Reported by Inside Higher Ed, while there have been long-standing policies against providing U.S. student recruiters with commissions based on the number of students they are able to enroll - in attempt to prevent wrongful incentivization toward enrolling students unable to succeed at an institution both academically or economically - incentive-based commissions for international students have still been on the table.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, having approved a new test-optional policy just prior to the pandemic, IU Bloomington’s modeling had forecasted 15-20% of their applicants would choose to submit applications without test scores. With the ensuing pandemic, that number ended up being 47%.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, enrollment algorithms are only as powerful as what they’re optimized for. Tuition-driven institutions have an incentive to optimize for finding students who can pay. But in that situation, they might drive enrollment, while also driving students unable to academically persist.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, the College Scorecard’s program-level metrics may help program reputation become an even stronger signal than brand reputation. Because now, you can search for a specific degree program and compare graduate success rates, including income, debt, and more among institutions across the nation when making your college selection.

Reported by EdSurge, there are only roughly two dozen online degree programs offered throughout all the Ivy League schools together, with some institutions such as Princeton offering none at all.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, after receiving $1.2 million in funding from the American Rescue Plan legislation, roughly the same amount the institution typically charges in tuition and fees each year, Clinton President Lester McCorn decided to announce the free tuition year.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, while the pandemic led to many institutions forgoing ACT and SAT admission requirements this past year, as long as they still make up 5% of U.S. News & World Report’s rankings formula, can colleges forgo them altogether?

Reported by Fierce Education, Arizona State University has been a leader in the AI-empowered classroom through its learning design principles, including each student having unique learning needs, that students learn best by solving problems not watching others solve problems, and that lesson mastery must be demonstrated in order to advance.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, more than 90% of incoming first-year students are optimistic about their personal future. This study seems to be somewhat in contrast to other reports about 62% of first-year students experiencing anxiety in the past year, and less than 50% reporting to be optimistic about the United States as a whole.

Reported by EdSurge, Zoom’s open source development kit means that the education innovations may not come from ZOOM themselves. But rather from third-party building blocks to bring technological, interactive, and adaptive benefits into a synchronous remote classroom.