College grads sell stakes in themselves to Wall Street
To pay for college, Amy Wroblewski sold a piece of her future. Every month, for eight-and-a-half years, she must turn over a set percentage of her salary to investors.
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US essay mill firm targets new students through WhatsApp
A US firm is targeting first-year university students by infiltrating their private WhatsApp groups and offering to write essays for £7 a page, the Guardian can reveal.
Nearly a third of all college students still don’t have a degree six years later
America’s higher education problem is not a college enrollment problem.
U.S. immigration police broke Facebook rules with fake profiles for college sting
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) violated Facebook policy by creating fake social media profiles tied to the University of Farmington, a sham university it created to identify people committing immigration fraud.
Microsoft’s AI research with Chinese military university fuels concerns
Microsoft has been collaborating with researchers linked to a Chinese military-backed university on artificial intelligence, elevating concerns that US firms are contributing to China’s hi-tech surveillance and censorship apparatus.
Standardized test companies scramble to fix weaknesses
The testing expert, Mark Riddell, traveled across the country to take ACT and SAT exams for the children of the rich and famous, federal prosecutors said.
Rolling up the sleeves for apprenticeships
The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) is moving forward with its game plan to create 16,000 new apprenticeships over three years in partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).
At these high schools, enrolling in college isn’t just encouraged, it’s required
When Montel Floyd graduates in May from Merritt Community College, he’ll be the first person in his family with a college degree.
The silencing of academic voices in turbulent times
Academic freedom, which has existed since the early 1900s, is important to our democracy.
Online learning has a chief administrator — signaling a trend in distance education
A recent surge of higher ed chief administrator positions that involve spearheading web initiatives reveals that online learning is now mainstream.
