International
Decode Data Science Speak With This Glossary for Higher Ed | Colleges and universities are awash in data and under increased pressure to quantify and improve student outcomes. As a result, higher-education practitioners and policymakers have, in turn, welcomed the application of data science in higher education.
International Educators: College Ranking Systems Ineffective | CAPE TOWN, South Africa ― Competitive ranking systems used in the United States and Europe to label colleges and universities by their selectivity may be prohibiting potential partnerships from forming between institutions across the world.
Call for flexible minimum standards | Can we retain the minimum standards and the traditional processes of higher education of the past centuries, when strict merit-based criteria were used to make it available to a select few as we change it to a system which is open to all? Isn’t there an in-built conflict there, both with regard to standards and processes?
Industry presses ministry to address HE jobs outcomes | Russia’s leading companies, banks and state corporations, have prepared a petition calling on the national Ministry of Education and Science to design measures to improve the quality of higher education offered by national universities and change the curricula taught by them.
U.S. National
As college prices soar, poorest students fall further behind | Hundreds of food pantries cropping up on college campuses offer one stark symbol of the gulf between the experiences of rich and poor as they reach for the American dream.
Good Outcomes for Transfers | Study finds that students who start at community college earn bachelor’s degrees at much lower rates — but those who transfer fare as well as (or better than) “native” four-year-college students.
Free the Public Universities | Taken together, privatizing public institutions and publicizing private institutions suggest nothing less than a convergence of these once very different institutions.
Racial disparities in education debt burden among low- and moderate-income households | Evidence now demonstrates significant variation in education-debt levels by race and household income, with Black and lower-income students accumulating higher levels of education debt compared to their White and upper-income peers.
Higher Ed Associations Pushing for More Accurate Graduation Rate Accounting | “The degrees earned by students who transferred or attended college part-time aren’t any less valuable or meaningful than those who attended full-time and remained at one school,” said said Christine Keller, executive director of the Student Achievement Measure, which is coordinating the #CountAllStudents campaign.
U.S. States
Report: Pa. second-worst in nation for college affordability | When it comes to college affordability, Pennsylvania is the second worst state in the country, according to a report released this week.
State can improve educational outcomes by adopting performance-based funding initiatives | New York has a new state budget that increases spending to almost $25 billion for the state’s districts and schools, a historic amount that comes with few, if any, expectations that the dollars produce demonstrable academic results.
State tackles college affordability | A recent national report from the Institute for Research on Higher Education shows that many states, including Ohio, have a college-affordability problem that is causing an increasing number of families to second-guess the value of a college degree.
Washington vs. Massachusetts: How college affordability compares | College in Washington is more affordable than it is in Massachusetts because most of our students go to two-year colleges and because the state offers generous financial aid packages, a new report says.
U.S. Says Bathroom Law Violates Title IX | Justice Department tells U of North Carolina that it is violating federal law by enforcing state statute limiting bathrooms transgender people may use.
Institutional
INVESTIGATION: Daily News discovers Ball State Fact Book data errors and misrepresentations | A Daily News investigation into departmental headcount discovered problems in how some departments were represented in the Ball State College Fact Books — the place where the university publishes official data about itself.
300 layoffs at Chicago State University | Threats of mass layoffs that had hung over the state’s only university serving a predominantly minority, low-income student population became reality Friday, as Chicago State let go 300 employees.
Mayor Walsh Launches Free Community College Program in Boston | Boston’s Mayor Marty Walsh has launched a new program that will provide two years of community college to low-income high school students who graduate with at least a 2.2 grade point average.
Sweet Briar’s Incomplete Recovery | The nearly shuttered college did not hit its May 1 goal for admissions, but leaders hope to snag more students during the summer melt period in the rebuilding effort.