Inside Higher Ed. Time after time, the fiscal struggles of small private colleges are bursting into headlines. Institutions from the College of New Rochelle in New York to Mills College in California have decided to lay off faculty members this year in the face of steep budget challenges. Others have […]
Santa Cruz Sentinel. Documentarian and San Jose State sociology professor Bob Gliner worries that career and skills training programs could become a casualty of an era focused on standardized test results. In his latest one-hour production, “Job Centered Learning,” Gliner, of Boulder Creek, focuses on a nationwide struggle he refers […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education. Explore the five sortable tables below to discover how the states and the District of Columbia compare in terms of their demographic challenges, the educational level of their residents, faculty pay, college enrollment, tuition costs, and much more. For an overview of higher education in […]
Inside Higher Ed. When the Department of Education gathered comments this summer ahead of an overhaul of its gainful-employment rule, it heard a litany of familiar refrains from representatives of the for-profit college sector. They argued that the rule, which holds career programs accountable for graduating students with debt they […]
The Signal. Throughout the country there has been a push toward Career Technical Education (CTE), programs and pathways that provide students with the academic and technical skills they need to succeed in future careers. According to the U.S. Department of Education, California served 772,350 CTE high school students and 892,396 […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education. Purdue University, as expected, won state approval on Thursday for its deal to take over Kaplan University. But as the transaction now moves to the U.S. Department of Education for review of a “change of control” request, a critic of the deal is urging the […]