What if schools in the U.S. treated their innovation and emerging technologies with as much glamour as they give to athletics? At the New England Board of Higher Education’s recent… Read more »
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Learner-Centered Institutions: The Future of Higher Education
Oct. 26, 2015 Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Today’s learners grew up with the Internet, with on-demand and instant results delivered to a hand-held device. They increasingly judge colleges by… Read more »
Reducing Math Obstacles to Higher Education
The last few months have brought changes in the leadership of public education in Massachusetts. The new secretary of education and chair of the Board of Higher Education both have… Read more »
Counterbalancing Student Debt with “Asset Empowerment” and Economic Mobility
Education provides one of the best opportunities for American children to build the capacity to climb up the economic ladder. It has even been called the “great equalizer” in American… Read more »
“America Competes” Reauthorization Gets Competitive; Sanders Calls for Free Tuition
DC Shuttle … America Competes Act Passes House. The House passed the America Completes Reauthorization Act of 2015 in a 217-205 vote. The legislation is a renewal of a bipartisan… Read more »
A Strategy for the Land of Steady Habits
State Capital Notes … If current education patterns continue, Connecticut will produce 23,000 fewer graduates due to a projected decline in high school graduates over the next decade and beyond,… Read more »
New Way to Break Down Barriers to Higher Education: Build “Financial Capabilities”
Community colleges have traditionally responded to the financial needs of their students by removing or minimizing financial barriers to attending. Efforts to make community college tuition free fit with this… Read more »
On Affordability: Public Higher Education in New England
As the lowest-priced higher education institutions serving the greatest share of students in New England, public institutions are a crucial access point for the region’s students who may not have… Read more »
Obama Budget Holds Key Education Provisions; On Hill, Lawmakers Still Debating How to Leave No Child Behind
DC Shuttle … Education Priorities in President Obama’s Budget. President Obama released his fiscal year 2016 budget request. Among his requests were many provisions for education. For higher education, the… Read more »
New Directions for Higher Education: Q&A with Deborah Floyd on Community Colleges Offering Bachelor’s Degrees
In this installment of NEJHE‘s New Directions for Higher Education series, Philip DiSalvio, dean of the College of Advancing & Professional Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, interviews Deborah… Read more »