Austin Community College repurposed local mall into destination campus

The Highland Campus features the ACCelerator, a high-tech learning lab, as well as student gathering spaces, classrooms, and other campus mainstays.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 10, 2015

Obama announces 'College Promise' campaign, advisory board

The campaign is designed to tout the administration’s free community college proposal, as well as the range of others recently proposed or enacted.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 10, 2015

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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

New U of Iowa president turns down tenure offer

The longtime businessman has not spent any part of his professional career in academia, making even the offer of tenure seem strange — though it's not unprecedented.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 10, 2015

Princeton, UC-Berkeley top 2016 US News & World Report rankings

Williams College ranks as the top national liberal arts college and the United States Naval Academy is its top public counterpart.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 9, 2015

Supply of college graduates not meeting demands

CareerBuilder data shows an increase in degree completions from 2012 to 2014 was less than 1% per year following an unsustained uptick from 2010 to 2011.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 9, 2015

Making a case for building classes around mobile technology

Ronald Yaros created an app for his classes to help eliminate distractions that competed with classwork. 

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 9, 2015

Kentucky for-profit Daymar to settle with former students

The proposed settlement calls for Daymar to pay almost $1.8 million, which will be split among Kentucky and out-of-state students.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 9, 2015

Survey: Higher ed presidents largely in support of debt-free college

The Gallup/Inside Higher Ed poll asked 523 college and university presidents, finding most private institutions opposed and most public in favor.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 9, 2015

Beyond student progress: How Ivy Tech is approaching data analytics

The Indiana school is exploring a range of uses, like tracking faculty outcomes and financial aid fraud.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 8, 2015

Duncan, Perez argue for K-14 expansion

An additional two years would better facilitate career education for the 21st Century economy, according to the education and labor secretaries.

By Roger Riddell • Sept. 8, 2015

What should institutions consider when working with big data?

Building momentum from small victories and thinking through the end-game helps foster a culture that respects data and keeps it front and center in decision-making.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 8, 2015

11 Tennessee schools join consortium aimed at boosting faculty, staff diversity

Vanderbilt will host the nonprofit Greater Tennessee Higher Education Recruitment Consortium, or Greater TN HERC.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 8, 2015

Denver mulls tax increase to raise $10M for college scholarships

The city council gave preliminary approval to send the tax proposition to voters, who will decide whether the fund is worth 8 cents on every $100 purchase.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 8, 2015

Colleges turn to outsourced counseling services for students needing support

In some cases, the service is an extension of an Employee Assistance Program, targeted to students, and it serves as a lower-cost option that meets demand.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 8, 2015

U of Iowa presidential search ends with controversial choice

The Iowa Board of Regents chose business consultant J. Bruce Harreld after tense questioning about his lack of academic leadership experience.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 8, 2015

More Choices Can Mean Better Results When Looking at OPM

Exploring best practices in Online Program Management (OPM) evaluation, negotiation and success.

By Dale Leatherwood • Sept. 8, 2015

Washington Monthly publishes its take on college ranking priorities

Sixteen of the top 20 schools are public, with Harvard and Stanford the only two traditional elites cracking the top 10.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 4, 2015

U of Rochester cuts business school tuition to improve ranking outlier status

Simon Business School will drop its two-year tuition cost to $92,000 from $106,500 after years of standard increases that weren't in line with its peers.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 4, 2015

Why open educational resources aren't catching on with some faculty

In many cases, they don’t know what OER is, aren't familiar with the Creative Commons licensing that covers it, or don’t know where to find it.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 4, 2015

Wariness looms over federal aid for coding bootcamps

The Century Foundation is urging the Education Department to keep in mind that the for-profit sector began with lofty goals for innovation, too.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 4, 2015

Lobbying spikes to save expiring Perkins Loan program

The program is running on a one year extension that ends Sept. 30, after which Congress would need to take action to keep it alive.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 4, 2015

University researchers could see major benefits from new medical trial rules

A joint group of federal departments have been working to overhaul the rules guiding human participation since 2011.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 3, 2015

Achieving the Dream to partner with Echo360 for student engagement study

The partnership will give the community college reform network a chance to dig deeper into specific factors that contribute to positive outcomes.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 3, 2015

Network attached storage systems touted for reliability, scalability, access

NAS systems may have gotten flak in the past, but tech improvements make them an ideal backup in a multi-tiered data protection strategy.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 3, 2015

UCF enrolls more students than it has seats, live-streams lectures to overflow

Lecture-capture technology allows the university to offer intro courses to more students than its classrooms fit.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 3, 2015