Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Prior dual-enrollment experience made students more likely to finish their credential within six years of starting college, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Fewer college students are stopping out before finishing their degrees, according to data the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center released this morning.
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Ed Bickle, Ian Johnson and Steven White argue that learning development holds the key to the conversations the sector is having about academic support
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Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 5, 2024
A new model for predicting financial failures from the Philadelphia Fed aimed to produce the most accurate forecasting to date of at-risk colleges.
Higher Ed Data Stories
DECEMBER 3, 2024
This is a popular post each year with high school and independent counselors working with students who are already thinking about a doctorate. It shows the undergraduate institutions of doctoral recipients from 1958 to 2023. (It does not show where the doctorate was earned, to be clear.) It's based on data I downloaded from the National Science Foundation using their custom tool.
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The article addresses the Social Change Model of Leadership Development. It elucidates the SMC background, key assumptions, and the main pillars of the model to form a a change agent who could be helpful with institutional in-service delivery.
The Academic Designer
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Strategies to enhance your online presence before, during, and after a presentation, focusing on social media engagement and networking opportunities for professors and academics.
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Adam Matthews interrogates whether a "meritocratic" view of society, that favours elite higher education as the most legitimate form of aspiration, has fuelled social division in the UK
University Leadership Central brings together the best content for university leaders and administrators from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 2, 2024
Dr. Berenecea Johnson Eanes is focused on meaningful conversations that lead her institution forward. For the past 18 years of her distinguished career in higher education, Eanes has worked at public institutions. After more than four years as president of York College, City University of New York, in January 2024 she became the ninth president of California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA), the first woman to serve in the position.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Howard University would be the only historically Black institution to earn the Carnegie Foundation’s coveted classification, but certainly not the last. Next year, Howard University is expected to gain Research-1 status, the coveted Carnegie Foundation classification for doctoral universities with very high research activity. HBCU leaders and experts say Howard’s ascendance would be a win for the entire sector as more historically Black institutions strive to make it into the upper echelons of r
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 2, 2024
Emma Roberts sets out three legal reforms that could transform the way universities learn from and prevent death by suicide amongst students
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Those who started at two-year public colleges helped drive the overall increase in students completing a credential.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 4, 2024
A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC) n otes that 61.1% of learners who began college in fall 2018, which is the most recent cohort tracked, earned a credential within six years. This.5 percentage point increase is the first increase in the six-year completion rate in several years. “The improvements here were mostly driven by students who started at community colleges.
HEPI
DECEMBER 2, 2024
Professor Elena Rodriguez-Falcon FREng PFHEA is the Provost and Chief Academic Officer of international education provider Study Group. When I first travelled to the UK from my home in Mexico as a postgraduate international student 27 years ago, my father’s words were ringing in my ears. The UK was the best place in the world for me to study and it was worth the major investment it took for my family to help me take this brave step.
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 1, 2024
Applicants tend not to use data in making university decisions.
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 4, 2024
A declining body of first-year students, uncertain international enrollment and high costs are weighing on many institutions, the ratings agency said.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 1, 2024
College students are paying twice for their education: once in tuition and again with their privacy. That’s the findings from a new Privacy Rights Clearinghouse report, funded by a Michelson 20MM grant. The report uncovers “troubling gaps in data privacy for students using digital learning tools in higher education.” Titled “ Paying Twice to Learn? How Higher Education Students May Be Forced to Sacrifice Privacy for Digital Learning Tools ,” the report points out that weak privacy protections an
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 3, 2024
New data shows enrollment among 18-year-old freshmen dropped this year. Some higher ed experts say last year’s botched FAFSA rollout is at least partly to blame. Enrollment of 18-year-old freshmen dropped 5 percent this fall compared to last, a reversal of gains made in 2023, according to a new data analysis released by the National College Attainment Network Monday.
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 2, 2024
Independent HE has faced issues with registration and degree awarding powers processes for years.
