Reported by Higher Ed Dive, as the fall term progresses and national COVID numbers get worse and worse, more colleges are ramping up their student safety policies to avoid facing a broader shutdown.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, the college readiness arm of Western Governors University, WGU Academy, has spun off into a separate nonprofit.

Reported by Higher Ed Dive, 75% of private colleges predict their net tuition revenue will decline in 2021 according to Moody’s Investors Service. And in this world, what happens? According to Edmit, more than 345 private nonprofit colleges could close within the next six years. Perhaps even sooner.

Reported by Education Dive, a new campaign designed to re-enroll students with more than 60 credits completed successfully did so with 123 ex-students this fall, bringing in roughly $385,000 in what would have been lost tuition revenue through this campaign.

Reported by Education Dive, while many institutions have sought growth through the launch of new market-friendly programs, a new Burning Glass report found that of the more than 10,000 programs launched in 2013 and 2014, fewer than half of those programs had more than 5 graduates in 2018, including 40% with zero graduates.

Reported by The Chronicle of Higher Education, Collin College President Neil Matkin has been criticized by faculty for announcing the death of one of their colleague’s at the bottom of an email titled, “Happy Thanksgiving!” suggesting this afterthought is emblematic of the institution’s broader attitude toward faculty health.

Reported by The Chronicle of Higher Education, with their campus currently open only for graduate students, President Christopher Eisgruber announced a “highly constrained on-campus experience” for their undergraduate students this spring.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that while there was a demonstrated decrease in student learning during the pandemic spring, the students who suffered the least were the ones in classes with planned peer interactions.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, while the early stress of the pandemic took a heavy toll on our faculty, a new study from Course Hero shows that its unceasing is driving many to consider leaving the field altogether.

Reported by Education Dive, one of the most interesting challenges on the table is solving videoconferencing specifically for the classroom. Because while platforms like ZOOM are great about getting everyone’s face on a screen, ZOOM wasn’t designed for universities.