Education

“ginny,” commenting on the intro to our 2007 rankings, doesn’t approve of our method, and writes that “the next thing you know, you’ll be ranking them on the number of basket-weaving classes they have.” Believe me, ginny, when I say that this idea has already been forwarded on to the appropriate people. Look forward to […]

Well this is bizarre: The University of California at Davis revealed Thursday that for at least three years it reported an inflated number of sexual assaults to the federal government. An internal investigation and an external review both found that the university totals released for 2005, 2006 and 2007 were substantially greater than the totals […]

The Student Lending Analytics blog has a good post outlining the simultaneous—and surely not coincidental—rise in American tuition costs and decline in the United States’ world ranking of percentage of young citizens with college degrees. It even has a nifty chart, so check it out.

“cthulhu” (hopefully not the Cthulhu!) doesn’t fully agree with my assertion that whether or not a university is involved in gambling-related sponsorship deals is unlikely to have much impact on its students’ rates of harmful gambling behavior: I’m a drug dependence researcher and treatment specialist. I would agree that the initiation of gambling dependence has […]

Inside Higher Ed: Struggling to understand the national debate over health care? You’re not alone — your future doctor may well be baffled, too. A study published in the September issue of Academic Medicine found that nearly half of all medical students believe they have been inadequately educated about the “practice of medicine” — especially […]

Mark Kantrowitz, the founder and publisher of FinAid.org, has up a post at Higher Ed Watch explaining how much further we have to go in terms of helping out low-income college students: While the Obama Administration’s proposal to index the maximum Pell Grant to one percent over the inflation rate is a step in the […]

Richard Kahlenberg just wrote a Washington Monthly web exclusive in which he points out that some schools in states that have banned affirmative action are still able to do well in the social mobility category of the Washington Monthly‘s college rankings. The reason? Class-based affirmative action programs, which also do a better job of increasing […]

Here’s a Reuters article on online higher education and the key role it will have in fulfilling Obama’s ambitious college access goals: The online education sector grew 13 percent last year and had been growing at about 20 percent in previous years. Nearly one in four students take at least some college courses online, up […]

Here’s a good article on higher ed costs in South Carolina. USC vice president for student affairs Dennis Pruitt points out that the system that took a hit was already quite a shaky one: People who were counting on using their retirement funds to pay for school, in many cases those have dried up. Many […]

From The Chronicle: The University of Regina, in Saskatchewan, has so much confidence in its graduates that it’s giving them a job guarantee with their degrees. According to a news release issued today, the university promises students who complete the new UR Guarantee program’s requirements that they will get a “a great job within six […]