About a year ago, I attended a meeting at the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) focused on reducing the cost of learning materials for college students in our…
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The Human Dimensions of Enrollment Management
I want to discuss the human dimensions of what I have too often treated (thinking with my instincts as a theoretical physicist) as a scientific methods problem. Experience has taught… Read more »
New England Public Policy Center Reports on College Towns and COVID-19: The Impact on New England
New England higher education institutions that are already are on shaky financial ground could be forced to close altogether due to extended campus shutdowns and pandemic-induced enrollment declines, according to… Read more »
“What Have You Done for Me Lately?” Looting, Love and Lifelong Learning
Higher education is a body that intends to be greater than the sum of its parts. The guiding principle is that college is a primary route to becoming an enlightened… Read more »
Supreme Court Maintains DACA
DC Shuttle … Supreme Court Maintains DACA Protections for Immigrants, Students. The U.S. Supreme Court decided, 5 to 4, that the Trump administration cannot end the Deferred Action for Childhood… Read more »
Is This the End of Higher Education? A Historian’s Perspective
Discussions of the problematic future of higher education were already an exploding industry before COVID-19, producing more to be read than anyone could possibly keep up with. Their main audience… Read more »
The Impact of COVID-19 on State Revenues in New England
New England’s state budgets are reeling from coronavirus-related shutdowns and fears. Here’s an early look … Connecticut. Gov. Ned Lamont and state lawmakers are facing a $904 million deficit for… Read more »
Practitioner Perspectives: Corcoran on NOLO—No-Cost & Low-Cost Course Designators
The rising cost of college textbooks has been well-documented over the past few years. Reports indicate that textbook prices have risen by over 800%—three times the inflation rate over the…
Will the Scarring Show? Graduating in the Time of COVID-19
2020 will forever be remembered as the year of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. This year, the term “social distancing” became part of our vocabulary, and virtual… Read more »
How To Bring Back Higher Education This Fall: A Guide for 2020 Reopeners
Whether and how campuses will reopen in fall 2020 has emerged as the key story in higher education. On Wednesday, Trump administration officials spoke via teleconference with higher education leaders…