Jesse Singal

Here’s a Reuters article on online higher education and the key role it will have in fulfilling Obama’s ambitious college access goals: The online education sector grew 13 percent last year and had been growing at about 20 percent in previous years. Nearly one in four students take at least some college courses online, up […]

Here’s a good article on higher ed costs in South Carolina. USC vice president for student affairs Dennis Pruitt points out that the system that took a hit was already quite a shaky one: People who were counting on using their retirement funds to pay for school, in many cases those have dried up. Many […]

From The Chronicle: The University of Regina, in Saskatchewan, has so much confidence in its graduates that it’s giving them a job guarantee with their degrees. According to a news release issued today, the university promises students who complete the new UR Guarantee program’s requirements that they will get a “a great job within six […]

Inside Higher Ed: Increasing numbers of young Americans are choosing to enter postsecondary education through community colleges — but too many of them are having to work and attend part time and too few of them are leaving with degrees as a result, the think tank Demos argues in a report released Tuesday. The report’s […]

Speaking of reasons Harvard alums shouldn’t give to the school, here’s Kevin Carey in a Monday column in The Chronicle: Harvard spent the money on many things. But not a dollar went to increasing the number of undergraduates it chose to bless with a Harvard education. In 1990 the university welcomed slightly more than 1,600 […]

Speaking of the corrupting influence of college sports, Deadspin has a good rundown of a rather ugly scandal at Binghamton University, where the basketball team has seen better days—six players were recently kicked off the team for various legal and academic issues, including the starting point guard, who was arrested on charges of possessing and […]

It takes a close reading to fully detect this, but I almost get the sense that Michael O’Hare isn’t thrilled with how the school he teaches at, U.C. Berkeley, has handled some recent issues pertaining to athletics: When it rains, it pours. Two days after President Yudof humiliated himself and the university he heads, drove […]

Inside Higher Ed has a piece on a report (PDF) released yesterday that takes aim at gambling on campus and how to curb it, an important task given that between 3 and 11 percent of college students have serious gambling problems. The report included ten recommendations “aimed at reframing how institutions tackle gambling issues.” This […]

Inside Higher Ed has a very Campus 2.0 article on a new problem facing college administrators: new students who already have email addresses and are therefore reluctant to use the ones their schools provide. In order to keep things simple, many students set up their institutional accounts to automatically forward mail to one of their […]

I know I recently argued that journalism school isn’t worth the cost, but today the Boston Herald changed my mind. If attending J-school could teach me to write like this, I’d happily bite the bullet and do so: Tufts University bans nookie if roomie ‘is present’ Dorm rooms doubling as steamy love huts have Tufts […]