
At a time when colleges, like much of the nation, are experiencing deep political and social upheaval, it’s easy to become distracted — and reactive. Our 2018 Trends Report outlines 10 key shifts in higher education, and offers case studies, analysis, and ideas to help college leaders stay informed. Instead of putting innovation on hold, some leaders are seizing the opportunity to respond to pressing problems in imaginative ways — making a stronger case for the value of a degree, removing obstacles to graduation, helping improve job prospects for doctoral candidates, and more. Our report will tell you how they’re doing it.
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Inside the Trends Report
Find out how innovative college leaders are responding to 10 key shifts in higher education. -
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Colleges Are Under Fire. They Must Learn How to Weather Attacks.
Why higher ed has become an easy target. -
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The Uninvited Guest
Provocative political speakers have set their sights on colleges. Whether the firebrands get their stage or not, the cost to colleges can be high. -
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Who’s in Charge on College Campuses? Students
Demographic, institutional, and political changes are putting more power in their hands. -
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Supply of Students Is Up Nationally, But Some Regions Face Scarcity
Thirty-four states are expected to have more high-school graduates in 2025-26 than they did 13 years earlier. -
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More International Students Are Choosing Other Countries for Study Abroad
Their enrollment in American colleges is leveling off – and not just because of Trump. -
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International Student Enrollment: What the Data Show
How much growth is slowing, and which countries send the most. -
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Can Peer Review Be Saved?
The problem facing universities in 2018 isn’t so much that peer review has inevitably evolved, but that scientists collectively have failed to respond with a better replacement. -
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Tamiflu and the Limits of Peer Review
The $20-billion controversy surrounding the influenza vaccine illustrates the problem of relying too heavily on published articles as a measure of scientific reliability. -
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A Year of Rolling Back Rules
A chronology of some of the Trump administration’s key deregulatory steps affecting higher education. -
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A Small Sum Can Make a Big Difference in Student Success
Whether someone graduates or drops out can come down to as little as a thousand dollars. -
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Advice: 6 Steps to Help First-Generation Students Succeed
A young university that serves low-income and Hispanic populations closely monitors students to ensure they graduate on time. -
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The Benefits of Testing a Program in Different States
A project coordinated across 11 states will shed light on how policy variables affect the success of completion grants. -
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What’s Different About Recent Hazing Deaths
Fraternity deaths drew intense media coverage in 2017. But will that prompt real change? -
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2017 Hazing Deaths on University Campuses
Andrew Coffey, 20, of Pompano Beach, Fla., was a civil-engineering student and Pi Kappa Phi pledge at Florida State University. He died in early November at an off-campus “big brother night” party that the fraternity’s executive committee had organized. According to court records, he consumed a… -
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These Ph.D. Programs Pay More Than Lip Service to Alternative Careers
Doctoral programs have an urgent directive from students, the public, and the professors who run them: It’s time to change. -
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Advice: Prepare Your Ph.D.s for Diverse Career Paths
Academic jobs may be drying up, but the need for scholarly thinkers is greater than ever. Here’s how graduate programs can ready Ph.D.s for alternative careers in the professional workplace. -
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Colleges Rush to Ride Data-Science Wave
New interdisciplinary programs spring up to meet job-market needs, but do they make sense? -
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Advice: How to Encourage Data-Driven Discovery
Colleges must provide an intellectual infrastructure that supports data analysis in a broad range of fields. -
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Why Many Black Colleges Are Seeing Record Enrollments
Strategic recruitment plays a big role in the resurgence. -
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Building Relationships Through Social Media
As prospective students become increasingly digital natives, so too should higher-education leaders. That’s one of the ways black college leaders are expanding their flocks.