Higher education has benefits ranging from career development to skill building to network development—but it certainly can come at a high cost. The average cost of college in the U.S. is more than $35,000 per year, according to the Education Data Initiative. And these students average about $37,000 in student loan debt. Read more
Ten miles off the coast of Aberdeen in Scotland, five turbines tower over the North Sea. Read more
Preliminary data from the NSF indicate that COVID-19 hit Ph.D. production hard in 2021, but job-placement data are surprisingly rosy—just not in academe. Read more
In response to the University of Florida’s (UF) Search Committee’s decision to recommend Republican Senator Ben Sasse as the next university President, leftist professors took to Twitter to condemn the decision. Read more
Even as institutions offering mediocre engineering qualifications go out of business, private providers are expanding into the digital space Read more
Most major rankings services unveiled their best colleges and universities lists for 2022-23 a month ago, each touting their own measures of institutional value. One straggler, WalletHub, recently released its version before the Nov. 1 early-decision deadline, hoping to give students a look at which institutions could give them the highest quality for the lowest prices. Read more
Ivy League universities have signaled support for Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the Supreme Court prepares to begin hearings on affirmative action cases against both universities on October 31. Read more
TikTok is raising its minimum age for livestreaming from 16 to 18 from next month. Read more
A report explores how online learning leaders decide whether to use companies to deliver and manage their academic programs or handle the work in house. Read more
Not only are college history courses falsely alleging that America is a fundamentally racist nation, but the decline of Western Civilization has also resulted in the decline of Americans’ basic civics knowledge. Read more
