International
Here’s what college costs in 28 countries around the world | A late 2017 study by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) looking at higher education costs throughout the world found that the US has the highest average tuition costs of the 35 OECD member countries.
Social mobility in richest countries ‘has stalled since 1990s’ | Income inequality has increased and social mobility stalled across the world’s richest countries since the 1990s, trapping families on low incomes at the bottom of the earnings ladder, according to an in-depth report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Women’s narrower research networks blamed on ‘hostility’ | Female economists less likely to collaborate widely, study finds.
Universities suffer under free-tuition regimes | A recent University World News article reported on the funding freeze to universities in New Zealand and said it appeared to be a direct consequence of the country’s new free-tuition policy in higher education. This is bad news for New Zealand as the cut has occurred at the very beginning of the free-tuition programme when free tuition has only been awarded to first-year students for one year.
Lower-Class Latin Americans Stuck On Ladder To Success: Report | It takes up to 11 generations for lower-class families in certain Latin American nations to reach average income, says a new study published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Time to Dismiss the Stanford Prison Experiment? | Since its inception nearly 47 years ago, the Stanford Prison Experiment has become a kind of grim psychological touchstone, an object lesson in humans’ hidden ability to act sadistically — or submissively — as social conditions permit.
U.S. National
No Bottom Yet in 2-Year College Enrollments | Community colleges are used to declining enrollments when the economy is strong and unemployment is low. But some researchers are warning colleges that future declines are only expected to get worse amid cuts in state funding and more pressure on institutions to produce measurable outcomes.
Education Leaders: Work Needed to Improve Degree Attainment Outcomes | Identifying and replicating practices and policies that lead to improved rates of attaining college degrees among underrepresented groups in higher education generated frank discussion at a forum Wednesday in Washington, D.C. titled “Why the Nation Needs to Do College Attainment Better.”
U.S. States
Louisiana’s new higher education leader starts job early to help head off potential budget cuts | Louisiana’s new higher education chief Kim Hunter Reed started her job three weeks early to help head off another round of crippling cuts for colleges and universities. Colleges face a $96 million reduction, on top of roughly $1 billion cuts in the past decade.
Institutional
Smoking Gun on Anti-Asian Bias at Harvard? | With the release of numerous internal Harvard documents by the plaintiffs in the case, the university received strong scrutiny in the news media — and may face tougher scrutiny from a federal court considering the lawsuit.
Report: Morgan State Gives Maryland’s Economy a Major Boost | Morgan State University contributes $990 million annually to Maryland’s economy and $574 million within the city of Baltimore, according to a study conducted by Philadelphia-based economics firm, Econsult Solutions, Inc.