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Graduation rate about flat, new figures show
Four and a half years after producing more degree-holders became a national priority, graduation rates remain stubbornly flat, and only slightly more than half of all students continue to finish...
View ArticleMoody’s: college money woes are getting worse
Facing stagnant enrollment and increasingly price-conscious consumers, already cash-strapped universities will continue to see their revenues fail to keep up with inflation, the bond-rating agency...
View ArticleTaxpayer-Funded Aid Program Benefits Richer Students
Greg Noll balances his engineering major at Columbia University with a work-study job in the university’s fitness center, filling spray bottles, wiping sweat off the machines, and picking up towels for...
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New study quantifies impact of ratings
Being named a top party school by the Princeton Review could cost a university an 8 to 9 percent decline in the percentage of out-of-state students who enroll. That’s among the conclusions of a new...
View ArticleANALYSIS: Real-world trends clash with promises made at White House summit
A White House push to increase the college-going rates of of low-income students flies in the face of real-world trends that are heading in exactly the opposite direction—including institutional and...
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Pop culture: what the Professor really stood for
The ultimate irony about the man who will be instantly and forever known as the Professor is that he wasn’t one. The Professor was all about facts—not rumor, superstition, or hyperbole. And while he...
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Harvard, MIT: Despite low completion rates, MOOCs work
Long-anticipated research into massive open online courses taught by MIT and Harvard finds that, while very few participants complete these classes, many others take advantage of “substantial” amounts...
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Humanities majors don’t fare as badly as portrayed, new earnings report says
People who major in the humanities and social sciences don’t earn as much as their classmates in the physical and natural sciences, math, or engineering, but the gap is not as wide as has been...
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Tests to get into college now being followed by tests to get out
On weekend mornings all this winter, anxious high school juniors and seniors will be filing into school cafeterias to sweat through the SAT, ACT, and similar college entrance examinations as...
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Gallup will survey college graduates’ outcomes
WASHINGTON, DC – In a new attempt to judge the value of a higher education against which any campus can measure itself, the Gallup research organization will poll graduates nationwide about their...
View ArticleRanks of nonacademic staffs at colleges continues to outpace enrollment, faculty
New England Center for Investigative Reporting The number of non-academic administrative and professional employees at U.S. colleges and universities has more than doubled in the last 25 years, vastly...
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Poorer families are bearing the brunt of college price hikes, data show
America’s colleges and universities are quietly shifting the burden of their big tuition increases onto low-income students, while many higher-income families are seeing their college costs rise more...
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College, federal financial aid increasingly benefits the rich
It’s not just colleges and universities that are shifting their financial aid from lower-income to higher-income students. Tuition tax credits and other tax breaks to offset the cost of higher...
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Barriers to credit transfers lower graduation rates, new study finds
Universities’ unwillingness to award academic credit to community-college students for courses they already took is driving down graduation rates for the increasing number of people following that...
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Community colleges increasingly adding bachelor’s degrees
CLEARWATER, Fla. – In a high-ceilinged classroom, bright sun poking through the blinds and reflecting off the whiteboard, eight students lug heavy textbooks to their desks and prepare for this...
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State among the worst in awarding degrees to Hispanics may surprise you
Source: Excellencia in Education With a population more than twice as Hispanic as the national average, California has a lower-than-average proportion of Hispanics with college or university...
View ArticleNew figures show proportion of people with degrees is up
The proportion of Americans with college and university degrees continues to rise slowly, according to new figures, and young adults in particular are picking up the pace of earning academic degrees....
View ArticleBusiness leaders unimpressed with college grads’ skills
Business leaders are increasingly pessimistic about whether college students are being adequately prepared for careers, according to an annual survey. Related stories College students bypassing degrees...
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Veterans’ new battle: Getting credit for what they already know
TAMPA, Fla. — When Benny Lloyd enrolled in nursing school at the University of South Florida, the Navy veteran brought with him the experience of having been a search-and-rescue swimmer, trained to...
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Report: student debt slowing graduates’ accumulation of wealth
Student-loan debt is slowing the accumulation of wealth for younger Americans, who have managed to amass only one-seventh as much money as people with similar incomes and no student loans, according to...
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