Category: Research/Policy

2011, College Affordability, Financial Aid, Research/Policy

Adding Important Transparency to Higher Education

By Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute/EPI International Happy Canada Day and Happy Independence Day everyone, In the late 1990s, I worked for the College Board and co-directed the Trends in Student Aid and Trends in College Pricing reports.  These reports, to this day, provide educators, researchers, and policymakers with a summary of how much college and university is and what available aid, … Continue reading Adding Important Transparency to Higher Education

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2011, Research/Policy, ROI/College Outcomes

The Implications of the New Gainful Employment Rule

By Dr. Peter P. Smith, Senior Vice President, Kaplan Higher Education The 6/21/11 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education contains a thoughtful essay by Frank Donahue on the new gainful employment rule. Donahue moves past the “won-lost” argument (i.e. the proprietary sector won) to the meat of the matter: what are the rule’s implications for the rest of higher education? He rightly concludes that, … Continue reading The Implications of the New Gainful Employment Rule

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2011, College Access, College Affordability, Financial Aid, Research/Policy

The Postsecondary Drive to For-Profit Mentality

By Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute/EPI International This is the opening paragraph of this morning’s article in The Chronicle of Higher Education: Texas A&M University faculty members who are alarmed by the apparent influence that a conservative think tank is having on their university urged the system’s regents on Thursday to distance themselves from a group that they fear would move … Continue reading The Postsecondary Drive to For-Profit Mentality

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2011, Research/Policy

The NCAA: Missing the Point of a Higher Education

By Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy  Institute/EPI International Many of my colleagues know that I am not a big fan of the NCAA. Of course, I am a hypocrite. When my alma maters make the March Madness (Old Dominion University and George Washington University), I climb on the bandwagon. As soon as they lose, I turn it off. But the truth is … Continue reading The NCAA: Missing the Point of a Higher Education

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2011, College Access, Research/Policy

For Your Consideration: The College Access & Success Enterprise (CASE)

By Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute/EPI International In the mid-1960s, as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the creation of the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Federal TRIO programs were created, originally consisting of Talent Search, Upward Bound, and Student Support Services. Together, these three programs targeted low-income students, many of whom were and are minority students. … Continue reading For Your Consideration: The College Access & Success Enterprise (CASE)

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