Earlier this week, New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu signed an executive order establishing the Public Higher Education Taskforce. If the state of higher education concerns…
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If you follow higher education news, you know that colleges and universities all over the United States are closing or warning of impending closures. This…
The US Senate is considering increasing the Department of Education appropriation to increase the maximum Pell Grant by $250. On the surface, $250 doesn’t sound…
Americans’ confidence in higher education is waning, according to the latest Gallup Poll on the subject. The June poll shows that fewer Americans have “a…
Washington has gone all out on whipping up bad news for higher education. I’m not talking about the Supreme Court ruling that gutted Affirmative Action,…
Last month, the consulting firm Deloitte published an interesting series on trends in higher education. One trend they cited was the transformation of the business…
Yesterday, the Postsecondary Value Commission – part of the Institute for Higher Education Policy – issued its updated report on the value of higher education.…
I read an opinion piece a while back regarding mergers among higher education institutions. The author’s point was that schools that really needed to merge…
US News and World Report published an interesting article today regarding red flags among higher education institutions’ financial conditions. The two specific areas of concern…
Here’s another reason to prefer degree programs over short-term training. Researchers from Princeton University who study mortality say that Americans who have earned a bachelor’s…