Reported by EdSurge, Hope College is moving forward with piloting a pay-it-forward model where they “hope” (pun intended) their graduates who attend college tuition-free will become philanthropic partners and help pay for the next generation of students.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, while public institutions in California are comparatively affordable to public institutions in less expensive states, for graduate student Anna Holman, housing accounts for 70% of her income earned as a teaching assistant at UC Santa Barbara.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, much has been said in attempt to dethrone the U.S. News & World Report college rankings from coveted status.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, if a school were to ban the teaching of the concepts of evolution from their AP biology course for instance, AP may remove their authorization and the AP designation would even be removed from student transcripts who had taken the course.

Reported by WGME, eligible students must have a recent high school diploma, enroll full-time in an associate degree or one-year credential program, and be an active Maine resident.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, now that student-athletes can receive financial compensation off endorsement deals and other means, Adidas has built a widely open affiliate network for 50,000+ Division I athletes to get a revenue share from referring their social media followers toward Adidas purchases.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, many of these violations include proxy testing, where an individual takes the test for another student. Online testing options, made available during the pandemic, has likely made proxy cheating an easier option for potential violators as well.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, a new study from The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity shows that 60% of MBA students would have been better off financially having not entered the program. Whereas STEM degrees like master’s in computer science, engineering and nursing have the strongest ROI.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, this new proposal would cause institutions to lose access to federal financial aid if their graduating students enter the workforce with a lower starting salary than high school graduates in the state or too high a debt-to-earnings ratio.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, both MOOC platforms have suspended all content coming from Russian universities or partners on their sites, citing humanitarian reasons following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Students already enrolled in courses with this content will have 90 days to complete them.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, this includes HBCU Tennessee State University’s dual enrollment pathway for high school seniors, a new teaching apprenticeship program approved by the U.S. Department of Labor, and 65 total no-cost pathways designed to teach new teachers, including financial assistance for tuition, books and fees.

Reported by Forbes, the proposed University Rewarding Workforce Readiness Act would provide Missouri’s public universities and community colleges with performance scores based on several indicators, the largest of which would be the average of annual earnings of students from six to ten years after first enrollment.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, a new sense of empathy was his primary takeaway. While teaching a 101 class was not a new exercise for Krislov, the behaviors of his students was markedly different this year. Often through non-academic challenges, Krislov saw his students battling with very real distractions, including at-home responsibilities, family members with medical issues, and overwhelming mental health issues.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, the U.S. Department of Education announced a new policy that would hold the entities behind private institutions financially accountable for their students who experience poor outcomes.

Because many of our most talented faculty love working with our upper-level students on more advanced work. But perhaps we’re thinking about the sequence of operations wrong? Perhaps we need to go all-in on making sure that first class, that first semester, that first year is absolutely magical for our students. Where they feel deeply in love with the pursuit of learning and engagement. Where their intrinsic motivation to finish what they started takes root.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, a 50% mark would suggest there is no difference in economic outcomes between going to college and not. So at 60%, this ROI report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce is convicting and appalling. And when you drill into the numbers, you find that for 30% of all colleges, more than half their students earn less, and so many of them are also saddled with student debt and no credential to show for it.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, while Coursera may be best known for their MOOCs and recent certificate partnerships with Google, they also launched 13 degree programs this past year, bringing their total, in partnership with other colleges, to 38.