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This week in 5 numbers: No answer at the Education Department’s FAFSA call center
We’re rounding up top recent stories, from watchdog reports on the FAFSA debacle to surcharges on students at Arizona State University.
By Ben Unglesbee • Sept. 27, 2024 -
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Scathing GAO reports blame Education Department leaders for FAFSA mess
A monthslong investigation found the department failed to properly oversee vendors and communicate with colleges and students.
By Laura Spitalniak • Sept. 24, 2024 -
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Mental Health and Wellness
This Trendline examines how colleges can address rising mental health concerns and support at-risk groups, such as transgender students and college athletes.
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This week in 5 numbers: Academic publishers hit with antitrust lawsuit
We’re rounding up top recent stories, from a legal complaint targeting free peer review to a Chicago college looking to cut academic programs.
By Natalie Schwartz • Sept. 20, 2024 -
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This week in 5 numbers: Wittenberg University makes heavy employee cuts
We’re rounding up some of our top recent stories, from an Ohio institution laying off staff and faculty to a Brown University trustee resigning.
By Natalie Schwartz • Sept. 13, 2024 -
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Attacks on higher ed could portend Southern ‘brain drain,’ AAUP says
Almost half of surveyed members saw a decline in applications for faculty positions, and more than a quarter reported seeking jobs elsewhere.
By Laura Spitalniak • Sept. 10, 2024 -
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Q&AHigher ed construction pendulum back in full swing
Messer’s Nick Proffitt sees burgeoning demand in the sector, from student housing to athletic and academic buildings.
By Matthew Thibault • Sept. 9, 2024 -
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This week in numbers: UNC’s gambit to reengage stopped-out students
We’re rounding up our top recent stories, from a North Carolina initiative to reenroll students to one college's decades-long path toward reaccreditation.
By Laura Spitalniak • Sept. 6, 2024 -
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Common App to expand direct admissions effort
The online portal will offer proactive acceptance letters from 116 colleges during the 2024-25 application cycle.
By Laura Spitalniak • Updated Sept. 5, 2024 -
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How Boston University manages the disposal chaos of move-out season
One of the largest universities in Massachusetts diverted an estimated 113 tons of material from disposal as students left in May.
By Cole Rosengren • Sept. 4, 2024 -
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This week in 5 numbers: UMGC’s $25.7M failed IT project
We’re rounding up some of our top recent stories, from an audit of a public online college to a merger in Texas.
By Natalie Schwartz • Aug. 30, 2024 -
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This week in 5 numbers: Officials call for probe into Sasse’s spending
We’re rounding up top recent stories, from outcry over presidential office spending to a look at the size of U.S. versus European colleges.
By Natalie Schwartz • Aug. 23, 2024 -
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University of California and Cal State tighten protest rules ahead of fall term
Officials from both systems said their institutions won't allow encampments or protesters to wear masks to conceal their identities.
By Laura Spitalniak • Aug. 20, 2024 -
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This week in 5 numbers: Inside the online college marketplace
We’re rounding up some of our top recent stories, from a survey of chief online learning officers to employee cuts at another public institution.
By Natalie Schwartz • Aug. 16, 2024 -
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3 Columbia employees resign amid texting scandal
The officials had previously lost their titles over text exchanges that the institution's president said “touched on ancient antisemitic tropes.”
By Laura Spitalniak • Aug. 9, 2024 -
This week in 5 numbers: 2 Catholic universities in Iowa to combine
We’re rounding up some of our top recent stories, from further consolidation in the sector to another college planning faculty cuts.
By Natalie Schwartz • Aug. 9, 2024 -
Liberty University acquires Virginia Technical Institute’s educational components
The move is meant to offer students shorter pathways to employment, the evangelical institution said last week.
By Laura Spitalniak • Aug. 5, 2024 -
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Sponsored by ThroughlinesHow to talk about race in the classroom
A college classroom should be a place where students and teachers try out new ideas.
By Leah Newsom • Aug. 5, 2024 -
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This week in 5 numbers: Valparaiso makes academic cuts
We’re rounding up some of our top recent stories, from another university eliminating programs to the latest details of 2U’s bankruptcy.
By Natalie Schwartz • Aug. 2, 2024 -
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Only 36% of adults say higher education is ‘fine how it is,’ survey finds
Although respondents flagged issues with college affordability, the majority said they think postsecondary education provides a good return on investment.
By Natalie Schwartz • Aug. 1, 2024 -
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Education Department reverses course on batch FAFSA corrections
The change could increase colleges’ administrative burden and leave some students without financial aid this fall, one industry association said.
By Laura Spitalniak • July 31, 2024 -
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Valparaiso to eliminate over 2 dozen academic programs
The private Indiana university will also cut faculty positions as part of the downsizing but did not specify how many.
By Laura Spitalniak • July 30, 2024 -
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Workers with 4-year degrees will hold most good jobs in 2031, report predicts
Georgetown University researchers expect 15 million more good jobs will be created for workers with bachelor’s diplomas in the decade following 2021.
By Laura Spitalniak • July 30, 2024 -
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This week in 5 numbers: Inside the complex world of tuition discounting
We’re rounding up some of our top recent stories, from a look at ever-rising college sticker prices to higher education policy trends coming down the pike.
By Natalie Schwartz • July 26, 2024 -
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This week in numbers: Dickinson State president to step down after nursing faculty exits
We’re rounding up our top recent stories, from the fallout of a mass resignation at Dickinson State to the growing legal victories against the new Title IX rule.
By Laura Spitalniak • July 19, 2024 -
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ACT to shorten exam time and make science portion optional
The changes come after the College Board cut the SAT's run time earlier this year.
By Laura Spitalniak • July 17, 2024
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