Reports & Articles 

01/06/2015: Outsourced Trial Period, by Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed - Rather than just shutting its virtual doors to applicants, Western Governors University has begun referring underprepared students to StraighterLine, an unaccredited online course provider that does not offer degrees.

01/04/2015: Republished - Developmental Education: A Policy Primer, by Robert H. McCabe, League for Innovation - As a tribute to Bob McCabe, this month The League for  Innovation republished his February 2001 Leadership Abstracts article, "Developmental Education: A Policy Primer." The article reports on findings from the National Study of Community College Remedial Education, which he led.

12/19/2014: Raising Ambitions: The Challenge in Teaching at Community Colleges, by Ginia Bellafante, The New York Times - Three years ago, Eduardo Vianna, a professor at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, had a student who passed an entire semester without speaking in class. Like many others, the student, Mike Rifino, had come to LaGuardia requiring remedial instruction.

Reports & Articles  

01/05/2015: Matching the 'Undermatched', by Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed - Ever since a 2012 study found that a majority of high-achieving, low-income high school seniors don't apply to a single competitive college, educators and policy makers have been debating what to do about "undermatching," as the issue has come to be called.

12/18/2014: Analyzing Colleges' Graduation Rates for Low-Income Students, by Robert Morse and Diane Tolis, US News & World Report, Education - U.S. News data show which schools succeed at graduating students with Pell Grants.

01/04/2015: Partners Unite to Build Petroleum Processing Pilot Plant at Del Mar College, by Michael Bratten, The League for Innovation - An unprecedented public-private partnership is bringing a petroleum processing pilot plant to Del Mar College that will be used to train technicians for well paying careers in burgeoning industries. Essentially a working model of a distillation unit like those at the petrochemical plants and refineries that dot the landscape near the Port of Corpus Christi, the facility arrives during a perfect economic storm.

01/03/2015: Apprenticeship Programs Fill Gaps in American Manufacturing, by Chris Fleisher, TribLIVE - Apprenticeship programs are more rigorous than standard job-training, and offer an education many put on par with a college degree. Apprenticeships combine several years of practical training with class work that includes math, science and technical instruction.

12/22/2014: The Impact of Technological Change in Education, by George R. Boggs, Community College Week - This new environment is a significant departure from the lecture hall of the 1960s and 70s, where rigid seating made it almost impossible for students to interact with one another and where students in the back row may never have asked a question or been called upon.

12/03/2014: State University of New York at New Paltz: MakerBot Innovation Center, Campus Technology - SUNY New Paltz, one of the nation's most open, diverse, and artistic universities has launched the very first MakerBot Innovation Center. Comprising more than 30 MakerBot Replicator 3D Printers, SUNY New Paltz not only built a cutting-edge center for students to learn and experiment with 3D printing, but they also created a vibrant creativity hub for the wider New Paltz community.

12/01/2014: Unleash the Power of Video on Your Campus, Campus Technology - Successful institutions, large and small, have discovered this and rely on a video management platform to support their academic missions, broaden reach, cater to individual student needs and maintain an attractive campus environment that keeps the university's competitive edge.

01/09/2015: Two Years of Free Community College, by Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed - The proposal, dubbed America's College Promise, would be a matching grant program. The federal government would pay for 75 percent of the "average cost of community college." That means covering tuition and fees upfront, White House officials said, rather than the total price of attendance. Participating states would be required to cover the remaining tuition balance.

01/05/2015: UPDATED: New State Report Cards Illustrate Effects Of Disinvestment In Public Higher Education, Young Invincibles - Ahead of the 2015 state legislative sessions, Young Invincibles analyzed several government and education datasets to assess the impact of state disinvestment in public higher education across the country. The results are striking. More than 30 states received an "F" in appropriations for higher education, while nearly 20 states received an "F" in tuition. In fact, 47 states spend less per student today than they did before the Great Recession; while tuition at 4-year public universities has increased by 28 percent - two times the rate of inflation.

12/22/2014: State's Higher-ed System Faces Declining Enrollment, Budget Cuts, HartfordBusiness.com - Q&A talks about challenges Connecticut's higher education industry faces in 2015 with Gregory Gray, president of the Board of Regents for Higher Education, which governs 17 state colleges and universities, including 12 community colleges, and Charter Oak State College.

12/19/2014: Employment and Earnings Weighed in Obama's College-rating Plan, by Nick Anderson, The Washington Post - In response to those who worry ratings could be skewed in favor of colleges with lots of graduates who strike it rich, the Education Department is weighing a proposal to set an earnings benchmark for recent graduates and former students that it calls "substantial employment." That could be 200 percent of the poverty level, the department said, or a multiple of the full-time minimum wage projected over a year.

12/18/2014: Gainful Employment and Higher Ed Funding: Investing in Programs That Work, by Gail Mellow, HuffPost - It's time we look to them as the most obvious source of funding to support our public colleges and start investing our money into a system that we know works.

01/06/2015: Short-Lived Transfer Degrees, by Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed - Drexel University last January earned praise for expanding a transfer program that brings the university's faculty members to local community colleges. But Drexel is phasing out the program less than a year later.

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