Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Trustees at Eastern Gateway Community College voted last week to withdraw the financially distressed Ohio college from the accreditation process, signaling its likely closure. Eastern Gateway does not have the funding or capacity to continue…
Listen to the article 7 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dawn Coder is the senior director of online student success at Penn State World Campus. I remember the first time an academic adviser on my staff told me that a student’s parent showed up during an advising…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a law on Tuesday that will ban public colleges from funding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, continuing a nationwide push by conservatives to remove such programs from higher education. The…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Less than half (47%) of public schools rated themselves as doing a “very good” or “excellent” job preparing students for college, according to a nationally representative survey released by the National Center for Education Statistics…
Listen to the article 12 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Just five years ago, Hampshire College seemed destined for a very different fate. The 54-year-old private liberal arts college in western Massachusetts teetered on the brink of closure due to financial constraints. It even opted not to…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. A shorter and online version of the SAT college admission exam debuted Saturday, and the College Board — the company behind the test — has already declared the switch from the longer, paper version a success. More than…
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The perceived value of a college degree is declining among adults without one, while their view of licenses and certificates’ value has gone up, according to new research commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Released…
Dive Brief: Northland College, a private nonprofit institution in Wisconsin, is attempting to raise $12 million by early April to stay open beyond this academic year, it announced Monday. The environmentally focused liberal arts college is staring down insufficient resources and will be forced to close after the spring term if it doesn’t secure the…
Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Education would receive $82 billion in discretionary funding under President Joe Biden’s budget proposal for fiscal 2025, a 3.9% increase from fiscal 2023. The plan, released Monday, would also establish a…
Dive Brief: Clarkson University plans to transfer 16 graduate-level teaching programs to Siena College, pending approval by the New York State Education Department, the two private nonprofit institutions announced this week. Officials said they expect the move to be completed in June. About 100 students are currently enrolled in the affected master’s and certificate programs,…