Discouraged in high school, inspired in college
A Renton Technical College student who came to this country as a refugee has been honored as one of the top 20 students in the U.S. for academic achievement at a community or technical college. Support...
View ArticleFAFSA Completions Reach 82 Percent of Last Year’s Total
Largely thanks to Early FAFSA, high schoolers completed 603,529 more FAFSAs through Feb. 17 of this FAFSA cycle than they did by that point in the 2016-17 cycle. Across the board, states are really...
View ArticleVideo: Dr. Kathleen Cleary of Sinclair Community College
Dr. Kathleen Cleary reflects on how Sinclair Community College is making a difference in the lives of its students by rethinking its advising and academic support programs. After watching the video,...
View ArticleOnline Education Potentially Less “Disruptive” Than Previously Expected
Online education has not yet proven to be the “disruptive” force many predicted because most colleges have used it to adapt rather than change their business models. Instead, online education serves as...
View ArticleRecent College Cost Study Shows the Value of Community Colleges
A recent study by Student Loan Hero examined the cost of a college credit, and highlighted the value of spending the first half of postsecondary education at a community college. The post Recent...
View ArticleHechinger Report Article Calls for More Focus on How College’s Can Improve...
In an article for The Hechinger Report, Andre Perry discusses his own college experience and argues that colleges should stop condemning high schools for problems with their own graduation rates. There...
View ArticleData Analytics Increasingly Driving How Institutions Operate
From personalizing tuition to performance management, the use of data is increasingly driving how institutions operate. Institutions like Georgia State University, Arizona State University, and other...
View ArticleWhy Students Living on Campus Take Online Courses
On EdSurge’s On Air podcast, Dale Whittaker, the provost and executive vice president at the University of Central Florida (UCF), discusses why students living on campus take online classes. Whittaker...
View ArticleSeattle Times: Educators in Chehalis, Wash. try to build college fever
In Washington state, only about a third of students ever earn a bachelor’s degree. In rural counties, it’s even lower. The Chehalis School District is revamping its culture and partnering with the...
View ArticleInside Higher Ed: Access to Data Tool Restored for Borrowers
Student loan borrowers looking to enroll in income-driven repayment programs — or to recertify their income levels — can once again automatically transfer their tax return data into applications. The...
View ArticleNew York Times: The Telltale Data That Can Identify College Students at Risk
WASHINGTON — Administrators at the University of Kansas knew they had a problem: Many of their most vulnerable students — largely low income and often the first in their families to go to college —...
View ArticleNew York Times: Higher Education Seeks Answers to Leaner Years
Several higher education associations have set up a group of 31 colleges, universities and systems called the Frontier Set to exchange ideas that have worked to lower costs and improve success rates —...
View ArticleBehind a Stagnant Portrait of College Leaders, an Opening for Change
The typical college president is a 62-year-old white man with a Ph.D. who thinks his faculty just don’t get it and that his college never has enough money. It’s little wonder that he’s ready to get out...
View ArticleHigher Education with John B. King, Jr, Michele Siqueiros and Douglas Haynes
The esteemed panel discusses higher education as a path to economic opportunity and social mobility. Watch the panel on PBS. The post Higher Education with John B. King, Jr, Michele Siqueiros and...
View ArticleA New Kind of Tech Job Emphasizes Skills, Not a College Degree
A few years ago, Sean Bridges lived with his mother, Linda, in Wiley Ford, W.Va. Their only income was her monthly Social Security disability check. He applied for work at Walmart and Burger King, but...
View ArticleWhy Summer Jobs Don’t Pay
Why can’t kids today just work their way through college the way earlier generations did? The answer to that question isn’t psychology. It’s math. A summer job just doesn’t have the purchasing power it...
View ArticleNot who you think: The truth about today’s college students
An observation about school made by a Georgia lawyer 60 years ago still makes sense in very different times. “Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college — or because they...
View ArticleStudent Debt May Be Reducing Home Ownership
A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that rising student debt levels are a substantial contributor to the decline in home ownership among young Americans. The post Student Debt...
View ArticleThe Culling of Higher Ed Begins
It has become trendy to predict that higher education is on the verge of a major collapse, what with enrollments falling as loan debt and rising tuition cause students and families to ask harder...
View ArticleData Dive
Georgia State’s extensive predictive analytics efforts are leading to better grades and student retention — and more minorities graduating from STEM programs. The post Data Dive appeared first on Bill...
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