CRHEO - Center for Research on Higher Education Outcomes

03/28/2018

As application numbers surge, admissions officers at some top colleges say they don’t have time to read an entire file. Now committees of two divvy up the file to shave time from the process.

03/27/2018

New study by CRHEO - Center for Research on Higher Education Outcomes' Greg Wolniak & Princeton University's Drew Allen examines impact of tuition increases on campus diversity. Nonselective institutions see the greatest decline in diversity as costs rise. https://ihenow.com/2DZSX2a NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

New study examines impact of tuition increases. Nonselective institutions see the greatest decline in diversity.

03/27/2018

“Many adults worry that if their kids knew that grades in school aren’t highly predictive of success in life, they’d lose their motivation to apply themselves and aim high. In fact, the opposite is true.“

Stop fretting about grades and prestigious schools

02/23/2018

"U.S. not-for-profit colleges and universities are segregating into winners and losers—with winners growing and expanding and losers seeing the first signs of a death spiral." Tough times ahead for schools that fail to prepare students for life after college...

For generations, a swelling population of college-age students, rising enrollment rates and generous student loans helped all schools, even mediocre ones, to flourish. Those days are ending.

01/11/2018

“...(E)ven though the best interests of students and taxpayers revolve around college access, affordability and graduation outcomes, too often presidents and boards are more focused on the rankings, reputation and popularity of the institution itself.”

Trustees must rein in frivolous spending at public universities.

12/14/2017

"Congressional plans to tax the endowments of wealthy private schools and the tuition benefits of graduate students have elicited outrage from universities and schadenfreude from Trump supporters. Missing in this outcry — and in the pending tax legislation — is a recognition of the long history of reciprocity between academia and government that has incalculably benefited society."

New taxes are not the answer. A radical reorientation of their mission is.

11/26/2017

Another reminder that education is always political. “In July, a Pew Research Center study found that 58 percent of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents believe colleges and universities have a negative effect ‘on the way things are going in the country,’ up from 37 percent two years ago.”

A Trump supporter explains rising conservative anger at American universities.

10/24/2017

“A student is a consumer of the product of education. Greater transparency is going to empower the consumer,” said Senator Charles E. Grassley in a recent interview on demystifying college costs. We couldn't agree more.

New bipartisan bills are aimed at forcing colleges to clear up a murky, confusing system so that prospective students understand the options.

07/12/2017

"It’s no wonder that 70 percent of the students in the nation’s 200 most competitive schools come from the top quarter of the income distribution."

College-educated Americans have become devastatingly good at making sure children of other classes can’t join their ranks.

06/01/2017

News coverage of differential tuition policies continues to grow. What effect the information will have on consumers remains to be seen.

Charging additional fees or higher tuition for costly majors has become common practice at public research universities.

05/25/2017

What will cutbacks in federal research spending mean for colleges and universities? CRHEO - Center for Research on Higher Education Outcomes' Gregory Wolniak weighs in.

The Trump administration wants to cut indirect-cost payments to universities that win research grants. That might not hurt Harvard, a witness told a House panel, but could hurt "the broad research mission."

05/10/2017

Ready for your Wednesday dose of news? Check out this InsideHigherEd feature by authors Nick Bowman, Tricia Seifert, Matt Mayhew & CRHEO - Center for Research on Higher Education Outcomes' own Greg Wolniak.

As students across the country prepare to receive their degrees, five authors explore how to increase their numbers.