Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Did you happen to see Malcolm Gladwell’s article “ Princeton University Is the World’s First Perpetual Motion Machine ”? In 1977, when the university’s endowment stood at $2 billion, its freshman class was 1,585. Not to pick on Princeton—let’s shift attention to Harvard.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Sloan Foundation and RTI International have engaged in a study of Black and Hispanic individuals who have achieved PhD degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Half of the top 20 bachelor’s degrees of Black STEM PhD recipients from 2010–20 were earned at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In April 2023, Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York, passed a significant threshold. The school is now eligible for Title V HSI funds that can support student recruitment, education, sense of belonging, and completion. Manhattan College has been classified as an emerging HSI for years, says Roy. totaled 62.5 Census data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Elmer Guy first came to Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1999 as dean of instruction, he could not have known that, 24 years later, he would oversee the institution’s renaming to Navajo Technical University (NTU). It became the first tribal college and university, or TCU, to offer a Ph.D. Tuttle “We are a tribal college.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Colleges are under growing pressure to prove their value to students, parents, legislators and others. Itzkowitz: Over the past year, we’ve seen an uptick in students and families wanting to know what type of return on investment they’re going to get from the college education. We have data from the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Anyone who cares deeply about American higher education needs to come to grips with a series of hard and unpleasant truths: That this country’s system of postsecondary education relegates the students with the greatest needs to the most underresourced institutions.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

colleges and universities. Andrew Koricich is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges (ARRC) and an Associate Professor of Higher Education at Appalachian State University. in Higher Education and a B.S. from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Koricich earned a Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Inside Higher Ed : How appropriate is it for federal and state governments to judge colleges based on the value they provide? For most Americans who are considering college or who enroll in college, they say they’re doing it to find a job, to enter a career, to make a decent living.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Image: Cameron Mozafari wasn’t surprised when a student walked into his office at Cornell University and started crying. ” The University of North Carolina system recently received a $5 million state grant to extend and update its Mental Health First Aid program , first launched in 2015.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer One year ago, the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program (Aspen) partnered with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) to launch the first cohort of the Transfer Student Success and Equity Intensive , a national effort to accelerate transfer reform at scale.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report notes some improvement in minority representation in higher education related to science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (STEMM)—but not enough to match those groups’ share in the overall population.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

For too long, US higher education has lagged in promoting democracy-focused education as core to the purpose and goals of a postsecondary education. Bridget Trogden is professor of engineering & science education and association dean in the division of undergraduate studies at Clemson University.

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University Business

APRIL 30, 2023

People are continuously questioning the purpose of obtaining a college degree, as well as its benefits. For example, a student who enrolls in a university to study engineering discovers that they dislike the subject and transfers to another school. We must align our definitions of success, in its varied manifestations.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

For too long, US higher education has lagged in promoting democracy-focused education as core to the purpose and goals of a postsecondary education. Bridget Trogden is professor of engineering & science education and association dean in the division of undergraduate studies at Clemson University.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 14, 2023

Enjoy the read and enjoy your day, Lindsey Downs, WCET Hundreds of colleges have closed since 2004, according to tracking by Best Colleges Most closures occurred in 2018, and the overwhelming majority of them (80%) were for-profit schools. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Best Colleges has tracked 39 school closures or mergers.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But at the college level, we need to move up a notch. I wholeheartedly agree with the Civic Learning and Democracy Engagement Coalition, which declared last year in a widely endorsed statement of Shared Commitments, we need to make civic learning for an engaged democracy an expected part of a college education.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

Implementation and Impact of July 1st Regulations The primary intent behind these regulations is to enhance accountability within higher education institutions, especially in managing federal student loan and grant programs. He returned to New York City government as Assistant City Administrator and Director of University Relations.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

While most target K-12 education, an increasing number concern colleges and universities. Yes, I am a university professor, but before that, like every teacher, I was a student. And isn’t that why education is a publicly funded civil right in America? Is that a parental “right”?

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