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States boost college funding, rein in tuition costs
By Mary Beth Marklein and Michael Auslen
After years of deep budget cuts, several states are poised to boost higher education funding this year, often in exchange for a promise by public colleges and universities to freeze tuition.
Iowa, Minnesota, Montana and Nebraska are among states where universities have agreed to keep their in-state tuition flat if lawmakers give them more money. Governors of California, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island support similar deals. University of Maine System trustees say they’ll won’t raise tuition as long as their state funding isn’t cut.
Read more: usatoday.com
Posted in Educational Financing
Tagged college funding
Future for higher education
By Bill Schubart
I think the college of the future will have greatly reduced but more intense classroom and lab discovery through discussion and experiment. More time will be spent online doing what we used to call “homework” with a personal faculty mentor available for a weekly conference. We will also see a leap in “experiential learning” in the form of a practicum or internship. The ratio of these will depend on the course of study and their optimal utility.
Read more: vtdigger.org
Posted in Future of Higher Education
Tagged experiential learning, internship, online education, practicum
The future of higher education is debatable
By Celia R. Baker
New learning platforms driven by technology promise to make college learning less expensive and more accessible, but some say those radical changes could topple higher education’s traditional model. That was the subject of a recent web-based video debate about the future of higher education titled “It’s the End of College as We Know It.”
Read more: deseretnews.com
A Stronger Nation through Higher Education
Visualizing data to help us achieve a big goal for college attainment
Lumina Foundation’s report A Stronger Nation through Higher Education estimates that 38.7 % of working-age Americans held a two- or four-year college degree in 2011. That is not good enough to meet the foundation’s Goal 2025: increase the percentage of Americans with “high-quality degrees and credentials” to 60% in 12 years.
Read the full report: luminafoundation.org
Top 3 targeted student populations for student retention programs, as rated by campus officials in spring 2013
By Fred Longenecker
In the findings of a new, spring 2013 Noel-Levitz poll, campus officials across higher education rated honors programs and first-year student programs among the top three of 11 programs aimed at retaining specific student populations. These two programs also made the poll’s overall list of the “top 10 most effective strategies and tactics” for student retention and college completion initiatives.
Read more: noellevitz.com
Posted in Persistence and Graduation, Student retention
Tagged Noel Levitz, student retention strategy
