Anti-tax organizations and a prevailing attitude among resident and politicians in many states that public dollars should not be used for higher education have led to states paying less of the costs for education at public universities.
That means the cost of going to college has shifted more and more to the student themselves.
Numbers from the Federal Reserve recently released show that the amount of student debt across the country has increased dramatically. At the end of 2003, the aggregate amount of student loan debt nationwide was $253 billion. By the end of 2013, according to the Federal Reserve, that number had reached $1.08 trillion.
Colleges and universities now try specifically to provide extra services to students who are related to the military in some way. Because of the large number of military service members, veterans and their dependents now attending post-secondary schools, colleges and universities now offer services specifically aimed at military students.
In a news release about the poll, Lumina Foundation president and CEO Jamie P. Merisotis said, “College degrees and other credentials are more important than ever, but times have changed, and the vast majority of employers in America put acquired skills far ahead of alma mater or major when it comes to hiring.”
A new survey to be released later this year shows that political leaders and some pundits may have overstated the public’s dissatisfaction with attaining higher education degrees that aren’t in …
The knock on online courses has often been the high drop out rate, but some courses are beginning to adopt changes that should help alleviate that problem. This is good …
As elite schools scramble to compete for the top students and attract (and pay) the best professors, they face an uphill financial climb. A recent National Public Radio (NPR) report …
A Rasmussen survey of 2,000 people who graduated from business-related university programs found only 10% were experiencing buyer’s remorse about the cost and effort of getting a business degree. Another …
Google is using its Google Capital investment arm to put $300 million into technology start ups, including $40 million into an online education software company. About $40 million of the investment money is going into Renaissance Learning Inc., a Wisconsin-based education software company.
Stanford University professors who are now two years into teaching Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) say they are starting to realize some of the promised potential of the online innovation.
Some also are reporting that they see less drop outs then they did in the first year of MOOCs.