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A state's plan to calculate the "economic value" of a degree

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Amid faltering enrollment rates and increased national scrutiny of the price and worth of a college education, Colorado is weighing a new formula to measure the “economic value” of degree programs offered by the state’s public institutions of higher education.

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Is for-profit higher education dying or just a shell of itself?

Inside Higher Ed

A recent episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed ’s news and analysis podcast, used the possible Arkansas-Phoenix marriage as a moment to take stock of the state of for-profit higher education. I love community colleges. Where is higher education’s responsibility there? That didn’t really happen. Can we deliver?