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Department of Education Announces Latest Additions to College Scorecard Data

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Yesterday, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced additions to the data available to consumers and researchers using the College Scorecard. Some of the changes announced include the average earnings two years after graduation based on field of study, the amount of Parent PLUS loans borrowed by parents of students to pay for their child to attend an institution, and the amount of loans borrowed at previous institutions attended for students who transfer. […]

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Ipsos Survey for World Economic Forum Indicates Shifted Expectations for Online Higher Ed

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On behalf of the World Economic Forum, global marketing research firm Ipsos surveyed 27,500 adults in 29 countries on how they see higher education being delivered in five years. […]

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Scott Galloway’s ‘Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity’

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I follow NYU business school professor and serial entrepreneur Scott Galloway on Twitter and through his blog, No Mercy/No Malice. When he posted that he had written a new book, ‘Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity,’ I ordered it, just in time to read over the Thanksgiving holiday. […]

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The High Cost of Failing Programs in Higher Education

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Burning Glass Technologies, a data analytics company that matches labor data with institutional degree data, published a white paper this week entitled Bad Bets: The High Cost of Failing Programs in Higher Education. The data team at Burning Glass accessed Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) data searching for institutions that offered new degree programs in 2012-2013 and 2013-2014. […]

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Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines (Part 2)

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If the transparency of credentials makes them clear to all interested parties, how do we accomplish that? Mr. Merisotis writes that the first step is to use common frameworks to define knowledge and skills. […]

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Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines (Part 1)

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When I read a short blurb about the latest book authored by Lumina CEO Jamie Merisotis, Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines, I was skeptical that anyone would be able to make an argument that the number of jobs will increase as artificial intelligence (AI) continues to be embraced by more and more companies. After reading and rereading Human Work, I continue to be a skeptic, but I am more of a believer in the methodology proposed by Mr. Merisotis. […]

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A Year of Grand Challenges or a Year for Grand Challenges?

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Grand Challenges for tough-to-solve problems have been documented in higher education as far back as 1906. Earlier this year, EDUCAUSE issued a number of Grand Challenges for Higher Education that their leadership believed could be solved through a digital transformation. […]

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Is This the End of Traditional College as We Know It?

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Doug Belkin’s article in last week’s Wall Street Journal poses the big question: “Is this the end of college as we know it?” Mr. Belkin opens his article with the education paths and career paths of a married couple living in Tampa, Florida. […]

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Grand Challenges in Assessment: Collective Issues in Need of Solutions

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In a recently issued paper, co-authors Karen Singer-Freeman and Christine Robinson report the results of their project to identify the grand challenges for assessment in higher education. […]

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Fall 2020 Higher Ed Enrollment Updated

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The National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) has provided monthly updates of Fall 2020 college enrollments. The most recent update reports enrollment as of October 22 and the percentage of institutions reporting enrollment data has increased from 54 percent to 76 percent. […]

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