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Nearly half of all students graduating with a four-year degree in the
2013-14 school year had some experience within a two-year
institution. That detail is a part of a new report released
Wednesday by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, which
found 46 percent of all students who completed a 4-year degree had been
enrolled at a 2-year institution at some point in the past 10 years.
Inside Higher Ed, March 26, 2015
Student-loan
default rates are easily gamed. Here's a better measure.
The University of the Rockies has a good federal student-loan default rate.
Only 7 percent of borrowers from the for-profit graduate school default on
their loans within three years of leaving the university — a better record
than its peer institutions. But a closer look at the data reveals a strange
pattern. From October 2008 to September 2011, nearly 1,300 borrowers from
the University of the Rockies started repaying their loans. Yet the
university awarded only 316 degrees during the 2008-2011 academic
years. In other words, for every degree earned at the University of
Rockies, four borrowers have their debts come due. So while many of the
students aren’t defaulting, they aren’t graduating either. This
disconnect between repayment, completion, and default exposes a significant
flaw in the key metric the federal government uses to police its
student-loan programs and decide which colleges to bar from eligibility.
And it highlights the weakness of current attempts at accountability around
student loans.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 26, 2015
Report on
challenges for high school counselors in college advising
High school counselors have significant time demands that keep them from
spending as much time as many would like on college advising, according
to a report released Wednesday by the National Association for
College Admission Counseling.
Inside Higher Ed, March 26, 2015
Video: How
an elite women’s college lost its base and found its mission
Almost 30 years ago, Trinity College, in Washington, D.C., faced a crisis
familiar to many small institutions today: It lost the ability to attract
the predominantly well-to-do women it had traditionally enrolled. So the
Roman Catholic women’s college adopted a risky strategy. It changed its
base, focusing instead on serving primarily African-American and Latina
women who face financial disadvantages. Under the 26-year tenure of President
Patricia A. McGuire, the college has not only stabilized but grown. A new
science-and-technology building is under construction, and the five schools
that make up the institution — now rechristened as Trinity Washington
University — have an enrollment of more than 2,200.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 25, 2015
International
students stream into U.S. colleges
American universities are enrolling unprecedented numbers of foreign
students, prompted by the rise of an affluent class in China and generous
scholarships offered by oil-rich Gulf states such as Saudi
Arabia. Cash-strapped public universities also are driving the trend,
aggressively recruiting students from abroad, especially undergraduates who
pay a premium compared with in-state students. There are 1.13 million
foreign students in the U.S., the vast majority in college-degree programs,
according to a report to be released Wednesday by the Department of
Homeland Security. That represents a 14 percent increase over last year,
nearly 50 percent more than in 2010 and 85 percent more than in 2005.
The Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2015
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