Rating Higher Education – An Update From Higher Learning Commission

If you are looking to energize a room full of college and university presidents, few issues are as effective as President Obama’s plan to develop a rating system of higher education institutions. Complaints come fast and furious. The idea – which speaks to the value of an education – unnerves many educators. At the Higher Learning Commission’s annual…

Calculating Deferred Gratification

How confident are you with economic and career forecasting? Recently I had a fascinating conversation with a smart community college student keen on pursuing a career in health care. The first in her family to attend college and an immigrant to the United States while in high school, she told me that she loves the…