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Quality and Noncollege Learning
Education Department announces eight winning partnerships in experiment to open federal aid to alternative providers, with a possibly influential new way of assuring academic quality.
New Programs: Entrepreneurship, Homeland Security, Shakespeare, Information Management, Sports Management
Kennesaw State University is starting an undergraduate major in entrepreneurship. Monroe Community College, of the State University of New York...
Prioritization Anxiety
How can a process more and more administrations are embracing be supported by professors? Or are they right that the process is really about eliminating programs that aren't seen as rainmakers?
Spending Your Tax Dollars
New research on public master's universities finds that they are generally efficient, but economies of scale favor undergraduate over graduate education.
Earlier FAFSA Popular, but Problematic, Too
The federal financial aid application now allows students to use existing federal tax data, designed to inform families earlier about their available aid. But student advocates say colleges may undercut progress by moving up their own deadlines for students.
New Programs: Business, Exercise Science, Communication
Mesa College, of the San Diego Community College District, is starting an associate degree in business for students who plan...
Opinion
What's Missing in the Student Debt Debate
Unfortunately, the news media and other observers often overlook the fact that student debt is a problem with a color and class element, writes Mark Huelsman.
Risks of Risk Sharing
As bipartisan consensus emerges in Congress that colleges should share the burden of students who can't repay loans or find jobs, higher ed leaders consider how such a plan would work and whether it would discourage them from educating the disadvantaged.