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Tuition continues to rise, but while large increases in federal grant aid and tax benefits cushioned the impact of rising tuition prices from 2008-09 to 2010-11, total grant aid for students did not increase in 2011-12. College Board Press Release
Universities will not survive the next 10 to 15 years unless they radically overhaul their current business models, according to a challenging report released this week. The report claims that the current university model – a broad-based teaching and research institution with a large base of assets and back office – will prove unviable in […]
The latest model-busting higher education program comes from a novel partnership between a nonprofit college and a nonprofit organization, helped by a push (and some money) from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
Princeton and Stanford can rest easy now that Minnesota higher-education officials have backed off threats to track down dozens of universities like them for offering free online courses in their state without permission. Wired Campus Full Article
It’s the latest snapshotof the growing burden of student debt and it’s another discouraging one: Two-thirds of the national collegeclass of 2011 finished school with loan debt, and those who borrowed walked off the graduation stage owing on average $26,600 — up about 5 percent from the class before. eCampus News Full Article
Tanner Lecturer and respondents tackle the challenges of preserving the best of higher education while venturing onto new ground. Stanford University Press Release
A growing number of nonprofit colleges have become big fish in online education and are targeting a working-adult-student market long-dominated by for-profit institutions. As the competition heats up, better-informed consumers will increasingly seek out online programs based on price and brand strength. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
Professors are using more technology in the classroom than they were two years ago, and their students have a message for them: Keep it coming. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
This First Look presents preliminary findings from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) spring 2012 data collection, which included four survey components: Enrollment for fall 2011; Graduation Rates within 150 percent of normal program completion time for full-time, first-time degree/ certificate-seeking undergraduate students beginning college in 2005 at 4-year institutions or in 2008 at […]
Stanford medical faculty member Kristin Sainani launches an online science-writing class. Kristin Sainani is teaching her ‘Writing in the Sciences’ course online for the first time this fall. Here’s a really bad sentence: “This paper provides a review of the basic tenets of cancer biology study design, using as examples studies that illustrate the methodologic […]