It was disgruntled students that coined this phrase on my last campus. The “Bounce” was costing them precious time spent chasing signatures and removing often-unnecessary registration “holds” when they wanted…
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More Light on Accreditation
DC Shuttle … Education Department Announces New Rules for Accreditors. The U.S. Education Department announced “a series of executive actions to improve accreditors’ and the department’s oversight activities and move… Read more »
Autumn Almanac
NEBHE’s annual fall meetings explored the federal Higher Education Act and aligning state policy with higher ed … The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) held its annual fall… Read more »
New England Lawmakers Close the Books on 2015
State Capital Notes … With the 2016 presidential campaign dominating the airwaves and reauthorization of the landmark federal Higher Education Act looming, one could be excused for focusing on Washington,… Read more »
ESEA Promoted
DC Shuttle … ESEA Passes House, Continues to be Considered in Senate. The House passed the Student Success Act (H.R. 5), the rewrite of No Child Left Behind, by a… Read more »
To Knock Down Barriers for Returning Adult Learners, RI Tries Something New
In a historic unanimous vote on May 20, 2015, the Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary Education welcomed College Unbound as a degree-granting postsecondary option in the state, designed to serve… Read more »
What Philanthropy’s Paradigm Shift Means for Higher Ed Fundraising
This is an unprecedented era of human history, in which simultaneous transformations of every technically advanced field are being driven by the powerful technological revolution in information and communications. Technically,… Read more »
The Death of Teaching … and Birth of Learning
Forget disruption. This is the age of chaos in higher education. First MOOCs. Now Sweet Briar. Seemingly every day brings a new moment where we must confront the reality that… 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 »
Divesting from Fossil Fuels Makes Sense Morally … and Financially
Should university endowments divest from fossil fuels? A public discussion of this question has seen some university presidents issuing statements that they would not divest—that investments should not be used… Read more »