It seems like every day I open my email to news of another acquisition in the higher ed space, from LinkedIn acquiring Lynda.com for $1.5 billion to Blackboard’s sale price of $3.5 billion to MOOCs being…

In March, veteran women’s college Sweet Briar announced its closing, surprising the higher education world. And recently, Moody’s released a report announcing that it projects college closures to triple in 2017. While…

Big Data is big news; Harvard Business Review called data scientist the “sexiest job of the 21st century,” and some of the biggest names in higher education are launching programs in the field…

Higher education is at a crossroads. On the one hand, it is attracting more attention than ever, with recent initiatives proposed to make the first two years of community college free and institutions such as 55,000 Degrees working to increase the number of…