FinTech, the buzzword du jour to describe the intersection of financial technology and business, is defined by Emsi as, “technology and innovation that competes with
On January 14, three Democratic senators wrote to the CEOs of leading Online Program Management (OPM) companies. The senators fret that OPMs, a growing force in online higher education, may be jacking up tuition and siphoning off public funds with insufficient...
Bachelor’s programs have exploded in recent years. Between 2012 and 2020 alone, the market experienced a net gain of 7,749 bachelor’s programs across 38 broad fields of study according to NCES IPEDS data. That’s almost 1,000 new programs per year! New program...
60%. That’s the share of expenses that public colleges and universities devote to staff salaries and benefits. The ratio is similar at private schools, and neither figure has shifted much over time. Higher education, despite decades of IT spend, remains a...
Last fall, we cautioned against making knee-jerk programmatic decisions given the precarious economic environment we were in. At that time, we noted that the top six bachelor’s occupational categories with faster growth and higher salary projections remained unchanged...
With September in full swing, K-12 teachers have returned to the classroom. And after enduring a year of hastily designed remote learning or careful mitigation of in-person instruction, they were no doubt eager for a sense of normalcy. The only certainty ahead,...
