How did you pick a college: the academics, the cost, the campus? For today's high schoolers, a new metric has entered the chat—how the college will look on TikTok. According to Teen Vogue, high school TikTok influencers are increasingly choosing schools based on how they'll present on social media content. "Part of Morgan McGuire's calculation […]
Becker College's 2021 closing contained a lesson for Central Massachusetts schools heading into the next decade. The New England Commission of Higher Education and Massachusetts Department of Higher Education (DHE) first announced that the private college had begun considering closure as an option due to financial difficulties earlier that year. Becker with campuses in Worcester […]
Since its peak in the second half of 2021 and the first half of 2022, total funding for OPMs has declined 97% up through the first half of 2024, according to Validated Insights.
"The file-drawer effect," the Journal Impact Factor and the pressure to produce are pushing some researchers to forego academic rigor and inhibiting the peer review process.
Penn State removed nearly 35 newsstands belonging to The Daily Collegian Sept. 20. This was just the most recent attack on the free press at Penn State and colleges across the United States. University newspapers akin to their counterparts outside the school must be fully financially, editorially and legally independent of the entities for which […]
Fifteen years ago, the Obama administration and philanthropic foundations encouraged more Americans to get a college degree. Remedial classes were a big barrier. Two-thirds of community college students and 40% of four-year college students weren't academically prepared for college-level work and were forced to take prerequisite "developmental" courses that didn't earn them college credits. Many […]
Annual faculty pay can range from $50,000 to $250,000, which may be true for faculty in the same department teaching the same courses. Is this unlawful?
Institutions are putting tens of thousands of dollars down on employees' home purchases to keep them on the payroll and revitalize the community. At one New York university, over 550 employees closed on a home.
Enrollment at Ohio's public university main campuses dipped slightly in 2023. Black student enrollment jumped a bit, but is still down 20% over the last 10 years.
Adelphi University in New York is incorporating its pre-college summer programs into its admissions and recruitment process to woo students who find themselves enjoying a low-key campus life.
