Reported by the Hechinger Report, with two consecutive years of 3%+ enrollment drops, we’re looking at the largest two year higher ed enrollment decline in the past 50 years.

Reported by EdSurge, more than half of high schools now offer at least one computer science class, with many states now making computer science courses a requirement for high school graduation. But with computer science courses comes technology requirements that can affect representation. Economically disadvantaged students are still underrepresented in CS courses. As are our Latino students. And girls make up only 31% of these classes, too.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, the Build Back Better Act, which originally included Biden’s education plan centerpiece in free community college, went from $290 billion in planned funding down to $40 billion. The Pell Grant increases and support for minority-serving institutions such as HBCUs stayed, however.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, while income-based loans are designed to keep one’s loan repayment affordable through alignment with their current income, some low-income participants report that this simply ends up ballooning their total debt, since their income can’t cover the loan principal, and they feel trapped.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, a new research article from the Journal of Advertising suggests that religious language can adversely impact a student’s confidence in the quality of the same university's STEM programs.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, Yale’s incoming enrollment has stayed relatively flat for the last 40 years, despite their application rate having 3x’d over the same time period.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, many university endowments went wild last year with the positive movements in the stock market, including Washington University in St. Louis, who earned a whopping 65% return during the 20-21 fiscal year.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, while 98% of students had been vaccinated prior to the Sept. 27th deadline, that still left 5,903 students at risk of deregistration at The State University of New York.

Reported by EdSurge, start-up Argos Education is building an open-source system called Sojourner that allows institutions and instructors to both aggregate a la carte teaching materials for their courses more easily, and also sell the same ones they themselves create.

Reported by EdSurge, the wicked cross-disciplinary problems of our time require wicked cross-disciplinary students. And the College Impact Survey out of The Ohio State University shows that 86% of PhD candidates expect to work on wicked, cross-disciplinary problems within their grad programs. But do they?