Category: Higher Education

January 18, 2022

Community college enrollment as dropped by nearly 15 percent since the COVID-19 pandemic began–a fact that is particularly concerning considering that community colleges serve a higher number of marginalized student populations. New research from Cengage and Bay View Analytics looks […]

January 14, 2022

Another academic term at California colleges and universities has been upended by the coronavirus. At campuses across the University of California and California State University systems, in-person classes have been suspended and won’t resume until the end of the month […]

January 13, 2022

Blended learning in its ideal application offers faculty and instructors within higher education institutions an opportunity to benefit from multiple modes of instruction while providing students with a quality learning experience. Real learning can be achieved when we acknowledge the […]

January 12, 2022

Today, we unveil the 2022 Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, ranking the university-based scholars in the United States who did the most last year to shape educational practice and policy. Simply being included in this list of 200 scholars is an […]

January 11, 2022

Do you know who your future students are, and is your institution ready for them? Nathan Grawe’s The Agile College has prompted this question and many more. I started reading the book last week and I have been struck by […]

January 11, 2022

Over the past two years, higher educational institutions around the world scrambled to adapt to the realities of a global pandemic. This year, we hopefully will find ourselves on more solid ground, and colleges and universities will get the chance […]

January 10, 2022

Colleges that temporarily shifted instruction online due to the surging Omicron variant of the coronavirus now face the question of when to resume in-person learning. For a growing number of institutions, the answer is not yet. Eight institutions in the […]

January 5, 2022

The year 2021 pushed us all to learn new lessons in unexpected ways, from deciphering public health statistics about vaccines and masks to refreshing our memory for the Greek alphabet thanks to emerging COVID-19 variants. Unsurprisingly, the pandemic featured prominently […]

January 5, 2022

Thanks to rapid vaccine distribution and the CDC’s new mask guidance, in-person instruction returned en masse to universities across the country this fall. But that doesn’t mean university programs with multiple learning modalities will fade away. The pandemic caused universities […]

December 29, 2021

As the fall 2020 semester wraps up, we wanted to know more about the student experience of learning during COVID-19. We asked more than 14,000 college students from across the country about how pandemic-related changes to education affected their academic […]