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The article discusses pressures on public higher education from massive budget cuts in 2010. It notes that state systems in addition to the well-publicized California system are suffering. The Nevada system, it states, has been hit hardest because of its nearly 60 percent predicted budget shortfall, the fastest rise in high school graduates in the country, and an already-existing college-pipeline problem. Its chancellor, Daniel Klaich, wrote publicly that the system faces closings of colleges, departments and programs, flight of professors from the state, and students being shut out of classes at community colleges. The article notes that some education policy leaders say public higher education is in peril as a system but it also notes positive action being taken by some schools.

The article discusses efforts by states in the South Atlantic region of the United States to raise college graduation rates. The area, which has seen high amounts of growth in high-school graduates in the 2000s, is faced with the question of which schools to place these students in. The region's public universities are attempting to balance competition from increasing amounts of applicants with efforts to enroll minority demographics that have historically been underrepresented on college campuses.

The article focuses on the developments in the higher education of the indigenous populations of Bolivia. The government of President Evo Morales began adopting policies that will make universities offer better services for the country's large indigenous underclass. The country joined several other Latin American countries in introducing changes in higher education designed to promote social and political agendas. Based on estimates, almost half of the students enrolled in Bolivia's 11 public universities are of indigenous origin.

The article reports that Canada's colleges and universities are looking for ways to recruit aboriginal students. The University of Toronto, Ontario is one of just a few dozen colleges and universities in Canada that tried to recruit and retain aboriginal students. Universities in western Canada have generally done the most to recruit aboriginal students, perhaps because they make up a larger part of the population than in the eastern part of the country. INSETS: The Only Aboriginal-Run University in Canada Is in Trouble;Students Flock to Aboriginal-Studies Programs.

Presents statistical information on issues affecting higher education in the United States. College enrollment trends; Population; Educational attainment of adults; Per-capita income; Poverty rate; High-school graduates; High-school dropout rate; Number of institutions; Average pay of full-time faculty members; Degrees awarded; Test scores; Average tuition and fees; Expenditures; State appropriations; State spending on student aid; Research spending by universities; More.

Discusses the state funding of flagship institutions in Texas. Overview of the master plans for the universities in California and Michigan; Information on the fund raised by the flagship universities in the state; Problem associated with demographics and student population.

Reports that Bradford College in Haverhill, Massachusetts will close on May 20, 2000. Inability to attract students amidst stiff competition; Overly optimistic enrollment prediction for the amount of money borrowed by the administration; Lack of clear marketing approach; Reflection of the struggles of small private colleges across the United States to recruit students; Decline of students attending liberal-arts colleges.

Discusses the future of small liberal-arts colleges in the United States. Challenge to increase enrollment; Case of Sterling College; Comments by Edward A. Johnson, president of Sterling College; Economics of small colleges; Question of why enrollment numbers are crucial; Chart showing the impact of size on college finances; Collaboration as key to survival. INSETS: Collaboration is Key to Survival of Small Colleges, Experts Say;Sterling College at a Glance.

Focuses on the increasing enrollment of foreign students at two-year colleges in the United States. Possible reasons for increase, including economic turmoil and increased competition; Recruiting efforts of two-year colleges to attract foreign students; Statistics by the Institute of International Education.

The article focuses on the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers, which will hold its first meeting in October 2007 at Vanderbilt University. The group, which has only 30 members and some graduate students, was formed by Kathryn T. Gines who comments on the low numbers and isolation that African American women philosophers confess to feeling. Joyce Mitchell Cook was the first African American woman to receive a doctorate in philosophy from Yale University in 1965. Sally Haslanger of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology discusses her own research into the demographic data of philosophy teachers in the U.S. and found that only about 19 percent are women but is unsure how many are African American.

The article offers an editorial on the role of technology in teaching. The author discusses an essay by Marc Prensky, titled "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants," which details the gulf between a generation that has been raised with high technology and a preceding one that hasn't. The author discusses changing teaching techniques to suit changing educational dynamics.

