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American Higher Education in Crisis?
A timely primer on the current embattled state of American higher education, this book guides readers through the forces and trends that have brought the education system to this point, and highlights some of the ways they will reshape America's colleges in the years to come.
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What Real Change Looks Like: Experts offer three guiding principles of innovation
A classroom may resemble one from decades ago, but the students in it could be using free open-source materials instead of commercial textbooks, participating in group projects and other active-learning activities, choosing courses through \"guided pathways\" to degrees and careers, and connecting regularly with advisers, thanks to technology-powered alerts and nudges. Achieving the Dream, a 15-year-old organization that works to improve student outcomes at community colleges, tries not to use the term \"innovation\" with member institutions, because it can scare away otherwise willing collaborators. [...]more than 200 institutions now have senior positions with words like \"innovation\" or \"digital\" in their title, and another 200 have roles in online learning \"that are often connected to broader academic-innovation efforts,\" according to a report in 2018 by the consulting firm Entangled Solutions. Rufus Glasper, a former chancellor of the Maricopa Community Colleges and now president of the League for Innovation in the Community College, saw that with a federal program aimed at creating more partnerships between two-year institutions and industry.
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Making a Gap Year More Than an Overseas Vacation
While many commercial gap-year programs do tend to draw from upper-income families, 49 percent of Global Citizen Year's fellows come from low-income backgrounds; 45 percent are students of color. When we spoke last week, as Global Citizen Year announced a dozen new college partners that will promote its program as an option for incoming students, I was taken by the way Falik is trying to reframe these experiences. Earlier that day I'll be talking about \"The Fierce Urgency of the Adult Student\" with Louis Soares, from the American Council on Education; David Scobey, who directs Bringing Theory to Practice; and Adam Bush, provost of the newly accredited experimental institution called College Unbound.
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Think ACT Is Just a College-Admissions Test? Think Again
According to its latest publicly available tax filings, for the year ending August 31, 2016, ACT held net assets of $443 million. [...]the Educational Testing Service, the organization that develops the SAT, has also been diversifying itself; it even made at least one move into the ed-tech world, providing financial support to a start-up incubator called LearnLaunch Accelerator. Even with its resources, ACT is entering an ed-tech sector flooded with capital — from traditional venture-capital firms, from foundations like Gates and Lumina, and from organizations flush from their work guaranteeing student loans, like Strada Education Network and ECMC.
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'Gag Clause' at Purdue Global Raises Alarms About Faculty Rights
Professors at Purdue University and leaders of the American Association of University Professors are questioning the expansive nondisclosure agreement that Purdue University Global is requiring its faculty members to sign. Nalbone, who is also vice president of the Indiana conference of the AAUP, said the noncompete clause seemed to be \"a particularly pernicious poison pill, especially given that so many adjunct faculty are working multiple jobs,\" which they sometimes get through colleagues. The question of who owns course materials can be a murky intellectual-property issue at institutions where online courses often are created by teams that include faculty members, instructional designers, and experts on assessment.
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Degrees and Certificates Rise in U.S., but Not Fast Enough
According to the latest figures, 46.9 percent of the population held a degree or credential of value in 2016, up from 45.8 percent in 2015. Along with lifting the college-going rate among 18- to 24-year olds, Merisotis said, the foundation sees \"huge opportunity\" in raising the overall educational-attainment rate by focusing on adults who could benefit from a credential rather than a degree, and he noted that many federal lawmakers now seem attuned to that approach as well.
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Bringing Back Adult Students Takes More Than a Catchy Campaign
Two years later, the university tried again with a program called Experience Counts, only to discover that many of the students it was hoping to reach had already exhausted their eligibility for federal student aid. [...]state lawmakers, two successive governors from different political parties, and grass-roots efforts have also supported a focus on adult students statewide. Along with the state-funding-formula incentive to colleges to enroll adult students, a network of Tennessee Reconnect Ambassadors helps advise adults on their college options and, in some cases, assists them in resolving defaults on their earlier student debt. In anticipation of Adult Promise, each college is expected to establish a Reconnect Team, to train faculty and staff members for the influx of adults; and to provide each student with a personalized Reconnect Success Plan (parents, for example, will get information on child care nearby).
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Can a 20-Minute Test Tell Employers What a College Degree Cannot?
Some companies and education groups think so. A spate of attempts to assess job readiness offers a new challenge to the value of higher education.When it comes to hiring, many employers still lean toward graduates from name-brand institutions. Yet those employers don’t entirely trust what a college degree represents. Does it really mean you can get the job done?More and more, their answer is no.That’s a problem, and some education groups and companies think they have a way to fix it. Their idea: simple tests that employers can use to measure whether college graduates and others are really ready for the jobs they apply for.
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Purdue's purchase of Kaplan is a big bet--and a sign of the times
Purdue plans to oversee the institution as a new piece of its public-university system -- a free-standing arm that will cater to working adults and other nontraditional students. The purchase, conceived and executed in just five and a half months, puts Purdue in position to become a major force in an online landscape increasingly dominated by nonprofit institutions. [...]said Purdue's president, Mitch Daniels, the university \"has basically been a spectator to this growth\" in distance education, with just a few online graduate programs. (Kaplan now has 32,000 students.) The contrast between the typical Purdue student and the military veterans, lower-income students, and members of minority groups who make up much of the enrollment at the open-access Kaplan is \"stark,\" said Mr. Daniels. Kaplan Inc., the university's parent company, will continue to provide the technology, marketing, admissions and financial-aid, and other back-office services for the more than 100 certificate and degree programs that it currently offers. With the acquisition, Kaplan will no longer be subject to federal rules like the \"gainful employment\" regulation, which penalizes career-focused programs whose graduates end up with too much federal student-loan debt relative to the income they earn. According to U.S. Education Department data released in January, five of Kaplan's programs failed that test and 16 others were in the warning zone. A few months ago, the same accreditor rejected a proposal from the for-profit Grand Canyon University, which was seeking to spin off its academic arm into a nonprofit university and to outsource much of...
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