Top Education Department officials slam budget cuts in Republican debt ceiling proposal
[ad_1] Dive Brief: Top U.S. Department of Education officials on Tuesday continued to slam a Republican spending proposal spearheaded by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that would raise the federal debt ceiling but impose deep budget cuts on the agency. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, who has already publicly criticized the GOP debt ceiling plan, said in […]
More students are stopping out but fewer are reenrolling
[ad_1] Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Colleges and states are missing out on opportunities to reengage stopped-out students even as that population is growing, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The number of […]
Arkansas system board rejects deal to buy University of Phoenix
[ad_1] Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The University of Arkansas System’s governing board on Monday narrowly rejected a deal to acquire the University of Phoenix, a beleaguered for-profit institution that has shed hundreds of thousands of students in the last […]
College presidents are still overwhelmingly White men
[ad_1] Dive Brief: The share of women in college presidencies hasn’t budged much in years, with just over 3 in 10 seats currently held by women, according to the American Council on Education’s latest survey of chief executives released Friday. In 2022, roughly 33% of college presidents at all levels were women. That’s only about […]
Higher ed’s game of thrones: ACE plans to debut new Carnegie Classification methodology this year
[ad_1] It’s a tale as old as time, or at least as old as several decades for higher education: colleges hyperfocusing on climbing the tiers of the Carnegie Classifications, a frequently used system of categorizing like institutions that debuted in 1973. This dynamic is most frequently on display when colleges with doctoral programs try to […]
Education data breaches hit record high in 2021
[ad_1] Dive Brief: Since 2005, schools and colleges in the U.S. have incurred 2,691 data breaches, leading to leaks of at least 32 million individual records, according to an April report by Comparitech, a website that reviews and analyzes products improving cybersecurity and online privacy. To date, 2021 has marked the biggest year for data […]
Can colleges balance ChatGPT’s influence with ethics curriculum?
[ad_1] ChatGPT, one of the most well-known artificial intelligence chatbots, can now produce college-level pieces of writing with a few good prompts. Its essays have even passed tests at prestigious business and law schools. The program’s meteoric rise in the months since it launched has forced higher education to grapple with concerns over academic integrity […]
Trans, nonbinary state lawmakers criticize Education Department’s Title IX athletic proposal
[ad_1] Dive Brief: A coalition of 14 transgender and nonbinary state lawmakers from across the U.S. is urging the Biden administration to revise its recently announced regulatory plan that could, in some cases, cause trans athletes to be excluded from the sports teams of their choosing. In an open letter to President Joe Biden on […]
A Connecticut for-profit nursing college shut down abruptly. Now it’s facing two state investigations.
[ad_1] A long-troubled for-profit nursing college in Connecticut that shut down last month is now swept up in two state investigations, as regulators try to deduce if its abrupt closure infringed on consumer protection law. Stone Academy — which last month closed its three campuses in East Hartford, Waterbury and West Haven — faces twin […]
Transforming institutional effectiveness to drive student success and future proof your campus
[ad_1] Can your institution answer these questions about its effectiveness? How do our student support services influence students’ learning outcomes? Are we recruiting students who are the most likely to succeed at our institution? Which academic programs are most likely to prepare students for the future? How do our administrative and academic personnel costs align […]