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Monthly Stipends for Students in Need?
A California lawmaker wants to pay thousands of low-income students $500 monthly stipends to help them get by. The idea is modeled after universal basic income programs.
Report: Ripple Effects of the Pandemic on Student Retention
A new report from the education consulting firm EAB, released today, examines some of the ripple effects of the pandemic...
Evaluating Colleges by Economic Mobility Upends Rankings
A new report from Third Way, a public policy think tank, evaluates colleges by ranking them on an economic mobility...
Salesforce Survey Shows Workers Lack Advanced Digital Skills
A survey of 23,000 people across 19 countries revealed that 76 percent of global workers don’t feel ready to operate...
Professor Offers to Teach Banned Books to Tenn. Students
Following a school board’s ban of Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel Maus, Davidson College professor Scott Denham is offering...
When Education Programs Bite the Dust
Oklahoma City University is closing two of its education programs amid declining enrollment—and projected teacher shortages.
University Mistakenly Told Students They’d Won Scholarships
Central Michigan University is paying for mistakenly awarding 58 scholarships. The university said that when it was “testing a new...
A Sting Operation, a Sham University and a Settlement
The federal government agrees to undo adverse immigration actions taken against foreign nationals who enrolled in the fake University of Northern New Jersey, established as part of a sting operation.