The article focuses on the existence of class distinction in higher education in the U.S. The nation's wealthiest and most selective colleges are failing to enroll large numbers of poor students. Never before have American colleges been asked to play a more crucial part in educating a generation of students for a global economy. The University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology all unveiled pricey new financial-aid policies and in doing so, acknowledged that they needed to work harder to enroll more poor students.

Discusses issues concerning the problems of admission staffs in several U.S. universities on predicting enrollment numbers as of July 2, 2004. Factor that contributed to the problem; Details of the new early-decision policy known as the single-choice early action at Harvard, Yale and Stanford universities; Reason the wait lists of less-exclusive colleges have become an important tool for ensuring that an adequate number of students enroll; Effects of merit-based aid university policy on students.

The article discusses disagreements between faculty and administration at various U.S. regional public college systems that have been brought on by drops in enrollment and drops in state funding to the colleges. Topics discussed include the impact of changing demographics on the colleges, protests held by college students over administration decisions, and the examples of the public college systems in Connecticut, Maine, and Minnesota.

Focuses on public university and college enrollment in South Africa as of June 4, 1999. Difficulties of enrollment, including slowed growth; Reasons, including lack of qualifications, lack of financial aid and an increase in the number of Africans studying abroad; Concerns; Enrollment statistics, according to a report by the Department of Education; Comments from Nasima Badsha, deputy director-general of higher education in the Department of Education.

The article profiles Jane Smiley ahead of her return to teaching at the University of California at Riverside in July 2014. Topics discussed include the ways in which student demographics at the university drew her back to teaching, her role in the creative writing program, and the views of program professor Tom Lutz.

The article discusses models of online higher education for the $500 million initiative proposed by U.S. President Barack Obama as part of a community college aid package in July 2009. The initiative envisions a free library of courses available to colleges nationwide. Models cited by Education Department officials include the Carnegie Mellon University Open Learning Initiative in which courses are created by national specialists and offer web-based lessons in advance of the classroom meeting. They include feedback from students so that the professor can concentrate in the classroom meeting on difficulties students express. Other models include the OpenCourseWare project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which offers course content for 1,900 courses online.

The article discusses education strategy in the United States during a global economic recession in 2009. The author analyzes education trends as reported by the American Council in the study "Minorities in Higher Education 2008: Twenty-Third Status Report," which shows that minorities in the 2000s are less likely to have greater educational achievement than previous generations. According to the author, in order for the United States to recover from the recession, politicians must ensure that educational opportunities continue to improve.

The article explores how the value of a college education is determined. Several factors that contribute to the success of students after graduation are considered in this context. These include their qualifications before they enter college, their access to faculty, and the income of their parents. It is reported that the percentage of students with Ivy League educations that go on to pursue their Ph.Ds or run large corporations is not greater than those who attend less prestigious universities. Several problems with the methods used to determine the value of a college education, especially with regard to the categorization of students who take non-traditional approaches to pursuing their educations, are noted.

The article discusses a report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, which found that the number of young college graduates in science are being produced in countries other than the U.S. The U.S. is first in terms of the number of adults with a college education but the educational attainment of U.S. citizens has remained steadily at 39 percent for decades. In other countries, the number has increased over that same period of time. Another problem identified by the report was that a sizable percentage of college students in the U.S. dropout.

The article discusses a report released by the Southern Regional Educational Board, which stated that black residents in the South are as well represented on college campuses as they are in the region's population as a whole. The report indicated that in the 16 U.S. states measured the number of black students enrolled in college has risen by more than half over a decade. According to the article black-student enrollment throughout the U.S. has lagged behind the students' proportion of the population. The article reports that most of the increases in enrollment occurred at public universities and two-year colleges, and not at historically black institutions.

