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Like private businesses, universities consolidate to cut costs
Workers at the former Augusta State University in Georgia are spending the summer putting up new signs, redesigning the school’s website, and carting furniture and files among offices. There are new...
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States offer students an incentive to graduate: money
WASHINGTON — Every year states hand out more than $11 billion in financial aid to college students with no certainty as to whether they’ll ever graduate. Many states don’t track the money. They simply...
View ArticleNew figures suggest community college grad rates higher than thought
Community college administrators have long complained that their very, very low graduation rates unfairly fail to take into account students who transfer and continue on to earn degrees somewhere else....
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Tuition starts to fall at private, for-profit colleges
Private, for-profit colleges have joined the march of institutions that appear to be lowering their tuition as enrollment flattens out and families become increasingly price conscious. The average...
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President’s plan: Use financial aid to help curb college costs
President Barack Obama’s long-awaited plan to rein in the escalating cost of college would leverage financial aid to reward colleges and universities that graduate the most students with the least...
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Elite degrees don’t necessarily earn more, study finds
Graduates of elite colleges and universities don’t necessarily make more money than their counterparts at less well-known schools, according to new research. Using the first-year earnings of graduates...
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Higher education is headed for a shakeout, analysts warn
Facing skeptical customers, declining enrollment, an antiquated financial model that is hemorrhaging money, and new kinds of low-cost competition, some U.S. universities and colleges may be going the...
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College costs drive record number of high school kids to start early
Bahiya Nasuuna hasn’t even started college, but she’s already got some academic credits in the bank that will save her time and money and give her a jump on graduating—as she hopes to—within four...
View ArticleNew England college presidents pessimistic about future
Some of the earliest and most iconic institutions in American higher education, small New England colleges are threatened with becoming obsolete because of new kinds of competition and their own...
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MOOCs keep getting bigger. But do they work?
The hottest trends this fall on campus? Denim jeggings. Nerd glasses. Studded backpacks. Instagram. The MOOC. Hailed by politicians and journalists as the affordable future of higher education, the...
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Survey: Colleges aren’t preparing graduates for jobs
Nearly two-thirds of Americans think the higher education system is doing only a fair or poor job of preparing graduates for the workforce, according to a new poll. So firmly does this belief appear to...
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Universities look for new ways to rank themselves
He may be the leader of the free world, but when President Barack Obama proposed that the government grade universities based on their cost and success rates, a lot of other people were ahead of him....
View ArticleWho’s running U.S. higher ed? Increasingly, foundations
When the people with some of the greatest clout over the future of America’s universities and colleges convene in Austin, Texas, they’re not likely to attract very much attention. They’re not athletics...
View ArticleMOOC bandwagon shows signs of slowing down
After barely more than a year in business, opposite-coast rivals edX and Coursera have become two of the biggest higher-education organizations in the world, with a combined six million registered...
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“Success coaches” prodding college students to graduate
When she became the first person in her family to graduate from college, Virginia Hughes invited the three people she credits most with getting her to that momentous milestone: her mother, her...
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New book charts why poor kids forgo top colleges
What you know determines where you go, according to a new book that sets out to determine why the smartest low-income students forgo the most selective colleges. It’s not that poor kids aren’t as smart...
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Report: Student loan woes mirror mortgage problems
Complaints from students about the way financing companies are handling student loans are eerily similar to the problems that frustrated mortgage-holders in the wake of the financial crisis, and cost...
View ArticleStudy: Dual credit benefits kids in richer schools
Taking courses for college credit while in high school may be a good way to get a head start on an expensive higher education—and graduate on time—but new research in Illinois says it’s more available...
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Community colleges join the fundraising game
A carefully curated guest list of 400 will be spending an evening during the winter holidays this year enjoying the lush scenery and good cheer of the private Seven Oaks Country Club in far western...
View ArticleSurvey: Students forgoing advisors who can help them graduate
At a time when research shows that academic advising is a key to helping college students graduate on time, most say they aren’t getting it. Sixty percent of students say someone other than an academic...
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