Ivy Tech’s enrollment statewide has grown more than 70 percent since 2007. But the school hasn’t built any new permanent classroom space since then, leaving the statewide system more than 800,000 square feet short of space.
Remediating students who enter college without college-level skills costs the state $35 million a year, Indiana higher education officials say — but only a quarter of these students will earn a diploma within six years. Time to rethink remediation? From The Augusta Chronicle: Thousands upon thousands of students don’t continue in college because they don’t pass [...]
Last month, we asked whether for-profit universities are “diploma mills” or just convenient scapegoats for the nation’s mounting student debt. But wouldn’t a diploma mill produce — well, you know — diplomas?
For-profit colleges may be taking their lumps these days, but federal data released last week suggest community colleges have a problem of their own: Students aren’t meeting their own goals for earning degrees. Compared to the early 90′s, more community college students entered school this century aspiring to degrees higher than a bachelors’, the data show. [...]
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