Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education has an important article about remedial education. It highlights the story of Kafayat Olayinka, a student at the University of the District of Columbia. Olayinka graduated from a D.C. school with a 3.5 GPA, but did very poorly on the battery of tests given to all incoming freshmen at UDC. […]

The Washington Post highlights a different part of the College Board report I mentioned earlier: Tuition and fees for public four-year colleges are now $7,020 on average and for private colleges $26,273, the College Board reported Tuesday, with prices rising faster in the public sector. Colleges and universities have not slashed sticker prices in response […]

The Wall Street Journal reports: The volume of private student loans plunged by 52% in 2008-2009 as recession-battered lenders tightened credit standards for borrowers and many abandoned what had been a fast-growing sector of the financial-aid market. Students and their families took out an estimated $11 billion in private student loans for the 2008-2009 school […]

Apparently, every Ivy League school other than Yale has gender-neutral housing. For Yale, not yet, but apparently the school’s upper brass are all on board with going that route eventually and are working out a few logistical hiccups. Gender-neutral housing may still be fodder for social conservatives, maybe, but it’s no longer a controversial issue […]

Inside Higher Ed: Tuesday, the California Public Interest Research Group is releasing a report detailing a survey, conducted during the past spring and summer semesters, of community college students across the state. Chiefly, students were asked about their “work habits, their understanding of financial aid and how these factors might affect their academic success.” The […]

The Georgetown Voice notes that a Georgetown University sophomore is looking for a personal assistant: As my PA you will receive an email once a day by 9:00 am with a task list for that day and a time estimate for each task. Important tasks will be bolded on the list and must be done […]

“Who are the Millenials?” As Eric Hoover points out in his recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, this is, quite literally, a multi-million-dollar question: one that has led well-compensated consultants to spill buckets of ink for countless universities around the country, all in the interest of tailoring admissions mailings, extracurricular activities, and even […]

Via Deadspin, if you’ve ever wondered what it would look like if members of Duke’s basketball team reenacted famous cinematic moments (and who hasn’t!?), then you’re in luck: I must admit that the Titanic segment elicited a chuckle, but other than that this is an air ball.

Things are bad enough right now if you are a poor American citizen scrapping to pay your way through college. They’re worse, however, if you are a poor noncitizen trying to do the same: While much of the evidence is anecdotal, undocumented students across the country have been hampered in their quests for higher learning […]

Well, at least we’re not the only ones: The gap in educational success between rich and poor areas of Britain is widening, despite investment of millions of pounds each year, according to research published today. A day before Lord Mandelson, the Universities Secretary, outlines the Government’s strategy for increasing social mobility through wider access to […]