International
The Slow Death of the University | Stanford and MIT, after all, provided the very models of the entrepreneurial university. What has emerged in Britain, however, is what one might call Americanization without the affluence — the affluence, at least, of the American private educational sector.
China Turns to Online Courses, and Mao, in Pursuit of Soft Power | As China seeks to extend its global clout, it has gone to great lengths in recent years to promote its culture and values abroad, building vast media operations overseas and opening hundreds of language and cultural outposts. Now it is turning to a new tool: online education…
Jordan’s community colleges in crisis as student numbers plummet | The Kingdom’s public and private community colleges are on the verge of “vanishing from the academic scene”, with eight colleges having closed down in the past five years and many others about to follow suit, according to a recent study conducted by the Private Community Colleges Committee.
Dramatic Fall in Applicants Could Mean Crisis for UK Part-Time Higher Education Sector | A report released by the HEPI has demonstrated that the affordability of part-time education within the UK has become near impossible to reach, and urges the government to do more to support the part-time higher education sector.
U.S. National
It’s Time to Rethink What “Elite” Should Mean | All across the country, newly minted college students have settled into their campuses—making friends, absorbing the wisdom of their professors and beginning to think about the future.
New collaborative sheds light on learning outcomes | A new project focused on advancing learning outcomes has demonstrated that rubric-based assessment can be scaled and can offer up valid findings, along with actionable information, about student learning.
College degrees aren’t a commodity | Two recent conversations reminded me of the economic challenges higher education must address.
SAT’s Racial Impact | [A] new, long-term analysis of SAT scores has found that, among applicants to the University of California’s campuses, race and ethnicity have become stronger predictors of SAT scores than family income and parental education levels.
The Rise and Fall of For-Profit Schools | Today, the for-profit-education bubble is deflating. Regulators have been cracking down on the industry’s misdeeds—most notably, lying about job-placement rates.
Here’s how much student-loan debt has exploded over the past decade | New college graduates have it tougher now than their peers did 10 years ago, a new report indicates.
The Cost of Academic Freedom: How Ghosts of Racism’s Past Haunt College Campuses | An education on the realities of structural and institutional racism is not the only way to challenge color-blind thinking; instead, one can to point to the persistent presence of overt racism of college campuses.
U.S. States
College Access Remains Major Hurdle for Hispanics, AAPIs in California | While the number of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) and Hispanics continues to steadily increase throughout California, these groups still do not have equal access to the state’s colleges and universities.
Opinion: New Jersey can make college affordable, retain graduates | The price of attending New Jersey’s public colleges and universities is higher than in nearly any other state.
Why you can get a free college education in Germany but not in California | Germany’s commitment to higher education is so strong that even Americans can get a free college degree in the country.
Institutional
Colleges must act boldly toward affordability | With a new academic year underway, college campuses across America are filled with new students who have bought the promise of opportunity that comes with a higher education degree.
New supports for first-gen students: Helpful or just ‘a drop in the bucket?’ | Some small private colleges that are making an effort to recruit and retain first generation students are reporting some success.
For the U. of Washington’s New President, Fighting Racism on Campus Is a Personal Mission | Ana Mari Cauce has made a long climb to the top. The newly appointed president of the University of Washington was first hired there in 1986 as an assistant professor of psychology.
Positive News for HBCUs | Black graduates of historically black colleges and universities are significantly more likely to have felt supported while in college and to be thriving afterwards than are their black peers who graduated from predominantly white institutions, according to the newest data from an ongoing Gallup-Purdue University study.
Note: Posted publicly on Nov. 2, 2015.