In students'
minds, textbooks are increasingly optional purchases
The average amount that college students spend on course materials appears
to be declining. But not necessarily because textbooks are cheaper. A
growing number of students, surveys show, simply skip buying required
course materials. A survey of undergraduates on 23 campuses by the
National Association of College Stores, expected to be released on
Thursday, found that students spent an average of $563 on course materials
during the 2014-15 academic year, compared with $638 the year before.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 9, 2015
Study links
college completion and longer lives
New evidence for the "completion agenda": finish college and you
are likely to live longer. Researchers at New York University, the
University of Colorado at Denver and the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill released findings Wednesday that show consistent
links between greater levels of education and longer lives.
Inside Higher Ed, July 9, 2015
Gates backs
FAFSA overhaul
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is throwing its support behind
efforts to redesign the federal government’s student aid application
process to make it easier for students to get loans and grants for college.
In a white paper published Wednesday, the foundation called for
reducing and streamlining questions on the application form, known as the
FAFSA, and allowing families to apply for aid earlier during the college
process.
Inside Higher Ed, July 9, 2015
Study: Federal
loans drive up private college tuition
The availability of subsidized federal student loans play a role in
increasing tuition, particularly at less-selective private nonprofit
colleges with relatively affluent student bodies and for-profit
colleges, a study by researchers for the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York finds.
Inside Higher Ed, July 9, 2015
Higher ed
upvoted
For some academics, the social network Reddit is becoming less of a guilty
pleasure and more of a credible platform to discuss academic interests with
people whom they otherwise would not have had a chance to debate.
Inside Higher Ed, July 8, 2015
'Stabilizing'
financial picture
Financial sustainability is a marathon, not a sprint; a college that wants
to endure has to worry about much more than getting through the next year.
So it would be a mistake to read too much into reports like the
ones Moody's Investors Service issued on Tuesday, which show a
"stabilizing" financial picture for most colleges and
universities in the 2014 fiscal year.
Inside Higher Ed, July 8, 2015
More educators
embrace social and emotional learning, national survey says
The movement to make social and emotional skills as important to a child’s
education as reading, math and science is gaining ground, according
to a national survey of educators published by the newsweekly
Education Week, a national weekly newspaper.
The Seattle Times, July 2, 2015
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