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Spring Enrollment Steady, but Not for All Institutions
Preliminary data from the National Student Clearinghouse show flat enrollment across all sectors of higher education. Enrollment rises at community colleges and in certificate programs, while bachelor's-degree-seeking students dip.
Iowa Wesleyan Will Close
Another small, private institution falls to financial pressures, which officials blame partly on the Iowa governor’s denial of their request for COVID-19 relief funds.
‘It’s Our Responsibility’
A group of researchers, college leaders, business leaders and policy makers is calling on peers in higher ed to focus on Black student enrollment.
After a Decade of Growth, Degree Earners Decline
The number of undergraduate degree earners fell last year for the first time since 2012. Is it a bump in the road or a harbinger of a changing higher ed landscape?
Still Hoping for Free Community College
Free community college is back in President Biden’s budget. Although Congress is unlikely to support the full $90 billion, experts hope for a smaller budget item to provide free programs for about 90,000 students a year.
Putting the Heat on Campus Leaders About the Cold
City College of San Francisco students, faculty and staff members are fed up with cold classrooms. Trustees called on administrators to address long-neglected maintenance issues and aging heating systems after some campus buildings went months without heat.
How a Canadian Billionaire Reshaped the King’s College
An entrepreneur’s for-profit education company promised to save an evangelical liberal arts college with online enrollments. Now critics are blaming it for pushing the college to the brink of closure.
Opinion
How to Recover From Pandemic Learning Loss
To address pandemic learning loss, schools and colleges must fundamentally rethink education, shifting to experiential, interactive learning, G. Gabrielle Starr writes.