International
Why Must International Students Pick Up the Tab for U.S. Higher Education? | Money generated from international students’ tuition in U.S. higher education is redefining its peak every year. During the 2014-15 academic year alone, it contributed a total of $30.5 billion to the U.S economy.
Future perfect: what will universities look like in 2030? | We asked several distinguished academics to tell us how they imagine higher education will look in 2030. The responses, however, could hardly be more disparate.
South African government patches holes in student funding regime | An extra 6.9 billion rand (£306 million) will be pumped into South Africa’s higher education system to tackle a student finance crisis which triggered nationwide protests.
U.S. National
Boost From a Budget Deal | Congress passes a 2016 spending and tax bill that blows away caps on discretionary spending to fund more student aid and health research.
The Negative Narrative That Keeps a College President Up All Night | As a relatively new college president, there are many things that keep me awake at night: supporting the well-being of the 1900-plus students entrusted to me; ensuring we are fulfilling the mission our founding order established 100 years ago; wondering how we will raise the dollars to grow our endowment; and presenting a balanced budget in the face of flat net tuition revenue.
The latest extravagances in the college sports arms race? Laser tag and mini golf. | The people in charge of Clemson University’s athletic department have not settled on a design for the miniature golf course they are building for their football team, but they know it will have just nine holes, not 18.
Campus Protesters Aren’t Reliving the 1960s | Yesterday’s student activists wanted to be treated like adults. Today’s want to be treated like children.
There’s No College P.C. Crisis: In Defense of Student Protesters | Students are agitating for what they believe in, and we should support them.
U.S. States
Black students are drastically underrepresented at top public colleges, data show | As racial unrest sweeps across major college campuses, and African-American students demand more equitable treatment, college administrators need look no farther than their own admissions offices to find one root of the problem.
Cannibalizing or Complementing? | The extension arm of the University of Wisconsin System is given degree-granting authority, but not all institutions in the system agree the change was necessary.
Reeder: Illinois universities take ‘desperate action’ amid budget crisis | The state of Illinois is in crisis, the higher education budget is facing cuts and university administrators are talking about desperate action.
Institutional
Crisis deepens for College of DuPage | The college’s yearlong crisis deepened last week, following the extremely rare sanction from the Higher Learning Commission, which found serious concerns with the school’s integrity and governance.
Less Than 1% | Only 323 of 34,086 learners are eligible to take advantage of Arizona State’s MOOCs-for-credit initiative with edX. The university calls it a “positive first step.”
Dishonor Roll ― The Schools that Sought Exemptions To Legally Discriminate Against LGBT Students | When it comes to diversity and LGBT students, colleges have seen Title IX as optional, picking between the L, G and B, but often leaving out the T, according to a new report released Friday from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
Rutgers looks to boost affordability | Local community college graduates stand to benefit from an initiative that will make it less costly for them to earn a four-year degree from Rutgers University.