Enrollments
fall
College enrollment numbers tend to be cyclical. A poor economy forces many
adult learners into the classroom to retrain or hone their skills, but when
it improves, enrollments decrease as they return to the workforce. That's
the current state of affairs for community colleges and for-profit
institutions across the country according to new data released by
the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
Inside Higher Ed, May 14, 2015
The real cost
of college
Claims that college tuition in the U.S. has risen because of reductions in
legislative subsidies for higher education are at best gross
oversimplifications — an argument I made in a New York
Times piece published last month. I noted that, although tuition
at public colleges and universities has nearly quadrupled since
1980 in real terms (and tripled at private ones), total state
appropriations have also risen dramatically. It’s true that, at the
state level, the 48 percent inflation-adjusted increase in legislative
spending over the past 35 years hasn’t kept pace with the
roughly 60 percent increase in enrollment in public institutions
of higher learning.
The Atlantic, May 13, 2015
Problems deepen
for ITT
Federal regulators stepped up their scrutiny of ITT Educational Services on
Tuesday, charging the large for-profit chain and its two top executives
with fraud for allegedly concealing massive losses in two student loan
programs the company backed.
Inside Higher Ed, May 13, 2015
Why 8th-graders
in Washington are already thinking about college
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill into law Tuesday that expands
the College Bound Scholarship program. The program places
students from low-income families onto a college prep track as they're
wrapping up middle school, and it helps pay their college tuition when they
graduate from high school.
KUOW, May 12, 2015
Report: Rising
share of Hispanics speak proficient English
A rising share of Hispanics in the United States speak proficient English
and the percentage of those speaking Spanish at home has been declining,
researchers said Tuesday. A report by the Washington-based Pew
Research Center found 68 percent of Hispanics spoke only English at home or
spoke English very well in 2013, up from 59 percent in 2000. The share of
Hispanics speaking Spanish at home dropped to 73 percent from 78 percent
over the same period. The shift comes as migration to the United
States from Latin America has slowed.
The Seattle Times, May 12, 2015
New allegations
of an SAT security breach, this time on a U.S. test
SAT cheating investigations this school year have centered in Asia, where
student scores have been withheld in October, November, December and
January. Now there’s a new facet to the scandal: Along with allegations of
cheating in Asia on the May exam, questions have been raised about a
security breach of the SAT that hundreds of thousands of students took in
the United States on May 2.
The Washington Post, May 12, 2015
Number of
Starbucks workers getting free tuition could double
One month after extending its free tuition program, Starbucks may nearly
double the number of its workers using it to get a degree. There are
currently 2,200 Starbucks workers enrolled in Arizona State University.
Now, another 1,800 employees have applied to ASU.
Q13 Fox, May 11, 2015
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