Higher Ed Data Stories

JANUARY 13, 2024

If you believe you can extract strategy from prior activities, I have something for you to try to make sense of here. This is a long compilation of tuition and fees at America's Flagship and Land Grant institutions. If you are not quite sure about the distinction between those two types of institutions, you might want to read this first. TLDR: Land Grants were created by an act of congress, and for this purpose, flagships are whoever I say they are.

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HEPI

JANUARY 13, 2024

HEPI Director Nick Hillman takes a look at PwC’s new assessment of the financial health of the UK’s higher education institutions. On Christmas Day, my family gave me a lovely new fountain pen (made out of plectrums by this master craftsman since you ask). There was one other thing at the top of my Christmas wish list too, although – unlike the pen – it has only just arrived.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2024

A series of bills to fund and expand the state's Tuition Assistance Program were introduced Monday. It comes on the heels of SUNY enrollment increasing for the first time in a decade, but also amid major funding concerns over the next decade. The Tuition Assistance program is about to turn 50, and lawmakers say in the past half-century, it hasn’t kept pace with the changing realities of higher education in New York state.

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ACPA

JANUARY 13, 2024

[link] “To Comply or Not to Comply? That Is Not the Question: A Multi Content Analysis of Title IX Policies or Historically Black Land Grant Universities” (November 27, 2023) The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) enforces, among other statutes, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. While Title IX is directed towards the prevention of discrimination in collegiate athletics, Title IX does not explicitly remedy only issues in college athleti

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2024

Early last year, the University of California Academic Senate changed the system’s policies to essentially ban students from earning a fully online bachelor’s degree from any of its 10 campuses. The decision drew both internal and external criticism that the university was ignoring the potential benefits of virtual learning—and troubled some UC administrators and regents who believe the governing board must have a say in changing the institution’s degree offerings.

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