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Rayane Alamuddin on Future Trends Forum
- November 28, 2017
On Tuesday, November 28, Rayane Alamuddin and Robert Kelchen, professor of higher education at Seton Hall University and expert in higher education finance, will join Bryan Alexander for a Future Trends Forum on the recent Higher Ed Insights report. The online forum will run from 2:00 pm -3:00 pm. To receive a link to this free event, please register on the Future Trends Forum site. From Future Trends Forum: In…
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Will Devoting Funds to Excelsior Help Students?
- November 20, 2017
Free tuition at all public institutions in a state sounds great. Such a message could encourage students to attend college who would otherwise think it unaffordable, and/or could help students to stay in college. However, given the particular policies associated with New York’s Excelsior Scholarship, what the future holds for Excelsior Scholarship recipients may not be all positive. Due to these potential negative consequences, New York State’s funds for this…
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How Research Can Fuel Action to Address Food and Housing Insecurity on American College Campuses
- November 13, 2017
Editor’s note: We asked Sara Goldrick-Rab, a panelist for our Higher Ed Insights Survey, to contribute this blog post based on her open-ended comments on the 2017 survey. It’s been nearly a decade since my team first started studying food and housing insecurity among college students. To be honest, it wasn’t part of the plan. We were in the midst of a study on the impacts of a private financial…
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How Policymakers Can Help Institutions Support Financially Insecure Students
- November 13, 2017
Editor’s note: We asked Rachel Dykstra Boon, a panelist for our Higher Ed Insights Survey, to contribute this blog post based on her open-ended comments on the 2017 survey. Ask any teacher (pre-school through graduate school) for an example of a student with food, housing or financial struggles affecting the learning experience and heart-breaking stories will follow. Quantitative and qualitative research over the past several years has pointed to the growth…
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For-Profit Colleges – What Went Wrong?
- November 10, 2017
Mention the phrase “for-profit college” and I can’t help but immediately picture a single parent working two jobs while attending college at night, after the kids are asleep, saddled with debt and no prospects for improving their employment conditions or earnings despite their best efforts. Vivid in my mind are the painful stories of young low-income mothers I interviewed during my graduate studies, whose economic, family, and personal decisions (and…
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The Tax Status of Colleges: Who Cares?
- November 6, 2017
Across several survey items, the respondents to Ithaka S+R’s Higher Ed Insights Spring 2017 Survey rated Obama administration policies and enforcement actions against for-profit institutions as having a high and positive impact. In my view, policies such as the gainful employment rule and actions such as revoking the accreditation authority of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) for revoking Title IV eligibility for students attending ITT Tech…
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In New Survey, Higher Ed Insiders Share Concerns about Impact of Federal Policy Changes under President Trump
- October 31, 2017
In May and June of 2017, we surveyed the Ithaka S+R Higher Ed Insights panel—164 senior leaders and experts at colleges and universities, associations, research groups, and philanthropies—about the state of higher education and the likely impact of recent events and trends. (You can learn more about our Higher Ed Insights Project here.) Today, in “Higher Ed Insights: Results of the Spring 2017 Survey,” Rayane Alamuddin, Daniel Rossman, and I…
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Higher Ed Insights: Results of the Spring 2017 Survey
- October 31, 2017
In May and June of 2017, we surveyed the Ithaka S+R Higher Ed Insights panel—164 senior leaders and experts at colleges and universities, associations, research groups, and philanthropies—about the state of higher education and the likely impact of recent events and trends. While respondents were generally positive about the state of undergraduate education in the United States, they expressed urgency …
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Martin Kurzweil Speaks on Quality Assurance in U.S. Higher Education
At University of Pennsylvania School of Law
- November 9, 2017
On Thursday, November 9, Martin Kurzweil and Wendell Pritchett, Provost and Presidential Professor of Law and Education at the University of Pennsylvania, are speaking on "Quality Assurance in U.S. Higher Education: The Current Landscape and Principles for Reform." The talk will be held in the Bernard Segal Moot Court Room at Penn Law at noon. From the event website: The U.S. system of higher education continues to be vital to our country, but…
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Catharine Bond Hill Speaks at the CLIMB Initiative Kick-Off Conference
How to get more low-income students into selective colleges
- October 30, 2017
- Austin, Texas
On Monday, October 30, Catharine Bond Hill is speaking on "How to get more low-income students into selective colleges" at the CLIMB Initiative kick-off conference at the University of Texas at Austin. She will be joined on the panel by James Montoya (The College Board), Connie Betterton (The College Board), Susan Dynarski (University of Michigan), Richard Kahlenberg (The Century Foundation), and Logan Powell (Brown University). From the CLIMB website: The Collegiate Leaders in…