Higher Education

How Maryland held the line on college costs.

The Los Angeles Times reports on a rather grim scene in Fullerton, California: The busload of future college students from Whittier High School who took a field trip Wednesday to Cal State Fullerton got less — and more — than they were expecting. They didn’t get a feel for student life on campus because there […]

So the story of the Georgetown sophomore searching for a personal assistant to do laundry, fill up his car with gas, and complete various other menial tasks has reached the pages of The Washington Post. Readers of the original Georgetown Voice blog post on the subject quickly figured out his name, and he responded to […]

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Via the Chronicle, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) has a piece in this week’s Newsweek making the case for more three-year degree programs at colleges and universities. Alexander, a former president at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, can speak from experience when he opines on higher education issues, and his solution is an immediately sensible […]

Inside Higher Ed: After several years of experimenting with “hybrid” Spanish courses that mix online and classroom instruction, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has decided to begin conducting its introductory Spanish course exclusively on the Web. Spanish 101, which had featured online lessons combined with one classroom session per week, will drop […]

This isn’t particularly surprising: At community colleges, an underperforming high school graduate studying computer science is much more likely to see an earnings increase than a well-prepared high school graduate studying literature. That is the conclusion of a new analysis designed to explore the factors that predict which community college students will gain the most […]

Via Consumerist, CampusGrotto.com has up a list of the country’s most expensive colleges. The top 10: 1. Sarah Lawrence College – $54,410 2. New York University – $51,991 3. The George Washington University – $51,730 4. Bates College – $51,300 5. Skidmore College – $51,196 6. Johns Hopkins University – $51,190 7. Georgetown University – […]

Emily, a student at Princeton, commented on my post from yesterday: I mean, it is surprising and it isn’t. As I said when I first saw that article, it definitely bucks convention to think that Yale would be behind the trend on something sociosexual, and that Princeton would have gotten there first. But there are […]

Speaking of incoming freshman who aren’t ready for a rigorous college curriculum, the Las Vegas Sun reports on UNLV’s attempts to figure out why this is such a commonplace occurrence: In 2008, more than a third of the Nevada high school graduates who enrolled at the state’s universities and colleges required remedial classes in English […]