There has been considerable discussion and concern about how well the United States is ranked internationally on the proportion of our population that has a college degree. College degree attainment is seen as critical for our ability to compete globally and maintain a healthy economy. The National Center for Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) has estimated [...]
There has recently been a lot of activity to create new institutes, alliances, and proposals about the assessment of learning outcomes and accreditation. See
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/01/23/assess
and
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/01/28/accredit
Note that some of the same folks were involved in both the accreditation and the learning assessment efforts. And these are individuals and organizations that have long provided higher education leadership. [...]
As reported in Inside Higher Ed, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given funds to an effort to stimulate the potential development of linked databases that might someday allow us to track individual students through their education pathway even if they move from state to state. Currently, this is not only impossible but has [...]
On Jan. 29, Inside Higher Ed carried the following story:
Under the new GI Bill, which will cover tuition up to the rate for the most expensive public institution in the state, costlier private colleges can opt to enter into a matching program with the federal government to waive the balance. There may be fewer takers [...]
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Welcome to The Other 85 Percent. So what does "the other 85 percent" refer to? Research has shown that only about 15 percent of higher education students still fit the traditional definition of young adults age 18 to 22 who live on campus and go to school full time. more
