Higher Ed News
May 22, 2014
College Board Recommends Improvements to the Pell Grant
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May 15, 2014
Temple University’s Innovative Plan to Improve On-Time Graduation and Reduce Debt
Temple University recently created a new partnership between students and the university to help students graduate on time and limit the amount of debt they accrue. Under the program, called “Fly in 4,” if an undergraduate student fulfills a set of requirements aimed at promoting on-time completion, but is still unable to graduate within four…
May 9, 2014
Great Expectations: Accenture College Graduate Employment Survey
Accenture recently released the results from their annual college graduate employment survey. The survey polls more than 2,000 students, including recent graduates and prospective graduates. Similar to last year’s findings, the 2014 report claims that on average, prospective college graduates are overly optimistic when it comes to their opportunities for training and prospective level of…
May 7, 2014
Stanford Announces It Will Divest from Coal Companies
On Tuesday, Stanford’s Board of Trustees announced it “will not directly invest in approximately 100 publicly traded companies for which coal extraction is the primary business, and will divest of any current direct holdings in such companies.” Furthermore, Stanford stated it would encourage its external investment managers to avoid investments in such companies. The decision…
May 2, 2014
55 Institutions Under Investigation for Possible Title IX Violations
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April 21, 2014
International Graduate Applications Increase, But Countries of Origin Shift
The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) released its annual survey of international student applications on Thursday, which revealed that the number of international student applications to U.S. graduate schools increased by 7 percent in 2014 and, for the second year in a row, Chinese applications fell slightly, while those from students in India soared. Chinese…
March 20, 2014
Small Changes Made to Draft Gainful Employment Rules
Over the past few months, we have been following the Department of Education’s attempts to overhaul the controversial gainful employment rule legislation on this blog. This week, the Department moved closer to releasing a final version of the law. Its new set of draft rules is very similar to that released in December, in that…
March 13, 2014
House and Senate Reach Agreement on Supplemental Operating Budget
*Although the conference budget cuts state funding by $7.3 million, it also reduces the amount employers can spend on benefits per employee per month to $622, which essentially offsets the cut. † The $1,200,000 figure is an estimate until OFM sends additional instructions.
March 5, 2014
President Obama Releases His FY2015 Budget
Yesterday, March 4th, President Obama submitted his fiscal year 2015 budget request to Congress. The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) has published their analysis of the budget as has the Education Policy Program at New America. TICAS states that the President’s proposal “takes important steps towards making college affordable for Americans by reducing the need to…
March 4, 2014
Updated House and Senate Supplemental Budget Brief
We have updated the OPB brief we posted on February 27th, to reflect additional information regarding the employee health insurance related agency reductions. Both the House and Senate budget would decrease agency contributions for employee health benefits. The House budget cuts state funding by $7.6 million and the Senate budget cuts state funding by $4.4 million. However, both…
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