Higher Education

Can no find a way learn during the day? Last week the College Guide ran a piece about the increasing popularity of night classes, which allow students to work full time while attending college. When they sleep is another matter. The popularity of this concept is spreading. Indiana’s Ivy Tech Community College announced that it […]

Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. that needs two-thirds of its legislature to approve tuition increases. Perhaps because of this, in the state the relationship between college cost and college effectiveness is, if not transparent, at least something people openly discuss. From an article in The Advocate comes news that: The Legislature should […]

Chris Christie, the Republican governor-elect of New Jersey, who campaigned promising to increase state support for education and called the New Jersey funding for higher education “deplorable,” said he may cut state aid to public colleges in his first budget. A hilarious piece by Joey Novak at PolitickerNJ.com ridicules Christie’s plan as a value add […]

From Inside Higer Ed comes news that Apollo group, the company that owns the for-profit University of Phoenix, has agreed to settle out of court and pay the U.S. government $67.5 million in a case that accused Phoenix of illegally compensating college recruiters. Apollo has also agreed to pay $11 million in legal fees. In […]

An established measure of the effectiveness of colleges has long been the graduation rate over a six year period. One criticism of the rate is that it fails to take into account the barriers students have to college success. If a college student is poor, or has children, or must also support a family the […]

Two days ago the Senate passed a spending bill that will fund the Department of Education, the NIH, and many other education programs in 2010. Most Americans are too distracted by Washington’s health care fight to give the spending bill much time. Even higher education people are mostly distracted by waiting for health care do […]

The success of achieving president Obama’s education goals and making the U.S. the place that has “the highest proportion of students graduating from college in the world by 2020” depends on how well the U.S. educates American Hispanics; in 16 years, almost one quarter of college-age adults will be Latino. The trouble, according to “Taking […]

In an update to the story of the mayor of Pittsburgh’s attempt to tax local college students, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the schools are still absolutely opposed to the mayor’s plan: Pittsburgh’s universities told Mayor Luke Ravenstahl yesterday they won’t agree to his call for them to contribute $5 million to city coffers to […]

Drake Bennett had an interesting piece in the Boston Globe yesterday about intellectual property and the university. A few years ago a Harvard graduate, Andrew Magliozzi started a website called Finalsclub.org. Among other things FinalsClub pays Harvard students to post their class notes online. But the site is not just an aid for slackers. According […]

New rules for student loan defaults would cause many schools to lose federal money. According to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education: More than 220 colleges have long-term student loan default rates so high that they would lose all federal student financial assistance under the terms of a new law that eventually will […]