The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Dear Reader, Saying it’s been a wild year in higher education news seems like the understatement of the century. (I I think even non-education nerds would agree!)

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2022

These companies, which help colleges set up online programs and often help finance them as well in exchange for a cut of revenues, have lately seen a barrage of bad news. The associated news provided by 2U late last week alongside its earnings was no exception. The Pivot What 2U announced was both a pivot and an acceleration.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Community colleges have 14 percent fewer students in the fall of 2021 than they had two years ago, according to a preliminary enrollment report from the National Student Clearinghouse’s Research Center. Half of the 3,600 colleges and universities that the Clearinghouse tracks have reported their fall enrollment data so far.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

Okay, so you’re going to college. But will the college you pick still have its lights on by the time you get to graduation? It’s a question more and more families are asking as universities and colleges face financial and enrollment challenges, close or merge. Jon: This is College Uncovered. Kirk: Is there a pool?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In March, 2021, Meredith Kolodner and Sarah Butrymowicz first reported on the way that direct-to-student loans were used by for-profit colleges to bolster their business models while ensnaring students in practices that blocked them from getting jobs or transferring to other colleges. We’re investigating this hidden debt.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

College attendance among Black students dropped a whopping 8 percent during the summer of 2020, compared with the summer of 2019, according to the first “ Stay Informed ” report published in September 2020 by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Now the proof is starting to come in.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

The college wanted to offer students a hands-on learning experience in a lucrative tech field blooming in the Bay Area. Make School, a San Francisco-based gaming company turned for-profit educational institution, was already offering a short-term tech boot camp, designed to meet that same goal.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2022

Vanessa Valenciano had high hopes for the certificate she earned at public Aims Community College in Colorado. After all, colleges have been advertising these kinds of credentials as the next best thing to a degree. Related: Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years.

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The Jose Vilson

AUGUST 30, 2021

Not only are we in a perilous time with multiple states coming for educators’ jobs simply for speaking truth to power, but we also have a plethora of other global maladies that could be easily addressed if not for nefarious and well-resourced people across the spectrum profiteering off the chaos.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Yvonne Mendez was only six months away from graduating with a registered nursing degree from Anamarc College in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, when the school abruptly closed. Government agencies and accrediting bodies have safeguards to protect students from such abrupt college closures, but the oversight is often weak or too late.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When the coronavirus hit in the spring of 2020, student surveys indicated that four-year colleges would be hit the hardest this fall, with many students turning to cheaper two-year community colleges until the pandemic ended. That’s an estimated 600,000 fewer college students nationwide if these partial enrollment trends continue.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2019

Institutions like Southern New Hampshire University, Western Governors University, Liberty University, Grand Canyon University and Arizona State University are aiming to reshape higher education through massive investments in technology, new approaches to teaching and credentialing, and an appetite for growth.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

As the pandemic wanes, a chorus of commentators are offering predictions about what mark it will leave on higher education—with some forecasting colleges collapsing and others seeing increasing alliances with commercial partners. Most anticipate the growing centrality of online learning in university life. three or four days.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2023

Last month, when more than 200,000 students who had been victims of misconduct by their colleges began getting the news that their federal student loans were cancelled, Amanda Luciano felt a sense of satisfaction — and a pang of despair. I’m frustrated, because, what can I do? A federal judge ruled last fall, in Sweet v.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2021

My friend’s son was wrestling with a modern college dilemma: Would it be better to take a prerequisite course online or attend the lectures in-person? It’s a decision that’s likely to come up more frequently for college students as institutions expand their online course offerings.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2023

The ban effectively funneled many Latino and Black students to less-selective schools across the state , including community colleges, for-profit institutions and the California State University campuses. Unbeknownst to me at the time, the intersectionality of race and education underscored my personal journey.

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A new study from the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG): Educating for Misunderstanding: How Approaches to Teaching Digital Literacy Make Students Susceptible to Scammers, Rogues, Bad Actors, and Hate Mongers , reveals some of the issues. The first asked students to evaluate the trustworthiness of a news story from a satirical website.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

The effect was immediate and devastating for black students, black families and black institutions. As equity-based, debt-free college proposals percolate, we cannot forget that we are already in the midst of a crisis. Almost 45 million Americans are shouldering $1.5

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

After all, the number of men applying to college had already begun to fall below the number of women — a trend that would soon accelerate, worsening a growing nationwide decline in enrollment. Related: Colleges face reckoning as plummeting birthrate worsens enrollment declines. A college student moves into a dorm.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

