Enrollment Management 101: International Enrollment
Emily Genao
November 8th, 2007
A recent survey painted a mixed picture of international student enrollment in graduate schools. On the one hand, total international enrollment has seen its biggest increase in the last five years, jumping seven percent from 2006 to 2007. This compares to the one percent increase seen just one year prior. On the other hand however, the rate of growth for first-time enrollment has slowed down considerably. This parallels the decrease in admissions offers for international students as well. Yet this is not the total story either. The survey also showed that universities with smaller international enrollments saw the largest increases, when compared to universities who typically have large international enrollments.
Colleges Supporting Low-Income Students
Emily Genao
November 6th, 2007
In the wake of the recent controversy over student loans, leaders of 19 state university systems are spearheading efforts to make higher education more affordable to students coming from low-income families. The new initiative, Access to Success, will monitor improvement in college attendance and graduation rates among low-income students. Access to Success will have similar goals to the initiative for enhanced college rankings: more transparency, more dissemination of information.
Protecting Student Information
Emily Genao
November 1st, 2007
Colleges and universities across the country are taking steps in order to make their campuses safer for their students. But are they being fully protected? There have still been attacks on students, but of a different kind. Recently, many universities have been victims of data piracy, where student information has been stolen via hacking or just through the simple theft of university equipment. This raises many questions, including “Why is valuable student information so vulnerable?” and “What are schools doing in order to enhance security systems to prevent data breaches?”