Some items from Bryan Alexander:
- Future Trends Forum
- Today, the new Future Trends Forum, with Richard DeMillo
- Warpping up Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education
[Mini Feature] Doing more with less: Scaling higher ed — from evoLLLution.com
Excerpt:
Today’s students expect their entire experience with an institution to mirror what they see from major online retailers and service providers; personalized, supportive and flexible. However, institutions are having to deliver on these heightened expectations with smaller budgets and less capacity to increase prices than ever before.
Scaling is absolutely critical for higher education institutions in today’s marketplace. Through scaling, institutions can “do more with less”—they can meet the sky-high expectations of today’s discerning students while keeping their costs and prices low.
This Feature highlights some of the approaches today’s institutions are taking to achieving scale.
A new vision for paying for higher education — from usnews.com by Lauren Camera
How do you build the federal student loan system from the ground up?
Excerpt:
As it stands now, the current system for financing higher education is particularly unfair for poor students, many of whom are forced to borrow more money than their wealthier peers, graduate at a much lower rate and go into default at a much higher rate.
To be sure, the average six-year graduation rate for students seeking a bachelor’s degree is 59.4 percent, but a recent survey of more than 1,000 public and private four-year colleges found that only 51 percent of Pell recipients graduate. And at community colleges, only 23 percent of first-time, full-time students ever receive a degree.
Is it time for colleges to withdraw from their outdated schedules? — from pri.org by Caroline Lester
Excerpt:
We asked a few college grads what they’d like to change about the current system. Their answers spanned from increasing accessibility, to eliminating lectures, to creating greater support services for students at risk of dropping out.
That last point is key: the vast majority of students who start college don’t graduate.
Community college, state schools, and private universities — six-year completion rates are falling. To Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University, this means something is wrong.
Crow believes that the best way to address America’s higher education woes is to lower the cost of a college education while personalizing teaching. He proposes three big changes…
Credentialing, free tuition top this week’s news — from ecampusnews.com by Laura Devaney
Some items from Jeff Selingo:
A brief excerpt from newsletter from one of Michigan’s Senators, Debbie Stabenow:
62 percent of students in Michigan graduate #InTheRed with student loan debt. A student who graduated from a 4-year Michigan college or university in 2014 owes on average almost $30,000 in loans, making Michigan 9th in the country on average student loan debt. Student loan debt in the United States is over $1.3 trillion and is the 2nd highest form of consumer debt.
…and back from March 2015:
