The following essay, co-written by Russ Poulin and Phil Hill, was originally published at Inside Higher Ed in response to articles in the New York Times and Inside Higher Ed regarding whether New York state should sign the SARA agreement. A coalition of consumer groups, legal aid organizations and unions object to the state of […]
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Inside Higher Ed: One year after selling majority stake in company
One year ago I wrote a post critical of Inside Higher Ed for not doing a blanket disclosure about the sale of a majority stake to a private equity firm with other education holdings (most notably Ruffalo Noel Levitz). Subsequent to the disclosure from the Huffington Post, IHE put up an ownership statement disclosing the ownership change […]
About Inside Higher Ed Selling Majority Stake
Update 1/21: See link and blurb at bottom of post from new Editor’s Note at Inside Higher Ed. Last week the Huffington Post ran an article by David Halperin breaking the news that the private equity firm Quad Partners had acquired a controlling interest in Inside Higher Ed. Quad Partners, a New York private equity […]
WCET Post on Distance Education Misconceptions
It is gratifying to see WCET pick up the mantle with their analysis of distance learning based on the new IPEDS data. They have several posts up already, and today’s post is quite good and important. If only more people jumping into the fray on higher education history and reform would start with a grounding in […]
Twice as many institutions as previously reported have no online courses
Recently I pointed out that the widely-quoted Babson survey on online learning estimates 7.1 million US higher ed students taking at least one online course while the new IPEDS data indicates the number as 5.5 million. After looking deeper at the data, it appears that the difference in institutions (whether or not an institution offers any […]
New IPEDS Data: A graphical view of online ed by state and by sector
Update: I should have guessed this, but the visualizations don’t come through on RSS feeds, so you’ll need to click through to the article. Reader Mike Himmelstein has rightly pointed out that our analysis of the new IPEDS data would benefit from using visualization tools instead of just tables. This comment led me to a […]
Clarification: No, there aren’t 7.1 million students in US taking at least one online class
I’ve written several posts recently looking at the new IPEDS data on distance education (for the most part equivalent to online education). In one post I pointed out [emphasis added]: Previously, the best data available on total student counts came from the Babson Survey Research Group with their annual survey (prior to 2012 called the […]