Try these strategies to improve the student experience on campus
[ad_1] Listen to the article 7 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Scott Bass is a professor and executive director of the Center for University Excellence at American University, in Washington, D.C., where he served as provost from 2008 to 2018. He is the author of “Administratively Adrift: […]
AAUP accuses Collin College of ‘egregious’ academic freedom violations
[ad_1] Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Collin College committed “egregious violations” of academic freedoms when it dismissed three professors who publicly criticized the Texas institution, according to the American Association of University Professors. The faculty group accused Collin, a community […]
Private colleges’ tuition discount rates continue to hit record highs
[ad_1] Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The average tuition discount rate for full-time first year students attending private nonprofit colleges reached a record high of 56.2% in the 2022-23 academic year, the National Association of College and University Business Officers […]
Top Education Department officials slam budget cuts in Republican debt ceiling proposal
[ad_1] Dive Brief: Top U.S. Department of Education officials on Tuesday continued to slam a Republican spending proposal spearheaded by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that would raise the federal debt ceiling but impose deep budget cuts on the agency. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, who has already publicly criticized the GOP debt ceiling plan, said in […]
More students are stopping out but fewer are reenrolling
[ad_1] Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Colleges and states are missing out on opportunities to reengage stopped-out students even as that population is growing, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The number of […]
Arkansas system board rejects deal to buy University of Phoenix
[ad_1] Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The University of Arkansas System’s governing board on Monday narrowly rejected a deal to acquire the University of Phoenix, a beleaguered for-profit institution that has shed hundreds of thousands of students in the last […]