from
It cannot be the case that the primary or sole message to the economic victims of COVID-19 is re-enroll in a degree program, and borrow tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege of sitting in classrooms for years on end at an accredited, Title IV-eligible college or university.
Read
How can colleges and universities ensure that the last wave of Millennial college graduates doesn’t follow in the footsteps of the first wave, which graduated into the Great Recession?
Read
Although they kind of sound the same, there’s a big difference between holding down tuition increases and holding down tuition. Keeping already-unaffordable tuition flat for one year and declaring victory is positively Trumpian.
Read
In being far too precious about expansion, America’s top universities are failing at their missions and doing their country a disservice.
Read
Hiring in 2020 is analogous to browsing photos of People’s Sexiest Man (or Woman) Alive before going on match.com: nothing’s going to match up.
Read
It’s high time we sent a clear signal to community colleges: offer programs that lead directly to good jobs in growing sectors of the local economy.
Read
Hundreds of other colleges and universities require dramatic innovation in order to make sense for today’s students, particularly for first-generation and underrepresented minorities. Sadly, alumni nostalgia is keeping innovation at bay.
Read
As a defensive strategy to protect the degree bundle, upside down or certificate-first may only gain as much traction on college and university campuses as revolving restaurants.
Read
Colleges and universities stand little chance of making sense to students when they’re continuing to base their value proposition on sense, but are too blinded by their parochial interests to defend it.
Read
The arrival of the Third Age of online education (i.e., getting employers to pay for online degrees) may be the ultimate proof of declining perceived value. Third Age math only works when the operative outcome is employee retention. The shift in emphasis from self-pay to employer-pay has ushered in an era of fin de siècle online degrees.
Read