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It’s almost impossible to read about changes in higher ed without reading about the “opportunity” for institutions that built online courses during the pandemic to market those programs and courses…

The Texas 2036 organization recently issued a blog article regarding the importance of community colleges to the state’s growth and financial well-being. Texas has 50 community college districts serving the…

For more than two decades, I have looked for innovations and advances in technology that can improve outcomes in education. Thanks to Moore’s Law, the costs of many technologies have…

Last week the Texas A&M College of Arts & Sciences published an article regarding their participation in a collaborative digital innovation initiative to improve student success in Texas and beyond.…

With all of the hoopla about the declining ROI of a college degree and the move to short-term credentials that can lead to increased wages, it was surprising to read…

My recent posts about Upskilling and Reskilling, Top Skills for Future Jobs, and A Two Year Review of Workforce Education left me thinking about how workers market their education, skills,…

Last week, Inside Higher Ed released a print on demand compilation titled Compilation on Measuring the Value of Higher Education. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partnered with Inside Higher…

One of the newsletters that I regularly read is Workforce Monitor. In July, Editor-in-Chief George Lorenzo published A Review of Workforce Education, 2020 to 2022: Two Years of Enormous Change.…

With more than 830 million members in 200 countries and territories, LinkedIn’s data about the jobs that its members occupy are as current as the frequency by which its members…

Throughout the years, I have enjoyed reading some of the detailed education research reports from BMO Capital Markets Corp. analyst Jeffrey Silber. His recently issued paper, The Upskilling and Reskilling…

This past week, Quality Matters and Eduventures released their annual survey of Chief Online Officers. The Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE) survey has been conducted for a few years.…

Last week, I quickly posted an article about the student loan forgiveness proposal from President Biden. I posted nine issues that represented my first thoughts about the proposal. Here are…

Yesterday, the White House announced a final Covid-19 related extension of the suspension of student loan repayments through December 31, 2022 as well as the long-awaited campaign promise of President…

Author and journalist Will Bunch’s introduction in After the Ivory Tower Falls provides an overview of his book in three sentences: “More than a half century after the baby booms…

In my recent article discussing the Daedalus issue on Artificial Intelligence and Society, I mentioned that the issue’s editors had organized the papers submitted in several different categories. The Michael…