Higher Education

From the Community College Times: Jane Oates, assistant secretary for employment and training at the U.S. Department of Labor, challenged four-year universities at an economic symposium at Harper College (Illinois) to look at how their students fare job-wise after they graduate. “If four-year colleges don’t start thinking about the occupational outcomes of their students, they […]

Inside Higher Ed highlights has some more disturbing numbers on that whole whole college-football-coaches-are-overpaid thing. For each school below, the middle column is the average salary of an assistant football coach at that institution. The right column is the average salary of a professor there. Louisiana State U. * $302,809 * $110,600 U. of Alabama […]

The Tampa Tribune has a short writeup from Arthur F. Kirk, Jr., president of Saint Leo University, discussing the new GI Bill that went into effect August 1st. One very cool feature of it is the Yellow Ribbon program: More than 700 private schools nationally enrolled in the Veterans Administration “Yellow Ribbon” program to exempt […]

A column by Vick Warnsley in Mississippi State University’s The Reflector makes the case for a textbook rental program rather effectively. Students spend $800 – $900 per year on textbooks, yet only about 20 schools nationwide offer a textbook rental program. There’s the update issue, of course—textbook publishers go out of their way to update […]

From a Boston Globe editorial: MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE students are not allowed to get health coverage through the state Connector Authority’s program of subsidized Commonwealth Care. So private, for-profit health insurance companies are making a killing on students who are not covered by their parents, spouses, or employers. The state, which is exploring ways to ease […]

ThePittsburghChannel.com is covering some of the reaction to Mayor Luke Ravenstah’s plan to impose a 1 percent tuition tax on post-secondary students in Pittsburgh. A couple quotes: “It will be an additional burden on students, most of whom already are struggling,” University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Mark Nordenberg said at the Pittsburgh Council on Higher Education’s […]

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education has a good, in-depth rundown of the numerous problems Frank Brogan, the (relatively) new chancellor of Florida’s university system, is facing down there.

Wick Sloane has a moving Inside Higher Ed piece on young veterans in higher education. In case you were wondering, the total number of veterans enrolled at Yale, Princeton, and Williams is… zero.

Over at BloggEd (note: I originally wrongly referred to the blog as Campus Comment), Ben Yagoda pulls some highlights from a USA Today story on football coaches’ salaries at big D-I programs: * Fifty-six coaches make over $1 million a year (25 pull in over $2 mil, nine over $3 mil, and three $4 mil […]

Psychology Today has up a good blog post on education, unemployment, and technology which includes a couple impressive examples of distance learning. Brick and mortar institutions can’t offer the flexibility to facilitate the needs of many, particularly adult learners, so it’s exciting to see different solutions using distance learning models springing up. For example, the […]