New Jersey state schools fight for more equal funding

The variation in per-student funding is significant, though officials say they don't even remember how the formula was designed or why.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 22, 2016

Income gap starts with major selection

Research from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce finds black students overwhelmingly choose majors that lead to lower-paying jobs.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 22, 2016

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Enrollment and Retention

A look at the pandemic's continuing impact on enrollment and how colleges can ensure students stay on course.

By Higher Ed Dive staff

Virginia to offer inmates CTE credit

Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced a new plan to give inmates credit for up to five ACE-recommended career and technical education courses.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 21, 2016

Big data offers path forward for retention initiatives

Colleges and universities can use big data to develop predictive models that are unique to their student bodies, tailoring efforts to what will work best.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 21, 2016

Non-tenured faculty at Duke latest to unionize

The union election at Duke University was the first at a private university in the South in decades, joining a wave of similar efforts in Chicago, Boston and DC.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 21, 2016

Hollins U thrives in struggling sector

The Roanoke, VA, university is just more than an hour from Sweet Briar College but it has continued to flourish, attracting a diverse student body to its all-female undergraduate program.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 21, 2016

Two-year college contracts Pearson for recruitment, retention

Cincinnati State Technical and Community College's 10-year deal will give the company a portion of the marketing budget and tuition revenue to increase enrollment and retention.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 21, 2016

SXSWedu, OER, and Newtown: The week’s most-read education news

Don't fall behind! Catch up on the Department of Education's latest financial responsibility test and more here.

By Roger Riddell • March 18, 2016

While Ed Dept debates loan forgiveness, repayment trends are good

A rule-making panel is considering ways to make it easier for students to have their college debt forgiven as the department announces positive repayment trends among borrowers.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 18, 2016

Financial aid shifts hurt lower-income students the most

As colleges work harder to recruit wealthy students who can pay full tuition, they are reallocating aid dollars that could have opened access to students from low-income families.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 18, 2016

Research suggests better adjunct pay would be too expensive

Strong opposition has formed against the conclusions formed by Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness following a case study involving adjuncts for the Journal of Business Ethics.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 18, 2016

Mandatory arbitration clauses may become a thing of the past

A rule-making panel for the Department of Education is considering two proposals that would restrict or outright ban colleges from preventing students from taking them to court.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 18, 2016

North Carolina, Mississippi turn to bonds for college financing

North Carolina voters supported a $2 billion bond initiative this week for colleges and universities, and the Mississippi legislature is considering a similar proposal.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 18, 2016

Institutions face workplace climate consequences of campus carry

The threat of aggressive students and disgruntled employees plague new campus carry legislation.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 17, 2016

ASAPbio poised to disrupt scientific publishing

An online option for publishing preprints of life sciences papers is receiving attention for its potential to speed access to new research by circumventing lengthier processes.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 17, 2016

Critics speak out against New York SARA participation

The state is set to join 36 others in an authorization reciprocity agreement allowing online colleges to be regulated by their home states, which critics say could hurt students.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 17, 2016

Colorado State offers computer science bootcamp in online program

CSU-Global’s new online degree program features five eight-week courses that can be taken on their own or as a specialization within a bachelor’s degree in IT.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 17, 2016

UC System seeks balance between first amendment, discrimination policy

The 'principles against intolerance' currently under consideration by the University of California board of regents single out anti-Semitism in particular.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 17, 2016

Ed Dept to fire monitor of former Corinthian campuses

Zenith Education Group manages a number of former Corinthian Colleges Inc., campuses and the Department of Education has confirmed it will fire a law firm tasked with overseeing them.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 16, 2016

Texas university faculty upset by admins' LMS monitoring

Faculty at Our Lady of the Lake University noticed administrators adding themselves to course rosters to monitor communication and course content without advising instructors.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 16, 2016

Lumina Foundation papers explore outcomes-based funding

A batch of five policy papers offers insights from outcomes-based funding models in Tennessee, where there are early indicators of success, and Texas, where success has been limited.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 16, 2016

Adaptive tech helps National Louis U reach underserved learners

The university is recruiting Chicago-area students for the Harrison Professional Pathways Program, which uses Carnegie Mellon’s Acrobatiq for a competency-based, blended model.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 16, 2016

USD mobile app helps students transition to college life

The personal assistant mobile app USD Insight gives students university-specific information to help them stay on track, using data from the LMS, SIS and CRM.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 16, 2016

8 pieces of ed tech news to note from SXSWedu 2016

If you couldn't be in Austin or see everything on display, here are eight things that caught our attention.

By Roger Riddell • March 15, 2016

New analysis documents decline in humanities majors

The portion of humanities majors as a percentage of all bachelor’s degree graduates is at its lowest point since the American Academy of Arts & Sciences started collecting reliable data.

By Tara García Mathewson • March 14, 2016