Here are links to recent news on college access and success.
by
Joe Rottenborn
Executive Director, Mahoning Valley College Access Program (MVCAP)
1. California weighs college aid for illegal immigrants, by Alan Gomez: http://usat.ly/o0dN4x#.Tm9FcqvaMLc.twitter via @USATODAY - "The bill, passed Sept. 2 by the Legislature, would give illegal immigrant students about $40million in financial aid and fee waivers."
2. Part 2: Answers to Your Back-to-School Admissions Questions, By ROBIN MAMLET and CHRISTINE VANDEVELDE: http://nyti.ms/qQaygR - "Q: ACT or SAT? Is there really any preference among top colleges like Vanderbilt and Emory or should a student just take the test they are better suited for?"
3. Forget Who's No. 1 or No. 138: How to Use the U.S. News Rankings, by Jacques Steinberg: http://nyti.ms/oghZBd - “So buyer beware,” Mr. Reider concludes, “but it’s potentially of value, if you use it intelligently.”
4. Default Rates Up Again, by Libby A. Nelson - Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/na4O2g via @AddThis - "The two-year "cohort" default rate, which represents the proportion of federal loan borrowers who entered repayment between October 2008 and September 2009 and had defaulted on their loans by the end of September 2010, increased to 8.8 percent, the highest such rate since 1997. The rate increased 1.8 percentage points from fiscal 2008. And while students in all sectors were likelier to default on their loans than they had been the previous year, defaults increased the most at for-profit colleges: 15 percent of borrowers from those institutions defaulted in 2009, compared with 11.6 percent in 2008."
5. 'Imagine HBCUs Differently' by Kevin Kiley - Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/oJp2hd via @AddThis - "Since becoming president in January, Brown has launched a series of initiatives designed to tackle some of the largest problems threatening Alcorn State and some other historically black colleges and universities, such as stagnant enrollments; low retention and graduation rates, particularly among black males; financial instability; and a lack of student interest in what such institutions tend to offer."
6. Report: Top college athletes worth 6 figures, by FREDERIC J. FROMMER -http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g0a73PgzYlJtmqQdAE2aR7kWjsbw?docId=1546da5da23a4997b2c516cd64c3cdb1 -"A national college athletes' advocacy group and a sports management professor calculate in the report that if college sports shared their revenues the way pro sports do, the average Football Bowl Subdivision player would be worth $121,000 per year, while the average basketball player at that level would be worth $265,000."
7. Out-of-State Universities: Finding Bargains, by Lynn O'Shaughnessy - http://moneywatch.bnet.com/spending/blog/college-solution/out-of-state-universities-finding-bargains/6581/ via @cbsmoneywatch - "Typically outsiders need to be stellar students to receive scholarships from flagship universities, but many other state universities will give nonresidents, who are smart, but not at the top of the academic heap, a cut in price."
8. Inside School Research: U.S. Postsecondary Edge Shrinking Among G-20 Countries, by Sarah D. Sparks - http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2011/09/us_postsecondary_edge_shrinkin_1.html via @educationweek - "The United States still leads the world in having a college-educated workforce, but it is the only country among the G-20 members whose incoming workers are less educated than those retiring, according to a study released this morning by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development."
9. Student Loan Default Rates Rise Sharply in Past Year, by Tamar Lewin: http://nyti.ms/oJIw9Z - "At public institutions, the rate was 7.2 percent, up from 6 percent, and at not-for-profit private institutions, it was 4.6 percent, up from 4 percent. . . . Although for-profit colleges, which typically serve low-income students, enroll only about 10 percent of the nation’s undergraduates, Mr. Kvaal said, their students made up 150,000, or almost half, of the defaults."
10. For-Profit-College Group Releases Code of Conduct With Protections for Students, by Kelly Field -http://chronicle.com/article/For-Profit-College-Group/128963/ - "The standards, which will be enforced by a foundation created by the coalition, require colleges that sign on to the voluntary program to provide prospective students with "clear and accurate" information, in writing, on program costs, completion rates, employment outcomes, and student-loan default rates. The standards also require colleges to disclose whether a program provides industry certifications or qualifies students for professional licensing exams."
11. U.S. News & World Report's Shocker-Free 2012 College Rankings, by Kayla Webley - http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/09/13/u-s-news-and-world-reports-shocker-free-2012-college-rankings/ via @TIMENewsFeed - "Nevertheless, here are this year's 10 Best Colleges in the Nation:"
12. Read The Joe Rottenborn Daily ▸ today's top stories on college access and success via @rottenbornj ▸ http://t.co/x7cmxSo
No comments:
Post a Comment