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As college prices rise and the unemployment level of college graduates remains at usually high levels, many parents and students are asking more questions about what a degree from a specific college will do for them after graduation. Too many of today’s college students are drifting and struggling to launch after graduation. That’s why we [...]

There is a place for purely practical training programs after high school, writes Jeff Selingo, but the question is whether they belong at expensive four-year colleges.

My recent post on why the campus experience still matters in an age of digital learning prompted an outpouring of comments. One consistent theme was that the face-to-face experience might be superior, but it is increasingly out of financial reach for a growing segment of students and their families. No doubt about that. We all [...]

Lost in the debate over MOOCs is that they are an important evolutionary moment—not a revolutionary development—for the future of academe, writes Jeff Selingo.

Talk about the future of higher education often reminds me of The Jetsons, the 1960’s era cartoon that imagined a tomorrow of flying cars, homes hovering in space, robot maids, and holograms. College will certainly be different in 20 years, but my belief after spending a year and half researching a book about the future [...]

The lack of consensus about what the higher-education system in the United States should be producing, writes Jeff Selingo, is largely to blame for the pressures facing colleges today.

A meeting on the future of academe had all the right players in the room, writes Jeff Selingo. Now we just need to get them to talk with one another instead of at one another.

Prestige and quality are often conflated in higher education, writes Jeff Selingo, leading colleges to be risk averse.

High-school graduates would be more likely to profit from higher education if they first took part in structured, maturing projects that could be designed by colleges. Here are some ideas.

If large universities fail to improve their first-year courses they might just find themselves out of the business of education for the first two years of college, writes Jeff Selingo.