape what has been growing criticism of the enterprise. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona captured some of the criticism last year when he said that any college ranking system that […]
The current model of higher education gives credit only if and when a learner reaches the end of the journey. It’s a broken system that hardly works even for traditional learners who enter college right after high school.
