The National Student Clearinghouse’s enrollment report highlighted quite a few interesting factoids.

About 20 million students are enrolled at American colleges (Table 1) 7.7 million of them are over age 24 (Table 3) Women outnumber men by about 3 million (Table 4) Enrollment at for-profit colleges is down 7.2% from last year (Table 1) Tweet Continue Reading »

Who cares who gets RTT awards? Not Jay Mathews—but he’s willing to be proved wrong. (Class Struggle)

Is it longevity or student outcomes? Cuban asks: What defines great superintendents? (Larry Cuban)

Want to see the human side of “college- and career-ready?” (The Educated Reporter)

Cap enrollments and increase tuition?  Or cap tuition and increase enrollments? (IContinue Reading »

In the middle of an Insidehighered.com piece on Oberlin College’s recent effort to integrate the word “fearless” into their latest marketing campaign, we find this:

“The timing of this marketing effort coincides with a financial concern that is specifically mentioned in the strategic plan, which calls for an enrollment reduction of 163 undergraduate students by 20Continue Reading »