The select company of 8-year degree holders
Most college students don’t graduate “on time,” especially in public institutions. That is, many require five years, or six, to get their bachelor’s degrees; or three years to obtain their associate’s....
View ArticleMore bad news on the pay-to-learn front
Close to 40 percent of U.S. students in four-year colleges fail to complete their studies in six years. The dropout problem, one of the nagging challenges facing the higher ed establishment, is...
View ArticleCollege graduation rates: more fodder for parents
When high school students are narrowing their college choices, which schools rank higher in their parents’ eyes? The colleges with higher graduation rates, apparently. According to a study issued by...
View ArticleTools to boost diploma production
The Obama administration last week issued a list of targets that states have to meet if the nation is to attain the president’s ambitious goal that the United States have the highest proportion of...
View ArticleCoaching as a form of dropout prevention
Colleges all over are determined to increase their completion rates, and no wonder, considering that on average, the six-year graduation rate for students in four year programs is just 57 percent....
View ArticleUVM, St. Mike’s: Graduation rates above expectations
The better a student’s record in high school, the more likely that student is to complete college. There are other factors, too, that go along with high rates of college graduation – parent who went to...
View Article‘Priced Out’: lower-income college students in Vermont
Lower-income students are being shut out of higher education institutions all over, thanks to flawed, inadequate financial aid policies that fail to provide equal access. That’s the gist of a new...
View ArticleVermont tops the nation again — in debt per degree
Colleges can be readily compared for sticker price, for net price, and for graduation rate. Now comes another “metric,” courtesy of Education Sector, a Washington think tank: the “borrowing to...
View ArticleThe academic/football honor roll
Penn State finally got some good publicity last week with the release of the Academic Bowl Championship Series rankings. This is an annual compilation by the New America Foundation’s Higher Ed Watch...
View ArticleCommunity colleges’ completion problem
Community colleges have been getting an earful this week from both ends of the political spectrum. First came a report by Gary Rhoades, former general secretary of AAUP and co-founder of a new think...
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