Reported by Higher Ed Dive, for the vast majority of stop-outs and drop-outs, their decision is almost always a financial one. So when UNC Charlotte shrinks the gap in 6-year graduation rate between Pell Grant recipients and not from 14.1% to 3%, it’s time to take notice.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, the ASU-Starbucks Center for the Future of the People and the Planet will open later this year on Arizona State University’s campus.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, West Texas A&M president Walter Wendell recorded 3,000 personalized congratulations videos to admitted students designed to improve their yield.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, perhaps it’s because they stayed open in-person all throughout last year? There were seemingly large risks in that decision. But a year of “normalized” student experience? Campus visit opportunities remaining open throughout the year? Those ended up being very unique advantages last year. And St. Norbert may see a 33% year-over-year first-year enrollment lift because of it.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, Southern Utah University’s $9k bachelor’s in general studies designed for degree completion students attracted 111 students for the pilot this past fall, with hopes of eventually enrolling several thousand students.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, offering eight bachelor’s degrees costing $299 per credit hour puts it 10% more affordable than Southern New Hampshire University and 33% more affordable than University of Phoenix.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, proponents of test-optional admissions for equity reasons are celebrating a new study published in the American Educational Research Journal, suggesting a 10-12% increase in first-time enrollment from underrepresented minority students in the first few years after a college moves to test-optional admissions.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, the perfect storm of test-only admissions, more students than ever applying to selective colleges, and colleges not knowing how to precisely forecast for an uncertain fall has created a new ‘waitlist generation’.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, students aged 19 and older who changed residences during the pandemic reported a 49% reduction in their drinking last year, compared to a 21% reduction among students who maintained their residence.

Reported by EdSurge, the new framework is designed to determine: after 10 years of earning a college degree.