Biden’s proposed $90B Education Department budget features tuition-free community college
[ad_1] President Joe Biden laid out his budget blueprint for fiscal 2024 on Thursday, a plan that would infuse the U.S. Department of Education with $90 billion in discretionary spending and fund tuition-free community college nationwide, one of his central campaign pledges. While the budget proposal has virtually no chance of passing Congress as drafted, […]
Loan servicers charged late fees, interest after on-time payments, CFPB finds
[ad_1] Listen to the article 1 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Some student loan providers charged borrowers late fees and interest despite payments being made on time, according to a new report on junk fees from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The agency found that […]
Bard College the latest institution to spurn U.S. News undergraduate rankings
[ad_1] Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Bard College on Thursday became the latest institution to announce it would end cooperation with U.S. News & World Report’s undergraduate rankings, saying they are “based on flawed and irrelevant metrics.” Leon Botstein, president […]
Legislators urge Education Department to expand race, legacy data in admissions
[ad_1] Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A coalition of 18 federal legislators is urging the U.S. Department of Education to broaden its collection of college admissions data and publicly disaggregate the information by gender, race and ethnicity. In a Tuesday […]
Upward transfer enrollment plummeted 14.5% since pandemic began
[ad_1] Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Upward transfer enrollments — students moving from two-year to four-year colleges — has plunged 14.5%, or 78,500 fewer students, since the onset of the pandemic, according to new National Student Clearinghouse Research Center data […]
More than half of jobs don’t need 4-year degree requirements, report says
[ad_1] Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: More than 60% of middle-skill jobs are “soft bachelor’s” jobs — jobs with descriptions that require a four-year degree despite a degree not being a good evaluation for the skills required, according to a […]