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Colleges with low shares of students of color receive the highest levels of funding, research finds.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 3, 2024
When Dr. Herman J. Felton Jr., and others created the Higher Education Leadership Foundation (H.E.L.F.) nearly a decade ago, they had no idea that they would become the vanguard in leading and supporting a new generation of leadership within historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). “The idea was simply to create a space for individuals who were sincerely interested in committing their vocation and uplift to HBCUs.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 2, 2024
4-Year Colleges Ride the Dual-Enrollment Wave Liam Knox Mon, 12/02/2024 - 03:00 AM More four-year institutions are offering courses for high school students, dipping their toes into what has long been community colleges’ domain. But can they get those students to enroll after graduating?
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Policy attention is closely focused on "alternatives to university" as a way of broadening opportunity.
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 3, 2024
The newly introduced bipartisan Protect Economic Freedom Act follows months of heightened scrutiny over how colleges handle student demonstrations.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 2, 2024
Dr. Michael Gavin, Delta College’s fifth president, grew up on the north side of Chicago, where his classrooms and sports teams were diverse until the eighth grade. In high school, he began to notice change. “By the time I got to high school, I was in honors and AP classes, where my African American and Hispanic friends were, for lack of a better way to put it, tracked into regular or remedial classes,” says Gavin in an interview with Diverse.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 2, 2024
The Campus Visit Is Changing Elizabeth Redden Mon, 12/02/2024 - 03:00 AM W. Kent Barnds considers the implications of students deferring their campus visits until after they receive offers of admission. Byline(s) W.
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Dani Payne argues that reallocating OfS funds as a per-student premium for care experienced and estranged students would serve as a model for wider and fairer funding reform
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Workers who received increased pay in November and December will revert to their original salary in January, the university said.
Faculty Focus
DECEMBER 5, 2024
The landscape of higher education has witnessed a significant shift in recent years, with an increasing number of students opting for nontraditional avenues to pursue their academic goals. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that enrollment in distance learning courses was steadily rising even before the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to do so (Digest of Education Statistics, 2021).
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 4, 2024
The higher education sector is expected to face “a deteriorating credit environment,” according to a 2025 outlook report from Fitch Ratings, a major credit ratings provider.
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 5, 2024
This weeks card from Hugh Jones postbag prompts the question: what exactly does a university chancellor do? This weeks card from Hugh Jones postbag prompts the question: what exactly does a university chancellor do?
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 2, 2024
Known for its Advanced Placement courses and SAT exams, College Board is broadening its offerings to include AP-equivalent career courses.
The PIE News
DECEMBER 3, 2024
The BBC is reporting that it is an “open secret” that international students with limited English proficiency can easily enrol in UK university courses, as well as cases of students exploiting illegal loopholes such as paying others to complete coursework or attend lectures on their behalf. An anonymous master’s student, going by the alias Yasmin, spoke to the BBC, making claims of low levels of English within international student cohorts, as well as commonplace cheating using
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 5, 2024
College students who earn a 2.0 GPA or below are often at risk of dismissal. Leaders are now reimagining how academic probation is communicated to students and ways to make the policy less punitive. Academic probation, while designed to be a notice to students of poor performance, can be a significant barrier to student success. Around 8 percent of graduating college seniors have been on academic probation at least once during their time in college, and this rate increases to 9 percent among fir
Wonkhe
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Alex Bradley and Martyn Quigley argue that using representation ratios can reveal new nuance when considering disparities in degree attainment Alex Bradley and Martyn Quigley argue that using representation ratios can reveal new nuance when considering disparities in degree attainment
Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Final decisions are expected later this month on changes that could come before the winter semester.
The Berkeley Blog
DECEMBER 6, 2024
For more than 60 years, UC Berkeley forestry students have traveled to the Sierra Nevada to cut Christmas trees for the community to enjoy. The post Forest fresh: Cal Forestry Club’s tree sale starts Sunday appeared first on Berkeley News.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 5, 2024
A professor’s accusation that another’s course is antisemitic and dangerous spilled out into public after the interim president weighed in and his private email was shared. Cornell University’s interim president is facing public accusations that he suppressed academic freedom after he criticized a pro-Palestinian professor’s planned course in an email and that email was shared with a reporter.
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