The Other 85 Percent

As Inside Higher Ed reports, there has been yet another gathering of higher education leaders talking about how higher education needs to change.  This time they talked about the need to serve diverse and non-traditional students, borrowing ideas from the for-profit colleges and creating flexibility for students.  All sound good until you hear that one [...]

I spend a lot of time with colleagues from traditional, face-to-face colleges and universities and often hear them dismiss schools that have been reported to have very low completion rates.  It is obvious that these folks, despite working in higher education, do not understand the national problem we have with data on completion rates.  And, [...]