The latest buzzword in higher education is “completion.” It combines the idea of enrollment growth with what we used to call “retention"—that is, getting more students into college and then keeping ...

With all of the president’s preaching, lawmakers’ legislating, and foundations’ financing, you might expect college-completion rates to be inching up, at least slightly. But a report out this week ...

Despite the growing popularity of online learning among postsecondary students, several reports last year, including one from the online education company LearnDash, found that the average completion ...

It feels like an ocean’s worth of ink has been dedicated to the rising cost of college. From press coverage to the latest public opinion polls to the drumbeat of proposals for “free college,” you ...

A new report shows that a set of reforms can increase college completion rates, but that for certain groups of students, gaps in completion still remain. The percentage of college students completing ...

A recent st u dy has found that instructors and the teaching practices they use—or don’t—are more than twice as influential in predicting learning outcomes than students’ prior academic performance.

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” –Niccolo Machiavell ...

College completion is perhaps the most commonly used metric to gauge student success. Although there have been some improvements in the past decade, gains in college completion have not been ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The Joe Biden Administration’s proposal for student debt relief has sparked a ...