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This week, Columbia University said it would no longer provide information for the U.S. News and World Report’s decades-old rankings list of colleges and universities. The high-profile dropout follows a parade of prestigious law schools and medical schools that said they’d no longer participate. Francie Diep, senior reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education, joins John Yang to discuss.
Most college students say a “good job” upon graduation is a priority, yet 72% of graduates struggle to find work. “Designing Career Services for the Future” examines the disconnect and offers ideas for higher-ed leaders moving forward. The session is a partnership between The Chronicle and the University Innovation Alliance.
Most college students say a “good job” upon graduation is a priority, yet 72% of graduates struggle to find work. “Designing Career Services for the Future” examines the disconnect and offers ideas for higher-ed leaders moving forward. The session is a partnership between The Chronicle and the University Innovation Alliance.
Academic advising is more important than ever. In The Future of Academic Advising, a panel of experts examines recent research from the University Innovation Alliance and shares how colleges can use data to be more proactive in their approach.
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they want to be on their college campus. that's according to the chronicle of higher education. lindsey reiser is at the university of california berkeley and nick daniels, the president of purdue university and former republican governor of indiana, joins us now. lindsey, i want to start with you. how is this going to work for students? >> the uc campus system is huge, stephanie. there are more than a million students, 33 campuses. they will require vaccines for the fall but only once one of the companies gets upgraded from emergency authorizations. full approval from the fda. across the bay at stanford, they will require vaccines for all incoming students in the fall and they just lifted their outdoor mask mandate. schools are still trying to figure out how to navigate this. one school across the country in new jersey is offering tuition incentives in addition to the vaccine requirement. like you mentioned, a chronicle of higher education shows 412 college campuses will be requiring these vaccines by the fall and also according to their analysis, it appears mostly
“If you are a public college president, getting on the wrong side of a governor or state legislature can be a career-ending action,” said Terry W. Hartle, senior vice president at the American Council on Education. Even so, Michael A. McRobbie, the president of Indiana University, whose flagship campus is in Bloomington, said he did not feel pressure to decide either way. “Less than 50 percent of the university population has been vaccinated,” he said. “The medical advisers who were involved in this don’t see how we can return to a normal state of affairs without the mandate.” Long before any university had announced its plans for the fall, Nancy Cantor, the chancellor of Rutgers’s campus in Newark, remembers getting a weekend call from the university’s chief operating officer, who wanted to know if she would support a vaccine requirement.
For Colleges, Vaccine Mandates Often Depend on Which Party Is in Power Hoping for a return to normal, more than 400 colleges and universities are requiring students to be vaccinated for Covid-19. Almost all are in states that voted for President Biden. Saint Mary’s College in Indiana was one of the first colleges in a Republican-controlled state to require that students be vaccinated against the coronavirus next school year. Credit...Carlos Javier Ortiz for The New York Times May 22, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET For more than 400 colleges and universities, it is being billed as the ticket to a normal year on campus: Require all students to be vaccinated for the coronavirus before they can matriculate next fall.