Filter & Sort
Why Students Aren't Filling Out the FAFSA
Low-income and first-generation students find it difficult to fill it out, and they fill it out themselves, EAB survey finds.
Deliberate Practice and Teaching
How do we make students more active in their learning? In today's Academic Minute, part of Penn State University Week...
Navigating Grief and Memorials
Leaders have careful choices to make when faculty and staff members pass away.
Prospective Students Are Open to Vaccine Requirements
Survey finds that they want requirements -- and so do their parents -- despite actions in Florida, Texas and Utah that might make them impossible.
App’s Private Aid Algorithm Promises Fast Cash
Start-up uses an algorithm developed by Sara Goldrick-Rab to approve student emergency aid applications quickly. Experts say the outsourcing can work, if known pitfalls can be avoided.
Transfer Enrollment Drops
Far fewer students are transferring to community colleges this spring compared to the same time last year, a trend that mirrors overall enrollment declines in the two-year sector.
A Big Budget From Biden
President’s proposed budget increases funding for Pell Grants, minority-serving institutions, research and more. But higher education organizations and experts say there are a few other things they would have liked to see.
Opinion
What Admissions Decisions Really Mean
Patrick O’Connor offers three important things for students to remember about why colleges reject applicants.