International
Group Unveils a ‘Model Policy’ for Handling Student Data | An ad hoc group of academics, tech-company executives, and policy makers convened earlier this summer to identify the ethical norms colleges should use in handling the reams of data they’re increasingly accumulating about their students’ lives in and outside the classroom.
Admission Crisis: Don Advocates Establishment Of University Colleges | A management consultant and University don, Professor David Iornem has advocated for the establishment of university colleges to cater for admission crisis being suffered by qualified Nigerian students.
College fees of €5,000 ‘could help funds crisis’ | A university president called for fees of up to €5,000 a year, linked to a student loan system, to help solve the crisis in third-level funding.
What Clicks From 70,000 Courses Reveal About Student Learning | [S]tudents who frequently check their grades throughout the semester tend to get better marks than do those who look less often. [Subscription required]
Parliament should solve fees crisis – IFP | Cape Town – Parliament, not President Jacob Zuma’s fees commission, should solve the growing university fees crisis in the country, the IFP said on Thursday.
Only state can provide core funding for higher education: DA | Although the private sector can assist in a limited capacity‚ only the state can provide core funding for quality higher education.
U.S. National
Survey Finds Fewer Students Enrolling in College History Courses | In light of the recent downward trend in the number of history majors (see the March and May 2016 issues of Perspectives on History), and anecdotal reports from some department chairs that overall undergraduate enrollment in history courses has been falling, the AHA conducted an online survey to gauge trends in student enrollment in college history courses.
Why Making College Free Isn’t Enough for First-Generation Students | [T]he financial burden of higher education is hardly the only barrier that first-generation students face when it comes to earning the college degrees so many see as a path to prosperity. In addition to financial challenges, first-generation students are navigating a system that is new to them, that taxes them experientially, psychologically, and emotionally.
Report: Free College Proposal a Threat to Private Colleges, Diversity | Even though enrollment at public colleges would increase substantially under Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s free college proposal, enrollment at private colleges would likely take a dive—and diversity at the top public institutions and many private institutions would suffer as a result, according to a Georgetown University analysis of the proposal released Tuesday.
What’s Up With Impact Investing and Higher Education? | Impact investing is red-hot right now, especially in the education space. But while this approach has long fueled the development of new education technology tools, impact investing is being applied to other ed challenges, too.
U.S. States
OPINION: From pre-K to college, we need to invest | Education is the great equalizer, the portal of opportunity to the American Dream for generations of New Jerseyans.
State lawmakers propose in-depth study of State System of Higher Education | In his assessment of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, state Sen. Vincent Hughes, D-7, said the system is asked to do more for students with less money from the Commonwealth and growing pressure not to increase tuition.
Gov. Wolf kickstarts fresh conversation about college affordability | Gov. Tom Wolf on Tuesday restarted a conversation that has taken place several times over in recent decades about the need to make college education in Pennsylvania affordable and relevant.
Legislators offer bills to make college more affordable | State legislators are proposing several bills designed to make college more affordable and reduce debt for New Jersey students.
Institutional
VP of Institutional Effectiveness Retires After 28 Years at JCC | After 28 years of teaching and leading reaffirmation at Johnston Community College, Dale O’Neill has retired.
Labor Day Lockout | For professors at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus, Labor Day weekend was anything but a celebration. On Saturday, all 400 members of the faculty union were told that their services were no longer required and that their positions, their health insurance and their campus email accounts were being cut off. Classes for the semester start Wednesday.
Georgetown University to Atone for Slavery Ties | Along with many of the nation’s earliest colleges and universities, Georgetown University’s origins are inextricably entwined with slavery. Georgetown officials announced a series of new steps the university will take to atone for its past on Thursday.
Enrollment Numbers Early Sign of Success for Colleges | Early enrollment numbers emerging on college campuses around the nation suggest the 2016-17 school year is helping institutions make headway on achieving many new goals that are products of efforts to weather damages from the prolonged national economic slump that began in 2008 paralleled by public policymakers’ retreat on supporting public higher education.
‘Safe’ Is in the Brain of the Beholder | One of the most profound challenges that all of us who work on campuses in service to students’ learning and growth routinely face is to see the world through their eyes, not ours. I have come to believe that at the heart of the conversation and controversy provoked by Dean Ellison’s letter is the difficulty we have in shifting our perspective.
Updated: 20:53pm.