Listen to the article 9 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. As the stress of this year’s college application process seems never-ending, high schools have ramped up communications to high school seniors and their parents, offered extra supports to navigate the college admission process, and tried to defuse…
Sirena Hargrove-Leak, Professor of Engineering at Elon University, understands firsthand the obstacles students can encounter in pursuing their education. Raised in rural North Carolina, she attended a high school with no honors or advanced classes, but gained confidence in her abilities with the critical encouragement of high school and college mentors. Now, as a professor…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: An increase in state appropriations can bolster graduation rates at public four-year colleges, especially among Black and Latinx students, concludes a peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Education Finance. A 10% increase in state appropriations…
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in higher education has skyrocketed in the last year, but what does research tell us about how students are responding to technology? VitalSource’s team of learning scientists recently conducted the largest empirical evaluation of AI-generated questions known to date, using data collected from nearly one million unique questions,…
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Eastern Gateway Community College will suspend enrollment for all students after the spring semester amid ongoing financial distress. In a Wednesday meeting, trustees for the beleaguered Ohio institution unanimously voted to pause enrollment for new…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed legislation Tuesday that directs the state’s public university network to create a guaranteed admissions system. State high school students who rank within the top 10% of their class would be…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Nearly half of students who left community college without earning a degree or credential cited work as a major reason why they’re no longer enrolled, according to recent survey data from New America, a left-leaning…
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Just one-third of students who started at community colleges transferred to four-year institutions, and fewer than half of those students earned a bachelor’s degree in six years, new research from a trio of organizations found. That translated…
Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Scott Pulsipher is the president of Western Governors University, a nonprofit online institution headquartered in Salt Lake City. A majority of college students, around 70%, are now enrolled in at least one online course, signaling a promising…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Jamestown Business College, in New York, announced this week it has stopped enrolling new students and plans to close. The small for-profit, founded in 1886, intends to remain open long enough for its current students…