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Making your campus neurodivergent friendly<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— from timeshighereducation.com
\nHow to create a university where neurodivergent staff and students feel welcome and thrive in the classroom, in the lab and throughout campus<\/em><\/p>\n

Neurodivergent students and staff think about, interact with and see the world differently from their neurotypical peers and colleagues. Universities that adopt inclusive practices to welcome people with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia and other disabilities to campus also foster their distinct strengths and talents in the classroom, labs, boardrooms and social spaces. This collection of resources offers advice for teachers, researchers, PhD supervisors and administrators for supporting neurodiversity in higher education.<\/p>\n

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Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100,000 a Year. How Did This Happen?<\/strong><\/a> — from nytimes.com by Ron Lieber; via Ryan Craig
\nSome Vanderbilt students will have $100,000 in total expenses for the 2024-25 school year. The school doesn\u2019t really want to talk about it.<\/em><\/p>\n

It was only a matter of time before a college would have the nerve to quote its cost of attendance at nearly $100,000 a year. This spring, we\u2019re catching our first glimpse of it.<\/p>\n

One letter to a newly admitted Vanderbilt University engineering student showed an all-in price \u2014 room, board, personal expenses, a high-octane laptop \u2014 of $98,426. A student making three trips home to Los Angeles or London from the Nashville campus during the year could hit six figures.<\/p>\n

This eye-popping sum is an anomaly. Only a tiny fraction of college-going students will pay anything close to this anytime soon, and about 35 percent of Vanderbilt students \u2014 those who get neither need-based nor merit aid \u2014 pay the full list price.<\/p>\n

But a few dozen other colleges and universities that reject the vast majority of applicants will probably arrive at this threshold within a few years. Their willingness to cross it raises two questions for anyone shopping for college: How did this happen, and can it possibly be worth it?<\/p>\n

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\u2018Running Out of Road\u2019 for FAFSA Completion<\/strong><\/a> — from insidehighered.com by Liam Knox
\nThe number of students who filled out the federal aid form is down nearly 30\u00a0percent. The ramifications for access and enrollment could be devastating.<\/em><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s probably an optimistic estimate, said Bill DeBaun, NCAN\u2019s senior director of data and strategic initiatives; if the pace of completion doesn\u2019t pick up, the decline could be closer to 700,000 students. That could translate to up to a 4\u00a0percent drop in college-goers come fall, DeBaun said, which would be the largest enrollment drop since the COVID-19 pandemic\u2014and one that\u2019s likely to be made up primarily of low-income and first-generation students.<\/p>\n

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Study: Nearly 40 Percent of Students Started, Never Finished College<\/strong><\/a> — from insidehighered.com by Kathryn Palmer
\nFederal researchers followed the post-secondary outcomes of 23,000 students for 12 years.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Only 60 percent of students who enrolled in college earned a degree or credential within eight years of graduating high school.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one of the biggest takeaways from a\u00a0new\u00a0report\u00a0the National Center for Education Statistics released Monday that analyzed the enrollment, completion and financial aid outcomes of students.<\/p>\n

The researchers tracked the postsecondary educational outcomes of roughly 23,000 students beginning in 2009 when they were freshman in high school through 2021, when the cohort was eight years out from graduating high school.<\/p>\n

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Race to the Finish | The rise of faster bachelor’s degrees raises the question: What is college for?<\/strong><\/a> — from chronicle.com by Kelly Field; from Jeff Selingo<\/p>\n

Taken together, the two recent decisions illustrate a blurring of the lines between the two- and four-year sectors that is taking place not just in Idaho, but nationwide, as colleges struggle to overcome enrollment declines and skepticism about the value of a bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty clear that higher education is in a funk,\u201d said Robert M. Zemsky, a University of Pennsylvania professor, who has been advocating for three-year programs for more than 15 years. \u201cThere\u2019s a sense that we have to do something to make the product better, more relevant, and less costly to students.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Excerpt from Next<\/a><\/strong> — from\/by Jeff Selingo<\/p>\n

Bottom line:<\/strong> While critics of a shorter degree see it as a lesser replacement for the four-year baccalaureate degree, advocates see it as another option for students who might not be interested in college at a time when enrollment is falling.<\/p>\n