by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Jan 12, 2021 | All Topics, Snapshot
Q. Will the Biden Administration turn its sights to regulation of OPMs, or can they breathe easily? While higher education oversight efforts under Obama were wide-ranging, for-profits were often the target, notably with the Gainful Employment rules requiring...
by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Jan 5, 2021 | All Topics
In the wake of COVID-19, momentous and completely unexpected, it might be tempting to go big on higher education predictions for 2021—an alien invasion perhaps? But higher education is battling quite enough drama to get pulses racing over what might—or might...
by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Dec 8, 2020 | Adult Learner Demand, All Topics
COVID-19 has humbled prognosticators everywhere: an impossible-to-predict global pandemic has impacted higher education in 2020 far more than anything this rusty analyst’s musing could conjure in the halcyon days of last January. A year ago, my first of three annual...
by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Dec 1, 2020 | Adult Learner Demand, All Topics, Program Innovation, Student Success, Traditional Student Demand
At the recent Eduventures Summit Virtual Research Forum, I presented an eye-popping chart showing the longstanding surge in higher education instructional and student services spend this century. Instructional spend at public four-year schools grew 140%, but student...
by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Sep 22, 2020 | Eduventures Summit
“I’m sure everything will be back to normal by June.” When the pandemic hit in March, Eduventures Summit 2020, originally scheduled for June, seemed a long way off. As the situation worsened, we moved the date to November. Now, in lieu of an in-person event, we are...
