Reported by EdSurge, historically the cost of building an AI tutoring tool – up to 1,000 faculty hours – may not be worth the time you’d save by creating one.

Reported by EdSurge, while more than 60 colleges now offer income share agreements that provide for student loan financing payback dependent on the student’s post-graduate income, student awareness of these programs still appears to be low, and their skepticism high.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, with research showing that students are more likely to complete transfer-level math and English courses if they can earn credit for them, California created a bill in 2018 which restricts community colleges from requiring remedial courses, which has only produced slight traction on this problem to date.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, the institutions who were the most ready for an immediate transition to online learning were the institutions who had already experienced significant disruption in the past, often midwestern schools due to weather events. But many of the rest of us found ourselves ill prepared.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, more than 1/3 of prospective college students are reconsidering higher education. Is that true for the market’s incumbent workforce as well?

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, according to a new survey by Anthology, nearly 90% of students plan on re-enrolling at the same college this spring they attended in the fall. This despite more than 32% of students saying they didn’t “feel included” in a friend circle and 27% purporting to not feel a part of the “college community.”

Reported by EdSurge, Vista Equity Partners CEO Robert E. Smith, who paid $34 million to settle the loan debt for Morehouse College’s graduates back in 2019, has now set up the Student Freedom Initiative, designed to provide financial support for HBCU students through income-based financing.

Reported by EdSurge, prior to the pandemic, according to the Community College Research Center, nearly 2/3 of entering community college students lacked the math and language skills necessary for college-level placement. And prior developmental education interventions have proven less than effective, with only 28% of community college students who take a developmental education class earning their degree within eight years.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, the CDC has urged for the consideration of college campuses as vaccine administration sites. Often located centrally, and with large square footage in campus parking lots, dining halls, and residence halls, colleges could play a critical role in helping to immunize not only their own campuses but the broader community.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, Wentworth Institute of Technology faculty’s response to plans for increased in-person instruction this spring was a vote of no confidence in the institution’s president and administration.