Filter & Sort
Race and Inequity
Segregation in higher education remains largely ignored, but two new studies show increasing concentrations of disadvantaged students at community colleges can affect completion rates.
Coach Knows Best
Student coaching appears to pay off by boosting retention and graduation rates. Does outsourcing coaching make sense if a private company does it best?
Less Academically Adrift?
Challenging findings of landmark 2011 study, new data suggest that college students make significantly bigger gains in critical thinking. But differences in methodology may contribute to the differing conclusions.
Motivation Matters
ETS releases a new test to measure students' non-academic skills. Colleges want to use test for advising and finding remedial students with "grit."
Coaching, Off the Field
A year of heading the student affairs division at Akron has opened the eyes of Jim Tressel, best known as the former and embattled Ohio State football coach, to the pitfalls of athletics and challenges of working in higher education.
Free for All Over 'College for All'
A Brookings paper challenging the notion that "everyone should go to college" is itself challenged (from many sides) for overstating its case.
Ed Tech and the Establishment
Community colleges talk up promise of free and self-paced online course content at two-year association's annual meeting.
Opinion
A Better Factory Model
The factory production model can work as a means for evaluating community college efficiency, write Clive Belfield and Davis Jenkins.