Education

Dive Brief: College faculty, administrators and governing boards should all help strengthen free expression on campuses, according to a new series of recommendations from the Bipartisan Policy Center.  The Washington, D.C.-based think tank developed a “roadmap,” released Tuesday, for colleges to adapt. It focuses heavily on proactive approaches to addressing “inevitable” conflicts over free speech … Read more

Dive Brief:  Temple University’s former business school dean was found guilty of submitting fraudulent data to U.S. News & World Report to boost the institution’s rankings, prosecutors announced Monday.  Moshe Porat, 74, was dean of the Philadelphia university’s Richard J. Fox School of Business and Management from 1996 to 2018. Prosecutors said that from 2014 … Read more

Dive Brief:  Two community colleges, Lewis and Clark Community College in Illinois and Butler County Community College in Pennsylvania, are starting the week closed as they recover from separate cyberattacks.  Lewis and Clark Community College told students via Facebook that all of its campuses will be closed throughout the week to give the school’s information … Read more

Dive Brief: Only a small fraction of the colleges that accept the Common Application required first-year undergraduates to submit admissions exam scores during the 2021-22 season, showing the degree to which test-optional policies proliferated even as the pandemic’s immediate disruptions eased. Just 5% of roughly 900 colleges that are members of the Common App, the … Read more

Editor’s note: It’s harder than ever for colleges to fill their incoming classes, but some schools are meeting that challenge with creativity. In this regular column, called The Pipeline, we’ll spotlight innovative tactics colleges are using to cut through the noise and reach prospective students throughout the recruitment and enrollment process. Student loan debt has … Read more

Dive Brief:  Colleges can help single mothers succeed by providing them with basic needs supports, building inclusive environments on campus and giving them flexible educational experiences, according to a new report from the Education Design Lab.  The Education Design Lab, a nonprofit organization focused on education and the workforce, is helping four community colleges launch … Read more

Months into the COVID-19 pandemic, hackers had taken control of data belonging to a University of California San Francisco research team testing a possible coronavirus vaccine. They were demanding $3 million in exchange for returning control of the data. A university negotiator sent them a plea. “The sense is that it’s not looking good,” the … Read more

Prior Learning Assessments (PLA) have long been associated with better student outcomes for adult learners, including higher credential completion and cost and time savings. But in a recent student study conducted by The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL), just 11% of adult students at 69 participating post-secondary institutions earned PLA credits.  For many … Read more

Daniel Sparks is a doctoral student in economics and education at Columbia University and a senior research assistant at the Community College Research Center at Teachers College. A number of recent op-eds argue that doctoral students stand to gain both within and outside of academia by thinking and acting more entrepreneurially. Ph.D. student malaise resulting … Read more

Colleges and universities have been home to their fair share of union activity of late. The stage is set for another chapter in the lengthy battle over college athlete unionization. Faculty members at the University of Pittsburgh last month voted in a landslide to unionize after years of efforts. Within the last few weeks, graduate … Read more