College completion rate rises nationally after last year

FeaturedMarch 4, 2022

Image: The national six-year completion rate for students who started college in 2015 reached 62.2 percent, according to a new report out today from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. That’s an increase of 1.2 percentage points over…

LEAP from the Era of Accountability to the…

FeaturedMarch 4, 2022

By: Dr. Chip Pettit and Dr. Eric J Ban In 2001, the passage of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act officially marked the beginning of the accountability era in American education. Among its other…

How colleges are using MacKenzie Scott’s money

FeaturedMarch 2, 2022

Image: Twice in 2020 and once in 2021 the billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott surprised colleges unaccustomed to multimillion-dollar gifts—among them community colleges, tribal colleges and historically Black colleges and universities—with bigger gifts than they’ve ever gotten.…

A legal expert weighs in on the Supreme…

FeaturedFebruary 24, 2022

Since December 2019, after retiring to my Santa Fe, N.M., hometown, my wife and I have been hiding in plain sight. In the beautiful, arid high desert, we’ve quarantined, and I’ve been readying myself for…

Faculty Protest at Pasadena City College

FeaturedFebruary 19, 2022

Faculty members at Pasadena City College held a protest Thursday against returning to class in person on Monday, The Pasadena Star-News reported. Professors noted that many colleges in Southern California are returning at later dates,…

Rethinking the Performance Gap

FeaturedJanuary 29, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed GammaGeorgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce asks a provocative question: What would it mean if those in the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution held the same proportion of associate’s and…