How will changes to Google’s college search features impact community college enrollment? Reported by Education Dive, while Google’s “college search” features have historically only included 4-year colleges, community colleges will now be included in these search rankings. As these typically low-priced options are added to rankable college search listings, will this small database change vastly […]

While 65% of City University of New York’s budget runs off city and state support, one university president believes the future of private institution support needs to come through employer partnerships. Reported by Education Dive, Jayson Boyers, president of Cleary University, believes industry-education partnerships may provide the revenue stream diversity so needed by private institutions. […]

Indiana University’s attempts to remove some of the stigma behind mental health issues appears to be working. Reported by Education Dive, the peer-led U Bring Change to Mind (UBC2M) has been holding events, “de-stress” activities, and bi-weekly meetings in attempt to boost mental health awareness and services across campus. Longitudinal surveys have shown a decrease […]

The University of Maryland is opening a brand-new tech hub near Amazon’s new HQ2 headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Reported by Education Dive, the University of Maryland joins Virginia Tech and George Mason University in building new facilities near HQ2 in attempts to partner with and leverage the proximity of Amazon for their own technology initiatives. […]

Southern New Hampshire University is now offering course credit for free Salesforce training. Reported by Education Dive, SNHU will now count completion of Salesforce’s free online training program, Trailhead, as a technology elective. This follows the path of more and more colleges and universities partnering with and incorporating popular technology and software credentials into their […]

Why is Davidson College’s Career Center playing substitute teacher? Reported by the Chronicle of Higher Education, when faculty at Davidson College have conflicts that prevent them from making it to class, they are asked not to cancel the class, but to call the Career Center instead. This is just one way Davidson’s Career Center attempts […]

Sure, online education can help scale higher ed. But when will it finally personalize it? Reported by Inside Higher Ed, the promise of online education has always been broader than merely teaching more students at once. We’ve used like predictive. Adaptive. Personalized. But are we finally getting there? MIT Sloan Professor Erik Brynjolfsson claims that […]

What can we learn from other countries’ “free college” initiatives? Reported by Education Dive, a new study from the American Enterprise Institute suggests some potential unintended consequences of free college. Specifically in these international use cases, you find a high correlation between an increase in federal subsidies and lower admission rates. This is partially because […]