The "great unbundling" of community colleges' academic offerings is rapidly feeding career-ready adult learners into high-demand fields. The prize for institutions: Higher enrollment and student buy-in.
In the week ahead, some colleges can begin building reduced-credit programs and maybe even expect more high school students to enroll right after graduation.
One-third of U.S. workers lack basic digital skills, but a rise in short-term credential enrollment in generative AI and automation could help the nation course-correct, Coursera's annual global skills report declares.
North Carolina students and academic advisors now can use one online portal to access the college credit transfer guidelines of nearly 100 institutions. Other states are also improving their pathways to drive degree attainment.
As scary as these prices may seem, many of these universities don't charge the full amount. In other news, the American Association of University Professors now supports boycotts.
Tight budgets, half-formed institutional strategies and a turbulent online program manager market are impeding chief online learning officers from advancing innovative programs—despite more than half stating their enrollment is growing faster than on-campus programs.
The current Minnesota governor is no stranger to America's education system, having worked hands-on in classrooms and passed progressive policy measures in K12 and higher ed.