This article reports on the efforts by colleges and universities to recruit more American Indian students to higher education, as they only make up 1 percent of the population of college student. Highlighted are the recent efforts by Syracuse University which has a spotted history with the Haudenosaunee nation, on whose lands the institution was built. They have created scholarships that will pay for students from the Haudenosaunee tribes as well as students living in tribes in Canada's Six Nations. Students must be fully enrolled and have a 2.5 grade point average. INSET: American Indian Students in Academe.

This article reports that according to a new report released by UNESCO, university students from sub-Saharan Africa are the most mobile in the world. "Global Education Digest 2006" reports that one out of every 16 of sub-Saharan students goes abroad for college. North American college students are the least mobile, with just one in 250 going abroad to study. The United States may send proportionally few students abroad, but it also plays host to the largest share--23 percent--of what UNESCO used to call foreign students and now refers to as mobile students. In 1999, 1.75 million students pursued higher education outside their home countries. By 2004 that figure had risen to 2.5 million. The report notes that the increase should be seen in the context of an overall explosion in higher education, concentrated largely in China, from roughly 92 million to 132 million students. The UNESCO report brings a new perspective to student mobility by looking at the phenomenon from the point of view of the countries that send students abroad. It gives a more complete picture of what proportion of the population is enrolled in higher education and where.

This article provides an overview of higher education in Alabama for the 2003-2004 academic year. The decision of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to place Auburn University on probation for one year due to concerns related to the role of the university's board of trustees in Auburn's sports programs and other areas; The no-confidence vote taken against the university's president, William F. Walker, and his later resignation; The actions by the National College Athletic Association against Auburn; Information about a change the selection process for trustees at Alabama A&M University; Demographic information about Alabama; Facts about Governor Robert R. Riley and other political leaders; Statistics about colleges and universities in the state; Average pay and other information about faculty members; Student enrollment; Tuition and other financial information about higher education costs in Alabama.

Reports that Canada's Ontario province will produce double the usual number of high-school graduates by 2003. Factors which contributed to the increase in the number of graduates; Estimated number of additional young people seeking places at Ontario universities for the 2004-2005 academic year; Estimated additional funding allotted to universities by the Ontario government as of June 2002.

Reports on international education-related news as of May 26, 2000. Details of a speech from Great Britain's education secretary, David Blunkett to the Association of University teachers on wealth disparity of college applicants; Questionability of a scholarship that Joel Hayward received at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand over the issue of the content of his thesis; The spread of political violence to the Bindura University in Zimbabwe.

Offers student-related news briefs for April 28, 2000. Princeton University's plan to expand its undergraduate enrollment; How the Web site StockGift.com allows students to register for shares of common stock.

Focuses on how University of Wisconsin approved a plan to increase its enrollment of minority students. Campus plans to establish recruitment efforts for minority students; Discouragement of enrollment goals; How the small student to faculty ratio makes it effective but expensive; Lack of specific commercial targets for enrollment; Opponents of affirmative action; Possibility of lawsuits.

Focuses on the increasing number of United States college students who are doing academic work in foreign countries. Statistics showing that the length of time that they study in foreign countries has grown shorter; Travels of majority of students to Western Europe, though Russia and Kenya were also popular destinations; Statistics from the Institute of International Education.

Focuses on enrollment of foreign students in Australian universities. Increase in enrollment of foreign students overall, but a decrease in enrollment for specialized intensive-English colleges; Survey by IDP Education Australia, the overseas student-recruiting arm of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee.

Focuses an increase in the number of foreign scholars doing research or teaching at major universities throughout the United States. Comments of several education directors; Possible influence of the increase in budget allocations for higher education; Statistics by the Institute of International Education.

Reports a decrease in the number of black students enrolled in doctor of philosophy degree (Ph.D.) programs in the sciences and engineering. Decrease of 20 percent between 1996 and 1997; Report released by the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Decline in the enrollment of Hispanic students; Increase in the number of minority bachelor degrees in the sciences and engineering; Comments of Shirley M. Malcolm, one of the author's of the report.