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The New York Times

Inside the Blunders That Plunged the College Admission Season Into Disarray

Inside the Blunders That Plunged the College Admission Season Into ...

March 14, 2024

There were just days left to process a batch of federal financial aid applications when Education Department officials made a fateful discovery: 70,000 emails from students all over the country, containing reams of essential data. They were sitting in an inbox, untouched. That discovery last week started a panicked, three-day crash effort by more than 200 of the department’s employees, including Richard Cordray, the nation’s top student aid official, to read through each of the emails one by one and extract crucial identifying information required for financial aid. The students’ futures depended on it.
There were just days left to process a batch of federal financial aid applications when Education Department officials made a fateful discovery: 70,000 emails from students all over the country, containing reams of essential data. They were sitting in an inbox, untouched. That discovery last week started a panicked, three-day crash effort by more than 200 of the department’s employees, including Richard Cordray, the nation’s top student aid official, to read through each of the emails one by one and extract crucial identifying information required for financial aid. The students’ futures depended on it.

March 14, 2024

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

Abortion and Gun Laws Matter in College Choice, a New Study Finds

Abortion and Gun Laws Matter in College Choice, a New Study Finds

March 14, 2024

State laws on abortion and guns may affect students’ choice of where to go to college, a new poll suggests.
Eighty-one percent of current and prospective students said campus gun policies could influence their college decisions, according to the Lumina Foundation-Gallup 2023 State of Higher Education survey. Seven in 10 students said state laws on reproductive health could be a factor in their enrollment decisions, with 38 percent calling access to such care highly important — an increase from the previous year.
 
State laws on abortion and guns may affect students’ choice of where to go to college, a new poll suggests.
Eighty-one percent of current and prospective students said campus gun policies could influence their college decisions, according to the Lumina Foundation-Gallup 2023 State of Higher Education survey. Seven in 10 students said state laws on reproductive health could be a factor in their enrollment decisions, with 38 percent calling access to such care highly important — an increase from the previous year.
 

March 14, 2024

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

Are Colleges Really on the Brink? - Commentary

Are Colleges Really on the Brink? - Commentary

March 14, 2024

Robert Kelchen, professor and head of the department of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, writes:  It has now been 10 years since the late Harvard professor Clayton Christensen made his first famous public prediction that at least a quarter — if not half — of all colleges would close within the next 10 to 15 years. It has certainly been a rough decade for higher education, which has seen a sizable decline in enrollment and a global pandemic that I opined at that time would result in a spike in closures. But the industry has avoided a mass extinction event thanks to the resiliency (or stubbornness) of many small private colleges and well-timed support from the federal government.
Robert Kelchen, professor and head of the department of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, writes:  It has now been 10 years since the late Harvard professor Clayton Christensen made his first famous public prediction that at least a quarter — if not half — of all colleges would close within the next 10 to 15 years. It has certainly been a rough decade for higher education, which has seen a sizable decline in enrollment and a global pandemic that I opined at that time would result in a spike in closures. But the industry has avoided a mass extinction event thanks to the resiliency (or stubbornness) of many small private colleges and well-timed support from the federal government.

March 14, 2024

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Democrats Want to ‘Ban the Box’ Asking About School Disciplinary History on College Applications

Democrats Want to ‘Ban the Box’ Asking About School Disciplinary Hi...

March 13, 2024

Based on the recent trend of colleges and universities asking prospective students about their school disciplinary histories on their applications, a group of Democrats is supporting a “ban-the-box” bill to prohibit the practice during college admissions. The bill, HB 5339, is up for a second year after failing to pass in 2023. It would prohibit higher education institutions from asking for students’ school disciplinary history during the admissions process. In the bill, “school disciplinary history” refers to any record of a violation against a student in any secondary or postsecondary institution. The bill is currently before the Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee.
Based on the recent trend of colleges and universities asking prospective students about their school disciplinary histories on their applications, a group of Democrats is supporting a “ban-the-box” bill to prohibit the practice during college admissions. The bill, HB 5339, is up for a second year after failing to pass in 2023. It would prohibit higher education institutions from asking for students’ school disciplinary history during the admissions process. In the bill, “school disciplinary history” refers to any record of a violation against a student in any secondary or postsecondary institution. The bill is currently before the Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee.

March 13, 2024

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Inside Higher Ed

Doubts About Value Are Deterring College Enrollment

Doubts About Value Are Deterring College Enrollment

March 13, 2024

Enrollment has been declining in higher education for more than a decade, and the most common explanations in recent years have been lingering effects of the pandemic and a looming demographic cliff expected to shrink the number of traditional-age college students. But new research suggests that public doubts about the value of a college degree are a key contributor. The study—conducted by Edge Research, a marketing research firm, and HCM Strategists, a public policy and advocacy consulting firm with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—uses focus groups and parallel national surveys of current high school students and of adults who decided to leave college or who didn’t go at all to link the value proposition of a college degree and Americans’ behaviors after high school.
Enrollment has been declining in higher education for more than a decade, and the most common explanations in recent years have been lingering effects of the pandemic and a looming demographic cliff expected to shrink the number of traditional-age college students. But new research suggests that public doubts about the value of a college degree are a key contributor. The study—conducted by Edge Research, a marketing research firm, and HCM Strategists, a public policy and advocacy consulting firm with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—uses focus groups and parallel national surveys of current high school students and of adults who decided to leave college or who didn’t go at all to link the value proposition of a college degree and Americans’ behaviors after high school.

March 13, 2024

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