“It is much easier to destroy an institution’s reputation than it is to build it,” says Tressie McMillan Cottom, an assistant professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University. Profit complicates that at a whole other level.”. EdSurge: Let’s start with the big news of the month: Purdue and Kaplan.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2020

When the economy stalls, demand for college typically rises as the unemployed decide to go back to school to improve their job prospects. The number of students who enrolled in college jumped by almost 2.5 These older adults tended to enroll in two-year community colleges and for-profit online schools, such as University of Phoenix.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

. — GiveCampus, the world’s leading digital fundraising and volunteer management platform for nonprofit educational institutions, announced today that it will begin facilitating cryptocurrency donations for the nearly 1,000 schools on its platform in 2021. About GiveCampus.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Editor’s note: Black students are more likely than their peers to borrow money for college, struggle with repayment and default on student loans. Like other institutions, dozens of U.S. colleges and universities have uncovered an overabundance of records documenting their culpability in slavery, America’s gravest sin.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

Every year the College Board, the organization that oversees Advanced Placement and SAT exams, publishes an alarming graph. It depicts college tuition soaring like a rocket into the sky, although the trajectory has leveled off in recent years. But a pair of academic economists are flipping this message on its head.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2021

SAN DIEGO – Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Morehouse College offered fewer than nine online courses. Older students have become an increasingly important market for universities and colleges. More than 35 million Americans over 25 have some college credits, but never got degrees. .

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

. Today, students from all backgrounds are choosing to go to college, and many borrow money to make that possible. In 2015–16, nearly 16 percent of African-American bachelor’s degree recipients earned their degrees in the for-profit sector, compared with 12 percent of Hispanic and 7 percent each of white and Asian graduates.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

“I got this degree that I don’t even hang on my wall anymore,” Andrews said at a recent Brooklyn Film Festival screening of “ Fail State ,” a new documentary by Alex Shebanow highlighting ways for-profit colleges have exploited veterans and vulnerable students. Ninety-eight percent of those claims involve for-profit colleges.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

trillion , the country has finally begun to talk about the punishing financial costs of obtaining a college degree. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Black students who are raising children borrow an average of $18,100 for college, compared with an average of $13,500 among all students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

We may not yet know what college admissions will look like after the pandemic, but the influence of the SAT and the ACT — once critical requirements in a student’s college application process — is rapidly eroding before our eyes. A year ago — before the pandemic — there was just one selective test-blind college.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The fall semester for most college students won’t look like any semester in the past, and that’s not such a bad thing for Keenan Johnson. He attends one of North Carolina’s historically black colleges and universities, Johnson C. Smith University, a historically black institution in North Carolina. Credit: Keenan Johnson.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

More than 100,000 adults earned earned entry-level manufacturing certifications at community and technical colleges between 2005 and 2018, but only 40 percent worked in manufacturing afterward. The good news is that adults who succeed in earning entry-level manufacturing certifications earned notably higher salaries afterwards.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2021

WASHINGTON — It was the personalized emails that got Jadyn Turner to consider Catholic University when she was choosing a college. Of higher education institutions advertising, she said: “I didn’t know that was a thing”. Related: Colleges face reckoning as plummeting birthrate worsens enrollment declines. I mean, wow.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

This story also appeared in NBC News. Fernanda Borges Nogueira, senior network program manager, Roosevelt Institute. Like many businesses, universities and colleges are struggling with a crisis that was not of their own making. Related: Desperate for students, colleges resort to previously banned recruiting tactics.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2022

EdSurge brought together a panel of K-12 and college experts last week at the SXSW EDU conference in Austin, Texas, to talk about the issue and propose ways forward. He has written opinion pieces in Education Week, USA Today, The Dallas Morning News and many other publications. First of all, there is no other side of this.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2016

College and university enrollment fell during the semester just coming to an end, marking a fifth straight year of decline. The Topic: College and university enrollment. It also signals further problems for not only for-profit colleges and universities, but private nonprofit ones for which tuition is the principal source of revenue.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2020

colleges and universities are working to deal with the public health and logistical implications of the coronavirus in a global emergency, we’re seeing a rushed move to use online education tools, often from private, for-profit companies. higher-education institutions. higher education. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Editor’s note: Black students are more likely than their peers to borrow money for college, struggle with repayment and default on student loans. trillion , with the average college undergraduate graduating with about $30,000 in loans. Student loan debt is a major concern.

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