Category: Higher Education

December 9, 2022

As much as we’d like to attribute the total decline in enrollments to the pandemic, it’s clear that COVID-19 is not the only factor. For instance, birth rates have been falling continuously for more than a decade (dropping 4 percent […]

December 9, 2022

Around 4 million working-age Californians have completed some college credits but left before they could earn a degree, according to a 2018 report from California Competes, a higher education and workforce research nonprofit. A new effort aims to bring them […]

November 22, 2022

The recent decline in college enrollment across the country cannot be pinned on a single factor, but rather it represents the accumulated effect of multiple interconnected problems. With ongoing perceptions of mistrust in the efficacy of higher education, rising higher […]

November 17, 2022

Making higher education the norm for everyone in the nation—and ensuring that people have not just access to higher education, but also the support to complete that education—is paramount to the nation’s future success, said Arne Duncan, former U.S. Secretary […]

November 16, 2022

We live in a hyper-personalized, Netflix, Uber, and Door Dash everything world – a universe of Amazon like same-day everything. All businesses—and especially colleges and universities—must leverage hyper-personalization to remain competitive, to grow, and to deliver on their mission within […]

November 9, 2022

Students enter college with a lot of expectations. Expectations about their classes, what they’ll learn, their social lives, the challenges they’ll face, and how they’ll succeed. All these expectations have one thing in common: they are grounded in students’ unique […]

November 3, 2022

Within the Jesuit tradition, there is a concept, “cura personalis,” which means to care for the whole person. When applied to education, this principle seeks to promote the personal development of the whole person, mentally, but also physically, ethically, and, […]

October 31, 2022

A data trove released during the lawsuit against Harvard University’s race-conscious admission practices gave an unprecedented look into how the country’s wealthiest college vetted prospective students. One fact that was unearthed: Harvard applicants whose family members attended the Ivy League […]

October 31, 2022

Every year, millions of college students make big decisions about enrollment, class schedules and major declarations — all with significant implications for their futures. Decisions about majors are not just a matter of academic likes or dislikes. Students’ life experiences, […]

October 25, 2022

The vast majority of college and university employees—82 percent—carry some kind of debt, and just over half are debt-constrained in some way, according to a new report by the TIAA Institute and the College and University Professional Association for Human […]

October 21, 2022

America’s higher education system is facing a crisis: students’ mental health. A survey by TimelyMD found that 88 percent of college students are experiencing declining mental health, with 75 percent report being more stressed than they were in 2021, even […]

October 20, 2022

Political interference in higher education, we are told, is increasing. The partisan divide in views on higher education, we hear, is deepening. Campuses “are driving political division.” “The diploma divide lies “at the heart of this country’s many divisions.” Is […]

October 18, 2022

Alarming new data reveals that only a jaw-dropping 11 percent of postsecondary students report feeling very prepared to enter the workforce. Only one-third of a third of students say they have had great university experiences–a worrisome statistic as the student […]

October 13, 2022

Civics education is all the rage. If there’s any issue that the nation’s political leaders agree upon, it’s this: That the teaching of civics and knowledgeable, responsible citizenship has never been more important or necessary. A recent Newsweek headline sums […]

October 13, 2022

While many higher education faculty are satisfied in their jobs, they’re calling for more support as they struggle to balance new responsibilities brought on by the pandemic and the dramatic shift in teaching and learning, according to a new survey […]

October 7, 2022

Rising college prices and student debt are a huge national concern, for good reason. Here at Cleveland State University, an urban-serving campus where about one-third of undergraduates are first-generation college students, we’re fortunate that our tuition is in the lowest […]

October 5, 2022

America’s universities must think beyond graduation rates and student success while in school, and provide more focus on supporting career success, Ruth Watkins, a national higher education leader, said while at Oregon State University in September. Watkins, president of national […]

October 4, 2022

California governor Gavin Newsom signed multiple pieces of legislation Friday to improve higher education in the state for certain underserved student populations. One of the bills signed into law, Assembly Bill 2881, will support students that are parents and are […]

October 4, 2022

The Republicans’ missive to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona highlights criticisms conservatives frequently apply to colleges. Those include that college administrators suppress speech that doesn’t align with “political correctness” and that they indoctrinate students with liberal values. Faith in higher education […]

October 3, 2022

California governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Friday a bill to further reform remedial education at California community colleges. The new law, Assembly Bill 1705, bolsters a 2017 law, which prevented community colleges from using placement tests to assign students […]