During his first semester as a consultant at George Washington University, Drew Amstutz comforted overseas students struggling with culture shock, reassured freshmen who panicked about bad grades, wrote down some students about underage drinking, and found a referral for another, who believed it was her…
The number of first-time graduates enrolling in American colleges has declined during the pandemic. This decrease is due to steep declines in the two countries with the largest shipments, China and India. The number of new graduates fell by almost 40 percent in autumn 2020…
The U.S. Fulbright Scholarship Programs and U.S. Fulbright Student Programs are sponsored by the Department of Education and Culture of the U.S. Department of State to promote academic exchanges between the U.S. and over 150 countries worldwide. Nearly 600 US higher education institutions are actively…
Three struggling Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education locations plan to pursue an increasingly popular strategy in higher education: building a new "virtual campus" to train working adults who have a college degree but no degree. In one [n interview with the Pittsburgh Post-GazetteDale-Elizabeth Pehrsson,…
Private, non-profit universities with a larger proportion of international students shifted their plans to reopen in the fall to offer personal tuition, according to a New Working paper based on data collected by the College Crisis Initiative at Davidson College. While previous research has examined…
ONBy around the middle of the fall semester, Jessica Floyd, a curly-haired student who was studying nursing at Central Methodist University, felt exhausted. She had studied four exams that week, so she didn't think about it too much. Then she did one of the regular…
On his first day in office, President Biden proposed immigration reform that would make it easier for international students graduating from science and engineering to stay in the United States, among other things. The legislation has been welcomed by high-level groups who have long called…
As colleges begin their spring terms, they’re still learning lessons about how students felt about the fall. One thing seems clear about the “new normal”: Students are struggling to make online classes work while worrying about their finances and their health. A new survey by…
The figure is startled. This year, 21.7 percent fewer high school graduates went straight to college than in 2019, according to a new study report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The changes from year to year are enormous. These are really amazing numbers.…
Jaime Ramirez-Mendoza worked as a peer advisor when he was a student at the University of California at Davis. Hence, he was familiar with guiding low-income students through the financial assistance process. Even so, he didn't know until shortly before he graduated that grant decisions…
