What happens when our faculty can’t even afford to live near campus? Reported by Higher Ed Dive, approximately 20% of faculty and staff at Middlebury College in Vermont commute across state lines because they can’t afford to live any closer. Across the country, we’re seeing this become a bigger and bigger issue. Real estate prices […]

Will the Roe v. Wade reversal impact college enrollment in certain states? Reported by ABC News, college discussion forums, including College Confidential and Reddit contain large volumes of discussions suggesting the Roe v. Wade decision may have an impact on a student’s college decision. These students are actively questioning whether they want to attend schools […]

Which groups of student stop-outs are we getting better at re-enrolling? Reported by Higher Ed Dive, a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center highlights a few categories of student types over-indexing on their return vs. the stop-out group. Specifically, students under 25 years old are the most likely to return % wise, […]

Michigan institutions have fired hundreds of employees for non-compliance on vaccine mandates. Reported by Detroit News, Michigan State University alone has fired more than 500 employees, and between MSU and the University of Michigan, more than 2,750 students have had holds placed on their accounts, preventing them from enrolling in future courses until they provide […]

Should Al Roker be a part of your enrollment communications nurture? Reported by Inside Higher Ed, SUNY Oswego alumnus Al Roker wrote a letter for prospective students in the communications schools’ enrollment sequence. This is part of SUNY Oswego’s “everyone’s involved” approach to enrollment, which challenges faculty and alumni to be as involved in admissions […]

Can coding alone save us? Reported by Protocol, while Coursera and other microcredential providers have focused hard on hard skills these past few years, Coursera’s most recent Global Skills Report shows that U.S. learners have started leaning back to human skills during the pandemic, including resilience, project management, decision-making and storytelling – much more so […]

Do our free college programs inherently target the middle class first? Reported by Inside Higher Ed, 57% of Exclesior Scholarship student families participating in New York State’s free college program had an annual household income of $70,000 or greater. Critics of this program believe that this is well-intentioned design that ignored the fact that the […]

Why is higher ed so slow to adopt microcredentials? Reported by Evolllution, Sheila Blanc from the University of Calgary believes it’s because we still don’t have a shared language to talk about our degree credentials, these microcredentials, and how they connect in a broader framework. The takeaway? How can we create this common language? And […]

Our online students are getting younger. Reported by Higher Ed Dive, a recent EducationDynamics report shows online students are younger and more likely to be working full-time than they were five years ago. Now, there’s likely a pandemic asterisk on this data for sure, but it also makes sense to believe this trend is likely […]