In recent years, more data have come out on how well students are able to manage repaying their loans beyond the three-year window currently used for federal accountability purposes (via cohort default rates). A great 2015 paper by Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis used tax records merged with data from the National Student Loan Data… Read more »
Higher Education
Harvard Faculty Reconsiders Single-Gender Club Ban
Harvard faculty met Tuesday afternoon to reconsider a proposed ban on fraternities, sororities and other single-gender social clubs. After recommending the College prohibit students from joining the groups, they may be backtracking after receiving flack from former students.
Examining Trends in Student Loan Repayment Rates
It’s been a good week for higher education data nerds. The Department of Education released updated student loan cohort default rates on Wednesday afternoon (see my summary here), followed by an update to the massive College Scorecard dataset on Thursday morning. This is the third update to the Scorecard, with this year’s update also featuring… Read more »
Higher Education Must Stand Up for Puerto Rico
Hurricane Maria is Trump’s Katrina
How to Save the Humanities? Make Them a Requirement Toward a Business Degree
One Canadian university sets out to prove the value of the humanities in lucrative careers
The Road to a Stable Job—Without Crippling Student Debt
A novel grant program in Virginia is helping workers earn career-boosting occupational credentials.
WATCH: How Can Colleges Better Serve Adult Students?
Some 40 percent of college students are 25 or older, but most colleges aren’t very responsive to adult learners.
The Best (and Worst) Colleges for Adults
Join us on Thursday, September 14 for an event on how colleges can better serve adult students.
Why Democrats Should Dump ‘Free College’
Free college is not so much a populist idea as an elitist one.
A Peek Inside the New IPEDS Outcome Measures Dataset
Much of higher education policy focuses on “traditional” college students—those who started college at age 18 after getting dropped off in the family station wagon or minivan, enrolled full-time, and stayed at that institution until graduation. Yet although this is how many policymakers and academics experienced college (I’m no exception), this represents a minority of… Read more »
