Education

[ad_1] New data from the Department of Education’s College Scorecard show that tech and STEM majors still vastly outpace liberal arts and humanities majors in terms of future earnings. The data, released April 27, compare the relative earnings of graduates of more than 36,000 different programs across institutional sectors, from community colleges to for-profit institutions. …

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[ad_1] I’ve long believed that student engagement is the necessary precursor to all learning.  Sure, you can get students to complete academic work via external motivators like grades or the more nebulous indefinite delayed benefit of climbing the successive rungs of the credentialing ladder, but these are not necessarily the best ways to get students learning. …

Structure, combined with freedom, is the route to student engagement. Read More »

[ad_1] Former president Donald Trump vowed to fire accreditors for failing to protect college students from colleges that are “dominated by Marxist maniacs and lunatics.” Trump made the remarks in a video he posted Tuesday. The former president, currently running for a second term, said he anticipated that new groups would emerge that would apply …

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[ad_1] Maine community colleges are experiencing an enrollment boost after launching a temporary free college program this past fall, designed to attract high school graduates affected by the pandemic. The University of Maine system, however, is simultaneously wrestling with enrollment losses. Some university system leaders and faculty members say the lure of free college—while positive—is …

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[ad_1] At his semiannual State of the University address in March, West Virginia University president E. Gordon Gee gave a blunt assessment to a crowd of faculty, administrators, students and staff: WVU is too big—and its student body shrinking too fast—to operate sustainably. With enrollment rates eroding and costs skyrocketing, the university had to shed …

West Virginia University to slash budget with enrollment falling Read More »

[ad_1] A student at the University of California, Davis, was stabbed to death last week—one of three victims of recent knife attacks in the area that have left the campus shaken, CNN reported. Officials implemented an overnight shelter-in-place order late Monday after the most recent stabbing, which police say occurred at “a known transient camp” …

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[ad_1] James Madison University’s Faculty Senate has now passed a series of resolutions criticizing Provost Heather Coltman, including one last month in which it “condemns the culture of intimidation emanating from the provost’s office.” That resolution said Coltman publicly demanded during a September Faculty Senate meeting, and in private, “the name(s) of the author(s) of …

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[ad_1] The Education Department is planning to tweak—but not end—a pilot program for prison higher education programs as it gears up to reinstate Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated students broadly. The department’s announcement means that education for incarcerated students won’t be disrupted when new regulations take effect this summer, officially giving those students access to …

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[ad_1] The New College of Florida has received a record influx of state funding this budget cycle, according to a report from The Sarasota Herald-Tribune. The investments were made in the months after Governor Ron DeSantis overhauled the college’s Board of Trustees, who then fired its president; scuttled the employment of faculty members; eliminated its …

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[ad_1] Howard University named Ben Vinson III, a self-described “living Diasporan” and a historian of African and Latin American diasporas, as the institution’s 18th president Tuesday. He will replace Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick, who has been president of Howard since 2014. Vinson started his academic career on the faculties of Barnard College and Penn State University …

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