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I received a copy of the Higher Education newsletter this week. Published by The Hechinger Report, the newsletter is distributed weekly. The headline article reported about the University of Central…

Photo by PhotoSpirit – stock.adobe.com The campaign continues to convince Ivy League and other elite universities to eliminate legacy admissions and admit more lower income students after the Supreme Court…

After more than six decades, I close my eyes and think about the truly great teachers I experienced along my educational journey. My elementary school teachers were generalists, required to…

A simple question from a friend and colleague about how independent school K-12 learning outcomes are established and measured led me down a road less traveled. I am very familiar…

A blog post from Wharton Interactive’s Faculty Director Ethan Mollick provided me with the heads up about an AI study with potential implications to the Future of Work. Mollick wrote…

For years, college students have complained about the cost of textbooks and course materials. At American Public University System, the institution where I served as president until August 2020, our…

I realized after writing about the financial aid practices at Ivy Plus universities, elite non-Ivy Plus colleges and universities, HBCUs, and large state universities, that there was a distinctive group…

Enrollments in U.S. colleges and universities flourished from 1940 through 2010. For the past decade and a half, many colleges have struggled with adjusting their fixed cost, campus-based business model…

Last week, the New York Times published a guest essay from associate professor of German Leif Weatherby at NYU. The title of the essay, What Just Happened at West Virginia…

As rising seniors prepare to return to high school for their senior year, I thought I’d prepare an article discussing a way to find out a lot of information about…

Recently, I wrote several articles about admissions, financial aid awards, and net price for higher education institutions. The purpose for the first article in the sequence was to point out…

As I continue to reflect on the differences between private and public colleges and universities, I thought it would be interesting to look at the admissions and financial aid practices…

As rising seniors prepare to return to high school for their senior year, I thought I would write about a way to find information about prospective colleges beyond their websites…

During the beginning of a recent board of directors Zoom call, one of my fellow board members said hello and that she enjoyed reading my recent blog article. I asked…

For a while now, I’ve been an admirer of the projects that Jobs for the Future (JFF), a national non-profit based in Boston, initiates in order to drive transformations of…