Reported by Higher Ed Dive, a new study from the Bipartisan Policy Center shows that 96.3% of public institutions provide students with a positive median return on investment vs. only 89.5% of private nonprofits.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, in response to a 2010 study showing Idaho had the lowest rate of college attendance out of any state, with only 45% of high school graduates enrolling directly into college, the state began offering a direct admissions system into state universities.

Reported by Inc.com, Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently announced a $100 million Google Career Certificates fund, which will fund additional services like career coaching, living stipends and job placement support through income share-like agreement (ISA) programs run by non-profit Social Finance.

Reported by Knowledge@Wharton, students at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania utilize game-based virtual scenarios to engage in real-life business scenarios, stress included.

Reported by Campus Technology, the wild growth in higher ed cyberattacks and ransomware payouts last year have started to hit our insurance premiums. And therefore, these insurers are the ones insisting we update our network security so they’re not backing a sitting cyber duck.

Reported by eCampus News, the higher ed workforce became permanently altered during the pandemic, with many institutions at least much more location-flexible with their workforce than they had been prior.

Reported by The Brookings Institution, chat may have been the best thing to happen to the classroom. Rather than sitting passively and listening to an instructor speak, what we saw during the pandemic was the chat functionality becoming the live public square during instruction.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, MIT has ended their relationship with Skoltech, the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.

Reported by Inc.com, labor market changes during the pandemic forced employers to be more flexible in their hiring practices. And one of those flex points? The bachelor’s degree requirement.

Reported by The Hechinger Report, 61% of student fathers are dropping out of college with some credit and no credential, a full 13 points fewer than the 48% completion rate of student mothers. For single Black and Latino fathers, this drop-out rate is even higher, at 70%.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, Middlebury College made the decision to recall a dozen students studying in Russia earlier this month, allowing them to finish the semester remote. While other institutions are moving students to other locations throughout Eastern Europe.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, The University of Missouri made a change to their rules and regulations allowing for individual tenured faculty salaries to be cut by up to 25% for reasons including enrollment or individual productivity.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, the key difference between McDaniel College’s legacy admissions program is that, unlike other legacy admission policies that have been criticized for their ability to help non-academically qualified progeny skip the line, McDaniel isn’t difficult to get into. With a 76% acceptance rate, the $30,000 legacy grant is equal to the same grant it offers the children of all veterans and educators who work at a K12 school or community college.

Reported by Digital Journal, while NFTs obviously have interesting design applications that are already being explored and incorporated within art departments nationwide, Duke University has also started awarding certain educational credentials as NFTs.

Reported by The Hechinger Report, the University of Texas System is looking to pilot a program designed to provide microcredentials to students from degree programs that don’t often have an immediate salary payoff after graduation.

Reported by The Hechinger Report, inflation is very likely coming for our tuition prices at the same time enrollments are deeply down.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, the Articulation of Credit Transfer project, coordinated by Ithaka S+R, is attempting to salvage the 43% of credits lost when students transfer to a new program and/or institution.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, California’s service program, Californians for All College Corps, will provide eligible students $10,000 in exchange for 450 hours of volunteer service work a year, roughly $22/hour.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, a survey from Anthology showed 44% of students picked an institution closer to home than they may have before the pandemic.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows that 6-year college completion rates reached 62.2%, up 1.2 and 1.5% respectively from the previous two cohorts.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, state senator Dave Cortese is proposing $500/month payments to low-income students at three California State University campuses as a pilot experiment, spurred by findings from the San José State University’s Silicon Valley Pain Index report, which showed the food and housing insecurity of local populations, including up to 14,000 CSU students with family household income of up to $20,000.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, Central Michigan University recently notified 58 students that they were recipients of the prestigious Centralis Scholar Award that, among its benefits, includes a full-tuition scholarship.

Reported by EdSurge, and suggested by San José State University professor Roxana Marachi, if credentialed records on the blockchain are attached to a student, does a student have any semblance of data privacy or the right to be forgotten?

Reported by Nerd Wallet, an estimated 813,000 Pell-eligible high school graduates didn’t submit their FAFSA last year.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, while online learning offers peak convenience for the working adult, it can also be isolating learning alone.