Bond rating agencies forecast financial challenges for US higher education in 2021
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Two bond rating agencies on Tuesday issued pessimistic outlooks for the U.S. higher education sector for 2021 as the coronavirus pandemic continues to strain enrollment and revenue, heighten long-term pressures, and hit certain types of institutions harder than others.
Read More about Bond rating agencies forecast financial challenges for US higher education in 2021Report: College enrollment rate drops for recent high school graduates
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The COVID-19 pandemic doesn’t seem to have affected high school graduation rates. But it appears to have impacted how many of those graduates went straight to college. New data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center show that nearly 22 percent fewer students went to college immediately.
Read More about Report: College enrollment rate drops for recent high school graduatesStudents from lower income families most likely to cancel or change college plans amid pandemic
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Students’ incomes appear to have had major impacts on whether they continued at community colleges or left completely during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new analysis from the Community College Research Center at Teachers College of Columbia University. The analysis used U.S. Census Bureau data.
Read More about Students from lower income families most likely to cancel or change college plans amid pandemicSome college graduates turn to trades education amid pandemic
THE HECHINGER REPORT — A lot of people have invested time and money getting four-year degrees only to return for career and technical education in fields ranging from firefighting to automation to nursing, in which jobs are relatively plentiful and salaries and benefits comparatively good, but which are faster and far less costly.
Read More about Some college graduates turn to trades education amid pandemicVermont Law considers move to Burlington
VALLEY NEWS — Officials at Vermont Law School are working on a strategic plan to restructure the state’s only law school and keep it in South Royalton, but relocating the campus to Burlington is also under consideration, the chairman of the VLS Board of Trustees said on Monday.
Read More about Vermont Law considers move to BurlingtonDepartment of Education cuts result in staff reductions in student loan servicing
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Education Department said that “with payments now suspended for millions of borrowers, we understand that servicers have reduced their staffing numbers. However, when repayment begins and servicers must resume their normal servicing activities, we are confident that they will return to pre-COVID staffing levels.”
Read More about Department of Education cuts result in staff reductions in student loan servicingAlbany Law dean Alicia Ouellette reflects on the fall semester
ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — This semester was unprecedented, but the Albany Law community remained engaged, flexible, and resilient. We adopted new ways of teaching and learning as students and faculty attended classes both in person and remotely. Albany Law offered in-person opportunities while keeping the community safe.
Read More about Albany Law dean Alicia Ouellette reflects on the fall semesterA look at the Penn Law Center on Professionalism’s transition to virtual programming during the pandemic
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Center on Professionalism kicked off its fall programming, adapting it to function entirely in a remote, online setting. COP has adjusted its usual live-event programming to function entirely online.
Read More about A look at the Penn Law Center on Professionalism’s transition to virtual programming during the pandemicPenn Law professor Christopher Yoo contributes to report on education after COVID-19
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — In collaboration with the members of the UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, a University of Pennsylvania Carey Law research team led by John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science Christopher Yoo helped lead and draft a Report.
Read More about Penn Law professor Christopher Yoo contributes to report on education after COVID-19No “folly,” no “Potemkin Villages,” no “wildfires”–a semester of in-person hybrid legal education
Excess of Democracy (By Derek T. Muller) — Professor Muller (University of Iowa Law) describes his experiences teaching an online/in-person hybrid class and pushes back on those that said hybrid classes would be a disaster.
Read More about No “folly,” no “Potemkin Villages,” no “wildfires”–a semester of in-person hybrid legal education