International
Crisis in Philippines higher education | Among all the countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Philippines, with a population of nearly 100 million, ranks the highest in terms of number of universities and colleges, or what are collectively referred to as High Education Institutions (HEIs).
New teachers are ‘like galley slaves’ | Newly employed teachers are being treated like “galley slaves” and will earn around €300,000 less over a 40-year career than current senior colleagues, the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) conference has been told.
Expert: Higher Ed Needs to Embrace Assessments of Student Learning | Colleges and universities should embrace assessments of student learning in order to prove their worth as college costs rise and the job market remains tough.
Graduate earnings: data by course and university draw closer | Government data on graduate earnings by course and university could be used as a rationale to lift fee caps, but may not represent the “value added” by different courses and institutions, according to one economist.
How Venture Capital Misses the Boat With Higher Education Technology | Watters responded that what irks her the most about a lot of education technology entrepreneurs is that they act as though no one thought about these issues before Steve Jobs came on stage with an iPad or Sal Kahn started posting videos. In fact, she said, many so-called innovators are replicating things that were experimented with 100 years ago and were found to have significant problems. [From February, 2016]
U.S. National
How Data Can Help Shape Higher Education Policy | Much of the discussion about how to fix the broken higher education business model sounds a little like conversation about how best to squeeze blood out of a turnip.
What’s Behind America’s Widening College Graduation Gap? | The number of students earning bachelor’s degrees is up, but between white and black students, the gains are unequal.
Grade Inflation, Higher and Higher | The most common grade is A — at all kinds of colleges. But while grade point averages are increasing at four-year institutions, that’s not the case at community colleges.
Who Can Change the American University? | Lawrence Ross conjures an assortment of such ghostly deeds on predominantly white campuses across the country in the recently published Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America’s Campuses.
U.S. States
On campus, women outnumber men more than ever | Many more women than men will be opening acceptance letters and e-mails this spring and enrolling in college in the fall, in a trend that holds for both institutions in Massachusetts and nationwide.
These are the college affordability bills Walker just signed into law | Gov. Scott Walker signed most of his college affordability package into law Monday.
California System Enrolls Too Many Out-of-State Students, Audit Finds | The University of California system is enrolling too many out-of-state students, at the expense of California residents, a new state audit has found.
Group Calls Remedial Education ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ | Complete College America, a nonprofit group that is dedicated to improving graduation rates nationally, has dubbed remedial education a “bridge to nowhere” because the majority of students who begin remedial education never make it to credit-bearing courses.
Creative Solutions in Florida | A two-year college in Florida makes dramatic gains in developmental education course pass rates, even amid a state-mandated change to remedial education and the addition of performance funding.
High schoolers, parents are wary of Illinois colleges as budget crisis hits schools | Despite pledges from college officials that their schools will stay afloat, Houlihan and his family decided to change course — and take Illinois public universities off the table. The 17-year-old now is pursuing private schools and scholarships both in and outside the state.
Institutional
What You Teach Is What You Earn | Survey finds 2.2 percent median salary increase for tenure-track faculty members at four-year colleges and universities in 2015-16, but wide variation by discipline.
Chicago State U. Students Left Adrift Amid Budget Impasse | Chicago State University (CSU) students do not know what the future holds in store for them as the university faces continued months of a state budget impasse.
5 More Trustees Resign From Mount St. Mary’s of Maryland | Five more trustees resigned recently from the board of Mount St. Mary’s University, marking the latest leadership changes at the Roman Catholic institution in Maryland that has been mired in controversy this year.