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As student engagement falls, colleges wonder: ‘Are we part of the problem?’
From EdSurge: “As the pandemic progresses, professors are sharing stories about what feels to them like widespread student disengagement. … It’s often said that online… Read More
Do US campus ‘crime labs’ hurt the communities they seek to help?
From Times Higher Education: “Efforts by US universities to cut local crime rates may be backfiring in places … The initiatives include the Crime Lab… Read More
US campuses quickly embracing online student services platforms
From Times Higher Education: “Years after the technology started spreading in other industries, at least 131 institutions took the leap in 2021 into modern cloud-based… Read More
A passport to work
From The Chronicle of Higher Education: “When Anson Tan got the call offering him an internship with a major airline, the junior business and finance… Read More
Post-pandemic study habits in university students
From Institute for the Future of Education: “According to the survey results, virtual education led 66% of university students to acquire between one and two… Read More
Fact sheet: Biden-Harris Administration announces over $25 billion in American rescue plan funding to help ensure every American has access to high speed, affordable internet
From The White House: “The Biden-Harris Administration is announcing new investments from the American Rescue Plan to help provide every American with access to affordable,… Read More
Facebook seems to be adding video-course features. For Edtech, that raises old fears.
From EdSurge: “The tech giant Meta, widely known under its previous name Facebook, seems to be eyeing a way to allow users to offer video… Read More
Shifting skills, moving targets, and remaking the workforce
From Boston Consulting Group: “A comprehensive look at job listings from 2016 through 2021 reveals significant changes in requested skills, with new skills appearing, some… Read More
Smoke without fire? Inside the college price-fixing case
From University World News: “Congressional staffers in Washington are keeping a wary eye on the progress of a class action antitrust case that alleges that… Read More
Create 50 campuses in higher education ‘cold spots’, says report
From Times Higher Education: “The Westminster government should see higher education as integral to the levelling-up agenda instead of ‘taking any opportunity to pick a… Read More
Congress should scrutinize higher ed’s use of predictive analytics, watchdog says
From The Chronicle of Higher Education: “They’re the invisible infrastructure that colleges and universities rely on to target prospective students for recruitment, to build financial-aid… Read More
With money from Facebook, 10 colleges turn their campuses into ‘metaversities’
From EdSurge: “Ten higher education institutions across the U.S. have signed up to create digital versions of themselves that look 3D and feel immersive when… Read More
Preparing for the metaverse with e-portfolios
From Inside Higher Ed: “Colleges and universities must think now about the practical steps they should take to prepare for such a new type of… Read More
Guild education reaches $4.4 billion valuation as labor market demands continue—and a downturn threat rises
From Forbes: “Guild Education cofounder and CEO Rachel Romer Carlson is no stranger to celebrity. … Still, Carlson, who Forbes has named one of America’s… Read More
A radical change for admissions
From Inside Higher Ed: “Imagine a new way for colleges to admit students: students don’t apply. They just create a single, basic portfolio, showing their… Read More
US students make gains in lawsuits over online teaching
From Times Higher Education: “Two years into the pandemic, US students are having some initial success in suing their institutions for abruptly moving courses online,… Read More
Class attendance plummets post-Covid
From Times Higher Education: “Student attendance and in-class participation remains at a far lower level compared with before the pandemic, according to a global survey… Read More
The potential dark side of a white-hot labor market
From The New York Times: “Strong labor markets often encourage people to forgo training … Cutting working hours to go to class right now means… Read More
Gainful employment change could harm for-profits
From Inside Higher Ed: “Under the Biden administration’s proposed gainful-employment rule, 40 percent of programs at for-profit colleges would fail, potentially risking their ability to… Read More
‘An affront to open discourse’
From Inside Higher Ed: “The recent wave of educational “gag orders” restricting the teaching of race, gender or other so-called divisive concepts is a dire… Read More
Biden decision on student-loan forgiveness unlikely until later in summer, officials say
From The Wall Street Journal: “President Biden is likely to decide later this summer whether to partially forgive student-loan debt for millions of borrowers, according… Read More
$5.8 billion for former corinthian students
From Inside Higher Ed: “The Education Department will automatically discharge $5.8 billion in federal student loans owed by over 560,000 borrowers who attended any campus… Read More
How much student loan debt has the biden administration cancelled to date?
From Third Way: “As calls from some policymakers and advocates to cancel all student loan debt grow louder, the headlines often imply that President Biden… Read More
After lull, employers renew interest in helping workers repay student debt
From The Washington Post: “Nearly half of the 250 large employers — those with more than 500 employees — surveyed by the Institute in 2021… Read More