About 239,000 apprenticeships were created in 2018, a 40,000 increase from 2017, though experts say more are needed to properly train students for skilled trades and other jobs. On Community College Daily.
Kevin Guskiewicz's involvement in a dispute over allowing another professor to teach a class on college athletics and student rights has already sparked criticism over the Board of Governors's choice. On Inside Higher Ed.
Dismissing other elite schools, even though they share a similar culture, is a way for students to jockey for position and status. On The Atlantic.
Ideology is closing off academic inquiry on topics like religion and gender, which encourages scholars to self-censor rather than debate ideas. On Quillette.
A lack of vocational programs and missing communication between colleges and businesses mean that many rural graduates rarely stick around. On the Hechinger Report.
Art schools are struggling to avoid closure, especially small colleges who deal with the brunt of shrinking enrollments and the difficulty of finding funding. On Inside Higher Ed.
Kevin Guskiewicz, the dean of the college of arts and sciences, will run Chapel Hill as the UNC Board of Governors searches for a replacement. On the Carolina Journal.
Jefferson Community College in New York designed a program for veterans to engage with the humanities and process their experiences in foreign wars. On the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Treating college as a requirement means fewer students think about their career path and many assume a job is easy to find after graduation. On FEE.
Though they do worse in online classes, weak students are more likely to take them, making it less likely that they'll complete a degree or get the extra help they need to succeed. On the Hechinger Report.
