College Rankings Don’t Tell Entire Story of Higher Ed Success
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) By Thomas J. Botzman, Ph.D. President, Misericordia University Forbes Magazine loves lists. The publication features an inventory of the world’s billionaires and measures the wealth of the richest families. It ranks the top 100 wealth managers and offers tips on wealth building, among other interesting topics. It is also in the […]
Clinton, Democrats Tout Free College Tuition Plans
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Throughout the Democratic National Convention, supporters of Hillary Clinton spoke about many ways to make higher education more affordable, including plans for free college tuition and reduced interest rates on current college loans. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s plan would offer students coming from a family who makes less than $ 125,000 the chance […]
College Students Spend Less Than 3 Hours Per Day on School
(Photo: Andrew Pons, Creative Commons) A new study has exposed how college students use their time in an effort to inform taxpayers who subsidize federal student loans, finding that the average college student spends a total of just 2.76 hours each day on all forms of education-related activities. In “Big Debt, Little Study: What Taxpayers Should Know About […]
Hillary Clinton Backs Plan for Free College Tuition
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Hillary Clinton’s team has revealed a plan to do away with tuition at in-state public colleges and universities for families that make up to $ 125,000 annually. This idea was one of Bernie Sanders’ central positions in which he pledged to make public institutions available to all students at no tuition […]
Nearly 1 Million in Community College Lack Access to Federal Loans
(Photo: Youtube, Creative Commons) An increasing number of community colleges are exiting the federal student loan program, leaving nearly a million students without access to affordable options to pay for school. Nearly 1 in 10 community college students in 32 states have no access to federal student loans, and nearly half of these students are […]
Most College Students Don’t Feel Prepared for Career, Life
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) A newly-released report from McGraw-Hill Education on career readiness among college graduates suggests that only four of every ten college seniors feel that their time spent in college has adequately prepared them for life with a career. The third annual Workforce Readiness Survey found that just 40% of college seniors, and a similar […]
College Students Miss Mark on Financial Literacy, Survey Shows
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) LendEdu, an online marketplace created to offer student loan borrowers insight into their personal finances and loans without damaging their credit, has released its 2016 College Students and Personal Finance Study — and the results show a high degree of financial uncertainty among college students. The study surveyed current college students […]
AIR Report Offers New Model for Calculating College Grad Rates
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) American Institutes for Research, a nonpartisan non-profit that conducts behavioral and social science research, has released a report titled “Toward Improved Measurement of Student Persistence and Completion” which describes how the U.S. Department of Education can more accurately report graduation rates. In 2015, according to the U.S. Department of Education, 70,000 […]
College Students Don’t Sleep Enough, Study Suggests
(Photo: CollegeDegrees360, Creative Commons) Several new studies suggest that because the average college student spends the majority of their day staring at their cellphone in addition to several hours before they go to sleep, both their quantity and quality of sleep is becoming affected as a result. A new study from Ithaca College in Upstate New […]
Despite Protests, Yale Keeps Calhoun College Name
(Image: Yale University) Yale President Peter Salovey has announced that Calhoun College, one of the 12 undergraduate residential colleges on campus, will be keeping its name in an effort to push the school to face its history dealing with slavery and to teach that history to students at the school. The college in question was […]