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Long disparaged, education for the skilled trades is slowly coming into fashion
From The Hechinger Report: “Young men in jackets and ties walk along tidy walkways that connect the redbrick buildings of the 220-acre campus of the… Read More
Fewer high school graduates go straight to college
From Inside Higher Ed: “The share of high school students enrolling directly in college continues to fall, data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center… Read More
Class action suit filed against top private college
From Inside Higher Ed: “A class action suit was filed Sunday against 16 private colleges and universities, charging them with running a ‘cartel’ and violating… Read More
US international HE ‘reinforces racism,’ study finds
From University World News: “United States university internationalisation practices and policies reproduce and reinforce cultural and social racism, according to a recent study based on… Read More
How the pandemic shrank the higher ed workforce
From Inside Higher Ed: “New data released Monday by the U.S. Education Department offer a quantitative (if retrospective) look at the collective toll of those… Read More
Colleges are hiring, but do people want to work there?
From The Chronicle of Higher Education: “In an effort to cut costs, an institution may have laid off hourly workers or not done a particularly… Read More
South Carolina assault on tenure ‘will drive academics away’
From Times Higher Education: “Republicans in the US state of South Carolina are making a bid to end tenure outright at their state universities, escalating… Read More
Dealing with COVID-19, in January
From Inside Higher Ed: “Many colleges, especially those where the winter quarter or spring semester begins today, are adjusting their academic calendars. Some colleges are… Read More
A surprising reason keeping students from finishing college: A lack of transportation
From The Hechinger Report: “Transportation can account for almost 20 percent of the cost of college for commuters, according to the College Board; 87 percent… Read More
Report: Who stops out of education and why?
From Inside Higher Ed: “Students who stop out of college are disproportionately women, low income and working students, according to a new study by the… Read More
Are post-pandemic campuses finally ready for competency-based education?
From EdSurge: “We checked in with a longtime proponent of competency based education: Paul LeBlanc, the president of Southern New Hampshire University. And he lays… Read More
Where graduate enrollments are booming
From The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Federal data show that much of the growth in graduate enrollments came from unlikely sources. It wasn’t from the… Read More
Can — and should — chatbots help students navigate mental health crises?
From Diverse Issues in Higher Education: “Recent studies … found reduced anxiety symptoms among college students who used AI chatbots. … Conducted by the Healthy… Read More
Understanding the metaverse: Nike gets a foot in the door with virtual sneakers
My AltSpace avatar has blue skin, because, well, why not? My youngest daughter’s Roblox avatar looks like a stylized version of a crying panda, because… Read More
Kiosk at PyData Global 2021
This year marked Kiosk’s third year participating in Pydata events and the second year of the all-online, global format. As in years past, leading developers,… Read More
As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening
From The Washington Post: “The Roux institute, which opened last year in borrowed space in Portland’s East End, is offering master’s degrees, certificates and professional… Read More
Protesting alleged liberal bias in higher ed, scholars announce a university of their own
From EdSurge: “The University of Austin (is) an institution-in-the-making that describes itself as committed ‘to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse.’…So its… Read More
Boris Walbaum, founder, forward college: preparing students to have an impact…now
From Learnit: “Launched in September 2021, Boris Walbaum founded Forward College, a pan-European university designed to develop all forms of human intelligences and skills. Students… Read More
New remote-first university to deliver ‘real-world’ learning
From The PIE News: “Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences aims to educate future generations to create solutions for a more sustainable society, with a focus… Read More
Udemy: Users flocked to technical training content in droves last month
From HR Drive: “October saw high consumption of technical training content among users of learning platform Udemy Business, Udemy’s corporate product, with U.S. users recording… Read More
Ohio State U. unveils a plan for all students to graduate debt-free
From The Chronicle: “Nearly half of all undergraduates at Ohio State University take out loans to help pay the costs of attending college, borrowing an… Read More
Who holds America’s 1.5 trillion student loan debt?
From The Chronicle: “In 2007, there were 28.8 million borrowers. At the end of 2017, almost 45 million people held student-loan debt, more than the… Read More
The proof liberal arts colleges need?
From Inside Higher Ed: “Richard A. Detweiler first released some of the results of his study on the long-term impact of having attended a liberal… Read More
Historically black colleges are top drivers of social mobility, report says
From The Chronicle: “Historically Black colleges and universities are better vehicles for social mobility than are other institutions, according to a new report by the… Read More