Chegg stock continues slip on investor fears of AI disruption
[ad_1] Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Ed tech provider Chegg’s stock fell another 7% Thursday, following a 48% plummet Tuesday fueled by concerns over how artificial intelligence will affect the company’s offerings. Chegg shares initially declined after CEO Dan Rosensweig warned in […]
Alabama lawmakers throw lifeline to Birmingham-Southern through loan proposal
[ad_1] Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Alabama lawmakers advanced a bill Thursday that would create a loan program to provide aid to financially struggling colleges in the state, potentially throwing a lifeline to Birmingham-Southern College. The bill would establish the […]
Show me your budget, I’ll tell you your values
[ad_1] Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Miguel Cardona is the 12th U.S. secretary of education, currently serving under President Joe Biden. When I served as a teacher, school principal and district leader, I relied on every single dollar from local, state and […]
College students still struggling to stay enrolled, Gallup research finds
[ad_1] Dive Brief: More than 2 in 5 college students said they considered stopping out of their academic programs within a six-month period, according to a survey released Wednesday from the Lumina Foundation and Gallup. The organizations polled more than 6,000 students seeking a credential, as well as thousands of adults who either stopped out of […]
Higher ed can help more young adults get good jobs by age 30, report finds
[ad_1] Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: If all eligible workers entered a bachelor’s degree program by the age of 22, roughly 765,000 more young adults would hold good jobs by age 30, according to a new report from the Georgetown […]
Adtalem revenue grows 1.3% despite Walden University’s falling enrollment
[ad_1] Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Adtalem Global Education, a for-profit college operator, logged $369.1 million in revenue during fiscal 2023’s third quarter, reversing nearly a year of declines. The company’s third quarter revenue is 1.3% higher than for the […]
Almost 300 colleges still have open seats for fall 2023
[ad_1] Dive Brief: Nearly 300 U.S. and foreign colleges have told the National Association for College Admission Counseling that they have open seats for fall 2023. The figure comes from the admission organization’s annual Colleges Openings Update, published Tuesday, which also documents the availability of housing and financial aid for first-year and transfer students. The […]
Try these strategies to improve the student experience on campus
[ad_1] Listen to the article 7 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Scott Bass is a professor and executive director of the Center for University Excellence at American University, in Washington, D.C., where he served as provost from 2008 to 2018. He is the author of “Administratively Adrift: […]
AAUP accuses Collin College of ‘egregious’ academic freedom violations
[ad_1] Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Collin College committed “egregious violations” of academic freedoms when it dismissed three professors who publicly criticized the Texas institution, according to the American Association of University Professors. The faculty group accused Collin, a community […]
Private colleges’ tuition discount rates continue to hit record highs
[ad_1] Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The average tuition discount rate for full-time first year students attending private nonprofit colleges reached a record high of 56.2% in the 2022-23 academic year, the National Association of College and University Business Officers […]