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Education Dept. Hastens to Survey Students About Credit Transfers

Chronicle of Higher Education
July 17, 2008

The department has filed an "emergency" request with the White House's Office of Management and Budget to survey Pell Grant recipients who have transferred from one institution to another.  The survey intends to identify any problems that Pell recipients may face when they try to transfer credits and courses between institutions.  The department normally must go through a process of public comment before spending federal money on such a survey. There isn't time in this case, however, the department said in its request.

The Declining Value of Your College Degree

Wall Street Journal - Column
July 17, 2008

To be sure, the average American with a college diploma still earns about 75% more than a worker with a high-school diploma and is less likely to be unemployed. Yet while that so-called college premium is up from 40% in 1979, it is little changed from 2001, according to data compiled by Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal Washington think tank.

Does new S.A.T. help with admissions decisions?

Christian Science Monitor
July 17, 2008

For the past three years, when high school students have hit the SAT prep books, that's included a tuneup for a writing section.  For colleges trying to predict student performance, the new test has been: (a) helpful, (b) not helpful, (c) both of the above, or d) don't know.  So far, many colleges are answering "d."  The College Board, which administers the SAT, is offering another answer this summer in a much-anticipated study.

Affordability Tops Priorities As College Costs Rise

Charleston, W.Va., State Journal - Opinion Piece
July 17, 2008

No one wants to return to the pre-World War II days, when a college degree was an option only for an elite few; despite troubled markets and a tightening of lending standards, that's unlikely to happen. What is more likely is that too many students will stop at a two-year degree, limit their college search to public institutions and restrict their studies to career fields that pay well enough to enable them to repay high student loans.

Preserving the Right to Deny

Inside Higher Ed
July 16, 2008

Expanding protections for disabled students is fine with higher education officials, so long as accommodating those students doesn't erode academic standards, according to testimony given to a U.S. Senate committee Tuesday. But, as the hearing revealed, some are concerned that "standards" could be defined to exclude the very students federal laws are designed to help.

Report: US behind in doubling science grads

Associated Press
July 16, 2008

A high-profile push by business groups to double the number of U.S. bachelor's degrees awarded in science, math and engineering by 2015 is falling way behind target, a new report says.

Sizing Up the Spellings Commission

Inside Higher Ed
July 15, 2008

The National Association of College and University Business Officers is publishing a report today that dispassionately presents and balances the often conflicting viewpoints of participants in the commission's work and aftermath - Education Department officials who pushed the panel's agenda, higher education association officials who frequently fought it, and others from within academe who bemoaned the often defensive response from college leaders - and lets their words do most of the talking.

As Economy Slumps, Donations to Colleges Expected to Slow

Chronicle of Higher Education
July 15, 2008

According to the Council for Advancement and Support of Education's Fundraising Index, philanthropic support for colleges and independent schools is estimated to grow 5.3 percent for the academic year that began July 1, down from the 7-percent average annual rate of growth for the last 20 years.  For the year ending June 30, the council's index estimates that educational institutions will have a 7.2-percent increase in giving from the year before.

Cheating on ACT, SAT college entrance exams has few consequences

Los Angeles Times
July 14, 2008

Each year, millions of stressed-out students take the two tests, hoping a good score will secure them a spot at the nation's top colleges.  But most students know little of what occurs when a score is in dispute. And the policies of the two nonprofit test companies seem to satisfy no one. Some complain that scores are arbitrarily canceled without evidence, while others criticize the companies for giving a free pass to cheaters.

Government as the Big Lender

New York Times
July 14, 2008

The desperate worry over the health of huge financial institutions with country cousin names - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - reflects a reality that has reshaped major spheres of American life: the government has in recent months taken on an increasingly dominant role in assuring that Americans can buy a home or attend college.
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