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How Job Automation Influences Prospective Students

by Clint Raine, Eduventures Client Research Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Feb 23, 2021

For years, think tanks, academics, and journalists have sounded the alarm about the transformation of the modern workforce through job automation and artificial intelligence (AI). The question posed has always been “when” rather than “if.” When will new technologies...

The Noncredit Market Curse: Adventures in a Parallel Postsecondary Universe

by Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA | Feb 16, 2021

“What is going on in the noncredit market?” This has always been one of our clients’ toughest questions. Noncredit courses and programs are seemingly always both part-of-the-furniture—gathering dust in some obscure corner of continuing education—and about to come out...

How Student Mindsets are Shifting in a Pandemic Recruitment Cycle

by Kim Reid, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Feb 9, 2021

The college enrollment landscape is unsettled this year and so too are long-held student decision frameworks. A recent Inside Higher Ed article revealed that a 1% increase in student use of the Common App is creating a 10% increase in application volume for Common App...

Meet the New Generation of At-Risk Students

by Johanna Trovato, Eduventures Senior Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Feb 2, 2021

The first fall semester of the COVID-19 pandemic is over, and according to over 5,000 freshman respondents in the Eduventures Student Experience Survey, it wasn’t how they imagined college. A striking one out of five students said they were—at best—unsure about their...

A Look Under the Hood of OPM-Powered Master’s Programs

by Michael Miller, Eduventures Senior Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Jan 26, 2021

Master’s degree programs are the bright spot in an otherwise bleak forecast for the wider degree market. In a year where undergraduate enrollment has fallen more than 4%, master’s enrollment is up 3.5%. As schools assess their online program strategies, however, they...

Improving Technology Predictions by Focusing on Student Agency

by James Wiley, Eduventures Principal Analyst at ACT | NRCCUA | Jan 19, 2021

We all love making predictions. They help us deal with uncertainty, which has undoubtedly come into sharp focus over the past year. The issue with predictions, however, is that they are often wrong—some glaringly so. And those involving higher education technology are...