Sun.Dec 31, 2023

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Men Are Driving Enrollment Declines - Johanna Alonso, Inside Higher Ed

Ray Schroeder

While the number of women aged 18 to 24 in college has decreased by 200,000 since total college enrollment peaked in 2011, the number of men in that age bracket has dropped by a million during that time period. Men currently make up 42 percent of all 18- to 24-year-old college students, down from 47 percent in 2011. The shift has not impacted community colleges, where men make up approximately the same portion of traditional-age students as they did in 2011.

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The rights and wrongs raised by an exam marking boycott | Letters

The Guardian Higher Education

David Mead says there is a strong case that deducting pay may be unlawful as well as morally indefensible, while Prof Colin Bailey of Queen Mary University of London says it will not accept disruption to its students’ education Aditya Chakrabortty’s article shed welcome light on some of the horrendous industrial relations practices in the higher education sector ( The miserly tale of how a university took its staff’s wages – and the public paid the price, 22 December ).

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Cutting 1 of 6 positions at UW-Oshkosh saved $15M, but there's still a $3M shortfall - Kimberly Wethal, Madison.com

Ray Schroeder

In a letter to faculty and staff Friday, Chancellor Andrew Leavitt wrote the estimated budget shortfall had decreased to about $3 million. It’s still a “significant gap,” Leavitt wrote — larger than the projected shortfalls at four of the other Universities of Wisconsin campuses as of August — but UW-Oshkosh has plans to make up the rest of the shortfall by June 2026.