The following is excerpted from “Make Way for Millennials! How Today's Students are Shaping Higher Education Space” by Persis C. Rickes, founder of the Massachusetts-based higher education consulting firm Rickes Associates. The full piece first appeared in Planning for Higher Education, the journal of the Society for College and University Planning at www.scup.org/phe.html.
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Since 1990, New England’s population has grown by just 9%, compared with 23% for the nation as a whole and more than 62% for the Mountain states.
New England’s slow population growth has scared off potential employers and threatened the region’s clout in the population-based U.S. House of Representatives.
Massachusetts is among eight states in the Northeast and Midwest th...
More than three-quarters of New England 9th-graders graduate from high school in the normal four years time, compared with 70% nationally.
Several foreign countries outperform the U.S. in the percentage of 25- to 34-year-olds with a high school credential.
Fig. 6: Public High School Graduates in New England, 2010 to 2022Click on the chart to view it full size in a new window.Source: New England...
Fewer than half of New England students who finish high school have completed the necessary courses and mastered the skills to be considered “college ready.” But New England states perform above the national norm on most indicators of college readiness.
In Massachusetts, a new “Vision Project” has five goals: increase the rate of high school graduates who attend college; ...
More than 928,000 students were enrolled at New England’s colleges and universities in 2008, up by more than 100,000 students over the decade.
Nearly half of New England college students attend private institutions, compared with just over one-quarter nationally.
Women students began to outnumber men on New England college and university campuses in 1978, and the imbalance has grown to a...
Only 19% of students at New England’s traditionally two-year community colleges graduate within three years of enrolling—and the rate is even lower among minority groups.
Nearly 60% of all higher education degrees awarded in New England are conferred on women.
More than one-quarter of doctorates awarded by New England universities go to foreign students, while fewer than two in 10 ...
New England claims many of the largest college endowments on earth, but even the titans have been beaten and bruised by the current deep recession.
New England has the dubious distinction of some of America’s smallest state appropriations and highest tuitions and fees for public colleges and universities. Education advocates joke about the region’s public campuses going from state-op...
New England universities performed more than $3.7 billion worth of research and development in 2008, but the region’s share has dropped to 7.3% of the U.S. total, down from more than 10% in the 1980s. Had the region’s share stayed at 10%, an additional $1.5 billion would have been spent in New England university labs in 2008 alone.
New England university research labs have been world-...
Every March on campuses across the country, students participate in a time-honored tradition: spring break. For the past 15 years, Bay Path College students have spent their spring break having a truly transformational experience through our “Capitals of the World” program. The students visit the major capitals of Europe, many for the first time, and see some of the most remarkable historic an...
Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Nellie Mae Education Foundation President Nick Donohue to discuss the foundation’s new direction. This new direction focuses on "student-centered" learning opportunities exploring different ways to engage students, different places students learn and different people students connect with to help them achieve skills and knowledge. Th...
The following is excerpted from “Make Way for Millennials! How Today's Students are Shaping Higher Education Space” by Persis C. Rickes, founder of the Massachusetts-based higher education consulting firm Rickes Associates. The full piece first appeared in Planning for Higher Education, the journal of the Society for College and University Planning at www.scup.org/phe.html.
The monikers are...