Higher Education

The blog for CNN’s American Morning has up a helpful post on applying for financial aid for college. The key is for students to begin the application process early. If they don’t, an already bad situation can get worse, and some good opportunities can be missed: Additionally, many schools have created “adverse economic circumstances funds” […]

An Inside Higher Ed article suggests that the recession-catalyzed increase in college enrollment may not mean what we think it means for private colleges: Private colleges bolstered financial aid and decreased selectivity to help sustain enrollment in a downward economy, but a significant number still expect tuition and fee revenues to decline this year, according […]

Inside Higher Ed has up a piece on some of the negative reactions to the Center for American Progress white paper I blogged about yesterday, which called for the Department of Education to create a consumer protection office for the nation’s higher education system. The article is worth a read, but the rebuttal is best […]

The New York Post reports: “The Wire,” HBO’s gritty series about life in the Baltimore ghetto, is about to become a course at Harvard. The announcement came at a panel discussion at the school featuring several of the show’s stars, according to the Harvard student newspaper, The Crimson. The class will be taught by sociology […]

The Center for American Progress has up a good white paper (when I first posted this I incorrectly referred to it as a column) about one of the foundational shortcomings in the United States’ higher education system: Students make customer choices based on available information, interests, abilities and life circumstances that will mostly determine whether […]

Hey, I know things are bad. But there’s nothing wrong with distracting ourselves with a small dose of jingoistic revelry: American universities again dominate the latest Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings as they have for the past six years. Released last Friday, almost a week earlier than expected, the rankings place US universities in all but […]

If you haven’t already read Stephen Burd’s piece on predatory loans made by for-profit colleges in the current issue of the Washington Monthly, you should, post-haste. If you have, then you should read occasional College Guide blog contributor Pedro de la Torre’s blog post on the subject over at Funding our Future, which serves as […]

President Obama has won plaudits for saying and doing the right things when it comes to the importance of the nation’s community colleges, but the current situation is so bleak that his plan may not be enough: Much of the money for the nation’s 1,200 community colleges comes from local and state sources. That funding […]

Not particularly surprising, but I still find it a bit interesting that college presidents’ salaries are so much more reasonable than those of the CEOs of other sectors.

Inside Higher Ed has an article on Amanda H. Goodall, a fellow at Britain’s University of Warwick, and her new book, Socrates in the Boardroom: Why Research Universities Should Be Led by Top Scholars. Goodall claims that the best college presidents come from traditional academic backgrounds. There are four reasons for this: * “Scholars are […]