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The human toll of rampant college closures

University Business

More than 50 public and private nonprofit colleges have closed, merged or announced closures since March 2020, and over half of the students whose schools shut down did not re-enroll elsewhere, Best Colleges reports. The post The human toll of rampant college closures appeared first on University Business.

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Humanities majors should pay lower tuition (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

That the humanities are in crisis will surprise exactly no one. Since the Great Recession of 2008, but especially after 2012, the share of majors in the humanities has continued to decrease precipitously among American college-goers. Source: CUPA-HR 2021-22 Survey of Faculty in Higher Education. Allow me to explain.

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Dr. Joy Gaston Gayles Appointed Head of NC State College of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Joy Gaston Gayles will become head of the NC State College of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development (ELPHD), effective Jul. She was the 2022 President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Hikes Woman of Color in the Academy Award.

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My 2024 Higher Education Finance Reading List (Robert Kelchen)

Higher Education Inquirer

[Editor's note: This article first appeared at the Kelchen on Education blog.] This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. The higher education finance landscape and data sources Chetty, R., Friedman, J.

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. It Isn’t Loving Me Back.”

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Three Stats That Signal the Transformation of Higher Education

Helix Education

Snapshot Data are used by almost everyone in higher education to help understand trends and dynamics. Where they are found is just one of the three statistics that I believe are key indicators of the transformational change that is afoot in American higher education. Fall 2020 saw 5.9m outweigh the disadvantages.

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Students choose arts degrees in droves despite huge rise in fees under Morrison government

The Guardian - Higher Education

But measures introduced by the former Morrison government that doubled the price of some degrees to incentivise students into other courses didn’t dissuade him, nor did recent cost-of-living increases.

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