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I am never surprised about the naivete of many in higher education about the changing perspectives regarding degrees and microcredentials. Earlier this week, I read an article in The evolllution…

In June of 2021, I published an article about Texas’ ambitious 60x30TX strategic plan. There are four major goals for the plan that has been in existence since 2015. By…

In a blog article that I titled The Signs Are All Around Us, I included a few thoughts about the NC Promise program. That write-up is republished below as a…

In September 2021, Amazon announced that it would pay full college tuition for its 750,000 front-line employees. The benefit not only included tuition but also the cost of books and…

In a recently published article, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute president Michael Petrilli writes that the “sky is falling” arguments lamenting the decline in college enrollments are “entirely too pessimistic.”…

In my recent commentary on the Brookings article about why more adults weren’t finishing community college, I noted that the authors had published a more extensive research paper in the…

In an article published by Brookings, co-authors Kelli Bird, Ben Castleman, Brett Fischer, and Benjamin Skinner write about their research investigating the labor market trajectories of adults who earned some…

Shortly after I posted my blog article about the Rory McGreal and Don Olcott paper, A Strategic Reset: Micro-credentials for Higher Education Leaders, I read that the SUNY System and…

There are no shortages of articles and books about the shift in higher education from a focus on degrees to a focus on short-term certificates and other credentials that provide…

Inside Higher Ed’s Josh Moody reported last week that the University of Kansas (KU) leadership team was seeking to cut 42 academic programs while the KU University Senate only agreed…

The Burning Glass Institute recently published The Emerging Degree Reset, a paper co-authored by Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Fuller, PhD candidate Christina Langer, Emsi Burning Glass senior research analyst…

In a move eerily reminiscent of former Sen. James Webb’s GI Bill legislation, the House passed legislation on February 4, 2022, to expand Pell grant eligibility for any short-term program…

Over the weekend, I watched Duke’s men’s basketball team beat their rival, the UNC Tarheels. Since my days as a Duke student, I’ve watched a lot of these games over…

I was an early subscriber to LinkedIn. The service allowed me to list my professional qualifications and experiences and connect with people I knew and people with similar experiences and…

Last week, Rio Salado College and the Tempe Chamber of Commerce announced the release of survey results designed to identify micro-credential educational program options that could benefit businesses in the…