Editorial: Doing the math on higher education
Lansing State Journal
A key agenda item is better state funding for higher education, coupled with accountability for results. CEO Doug Rothwell makes a compelling case based on research. A decade ago, state support covered about 50 percent of college budgets; now it's less ...
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College Chiefs Contemplate Completion
Inside Higher Ed
College leaders should embrace the goal of getting college degrees into the hands of more Americans, which may require changes in campus culture and more aggressive steps to improve graduation rates, a group of college presidents from across all ...
College Survey: Finance Worries Up, Politics ShiftDiverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
To Raise Graduation Rate, Colleges Are Urged to Help a Changing Student BodyNew York Times
Campus Notebook: Advanced degrees, college dropouts are upAlbany Times Union
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Inside Higher Ed
Minding the Money
Inside Higher Ed
One might hope that the economic recession, which formally ended in 2009, is no longer inhibiting students' educational pursuits -- or, perhaps more realistically, not as much. But an annual survey of freshmen suggests precisely the opposite: more ...
Incoming Freshmen Consider Cost and Value of Degree When Choosing SchoolDiverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
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Inside Higher Ed
Being Present
Inside Higher Ed
One potentially positive result of the current fascination with online education is that universities and colleges may be forced to define and defend quality education. This analysis of what we value should help us to present to the public the ...
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Dan Logue: $10K college degrees good for students, state
Appeal-Democrat
Parents and students across California have been struggling for too long to afford the rising costs of our state's public colleges and universities. In recent years, tuition and fees have skyrocketed, threatening access to the California dream of a ...
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Backgrounds and Beliefs of College Freshmen
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Use this interactive graphic to see how their attitudes and self-images have changed since the 1960s, as measured by UCLA's Cooperative Institutional Research Program, part of the Higher Education Research Institute. How would you describe the racial ...
How Far the Apple Falls
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
To that end, the researchers released a report in 2006 on first-generation students, finding that greater shares of them went to college within 50 miles of home. The students considered proximity to home a key factor in deciding where to enroll and ...
Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
Financial Concerns Push Institutions to Consider Their Conference Affiliations
Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
Most higher education leaders acknowledge that costs have gotten to a point where they are more than footnote items. That said, nothing short of laws, a fundamental change of heart or a financial crisis is likely to change the race to be in the big ...
Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
Incoming Freshmen Consider Cost and Value of Degree When Choosing School
Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
Those are some of the key findings of a new survey released Wednesday by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), which is part of the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA. “Incoming students persist in putting a premium on ...
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Report Calls for Renewed Focus on Raising College-Completion Rates
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
The letter, which takes the form of a report subtitled "College Completion Must Be Our Priority," summarizes a yearlong effort by the National Commission on Higher Education Attainment to identify innovative repairs for colleges' leaky pipelines.
