The University of Wisconsin System has released enrollment data that indicates there are significant educational gaps between veterans and non-veterans. Other states are likely to face similar issues in the near future as our soldiers continue to return home.

The UW study body includes 173,313 undergraduate and graduate students, 3,975 of which are veterans. The number of veterans enrolled at UW grew from 3,138 in 2006 and from 2,517 in 2005. While the entire UW student body increased by 2.1 percent in the past year, its veteran enrollment increased by 27 percent.

The university cites the number of soldiers returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the Wisconsin veteran reimbursement program as causes of the increase in veteran enrollment. The reimbursement program now covers 100 percent of tuition.

Veteran enrollment increases will continue at UW and could cost $41.8 million. The legislature will pay $9.5 million and the university will cover $14.2 million of the total cost, leaving $18 million left to be paid. Just whom will foot the bill for that remaining $18 million is still to be determined.

It will be interesting to see how UW and the rest of the country’s institutions of higher education manage to deal with so many veterans returning home with plans to study.

–Sara Elizabeth

Pulling an all-nighter may be more harmful to students than simply denying them sleep. According to study conducted by assistant professor Pamela Thacher of New York’s St. Lawrence University, all-nighters can affect student G.P.A.s.

The study included 120 students form the university and they were asked about their late-night study habits. Those reporting that they never pulled all-nighters averaged a G.P.A. of 3.1. Meanwhile, students admitting to all-night study sessions averaged a G.P.A. of 2.9.

While the difference in G.P.A.s is not a major one, the data shows that students are not able to think as effectively in the middle of the night. For students who are looking to gain that extra edge, get some sleep and make time for your studies during the daylight hours–an all-nighter may not be worth it.

–Sara Elizabeth

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As the 2008 presidential election race begins to heat up rather early, Democratic and Republican candidates alike are taking their positions on the costs of higher education. While Democrats tend to believe that community college should be free-of-charge, while Republicans tend to want a decrease in the federal government’s role in education, but also want to make higher education more affordable to more families.

Democrats including John Edwards, Chris Dodd, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton and Joe Biden have created plans that will cover all or some of the cost of community college tuition. Some also plan to cover fees and other costs. Candidate Bill Richardson has devised a plan that involves two years of loan forgiveness for tuition and fees at all academic levels in return for national service.

Edwards is promoting a “college for everyone” initiative which covers the cost of one year of public-college tuition, fees and books for more than two million qualifies students. Meanwhile, Obama has come up with an $18 billion plan for grammar-school education to prepare students for college. He includes a $4,000 tax credit which is available for each year of school to use toward college costs.

The Republican camp has also created its own group of plans. They are generally against free higher education and are focused on how the government can lessen the financial burden on families. For example, Mitt Romney has spoken out on decreasing taxes on dividends, capital gains and interest for families that earn $200,000 per year or less to help parents save money for college.

John McCain has plans to lower taxes to make college more affordable. Rick Huckabee is against education tax credits due to the expenses involved, and believes that students should earn tuition assistance.

–Sara Elizabeth

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The National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (Naciqi) is a federal panel managed by the U.S. Department of Education, whose staff has recommended that the panel approve all recognition requests for college accreditation.

Colleges need accreditation for students to be eligible for federal loans.

There is a session planned for December 18 and 19, during which the panel will consider the recommendations. The Naciqi panel has been known to disregard staff recommendations in the past.

–Sara Elizabeth

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Some of the country’s most prestigious colleges have been attempting to make higher education more affordable to the average American family.

For example, Duke has reduced loans for families with annual incomes of up to $100,000. In addition, schools such as Williams College, Davidson College and Amherst College are removing loans from all student financial-aid packages.

Harvard has recently made huge strides to cut costs and will continue to do so next fall. The university has cut loans from all student financial-aid packages and is reducing the price of tuition for families with annual incomes of up to $180,00. The school no longer takes home-equity loans into consideration when calculating family income. Next fall, a family that makes $180,000 per year will pay 10 percent, or $18,000.

–Sara Elizabeth

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Students may have a lot to lose if they download and upload their music and movies illegally if a new proposed federal law is implemented. The Chicago Sun Times reported this weekend that the House Education and Labor Committee approved a proposed law that will result in students losing federal college funding as a result of music and movie copyright infringement.

H.R. 4137, the College Opportunity and Affordability Act, is a 747-page bill that contains a section on Campus-Based Digital Theft Prevention. Section 494A, if implemented, will require colleges to offer students legal alternatives to illegal downloads and peer-to–peer distribution.

Under the bill, noncompliant schools could stand to lose all student federal funding. Schools will be forced to use alternative, for-profit companies for obtaining music and movies online. However, who will pay for the subscriptions to these downloading services? In addition, some college may have to resort to using filtering software, which can compromise student privacy rights.

So why are colleges the target of the music and movie industry? According to the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America, colleges are a major source of copyright infringement and students are the most common offenders.

Is this the best way to tackle illegal downloads?

–Sara Elizabeth

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The Council of Graduate Schools has released a report that indicates Ph.D. attrition rates are dropping, but not in the humanities. During the past few years there has been concern over the fact that many students never complete their Ph.D. programs.
Ph.D. programs in the humanities tend to take longer to finish than programs in other fields. Many students working toward a Ph.D. in the humanities have not completed their degree after 10 years. Two-thirds of engineering students finish their Ph.D.s in 10 years.

After seven years, most engineering and life science students have finished their Ph.D. requirements, while 30 percent of humanities students do not finish in seven years.

While there are obvious issues in some academic fields, the report is a step in the right direction to improve Ph.D. completion rates.

–Sara Elizabeth

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An interesting survey has been released in the new issue of the Journal of Family Psychology, entitled “If You Want Me to Treat You Like an Adult, Start Acting Like One!”

The survey indicates that 18- to 25-year-olds may not be considered adults, even by those 18- to 25-year-olds themselves. When surveyed, just 16 percent of mothers and 19 percent of fathers considered their 18- to 25-year-old children to have reached adulthood. Even more notable is that only 16 percent of college students within that age bracket consider themselves to be adults.

Brigham Young professor Larry Nelson says that students in this age bracket are in an “emerging adulthood” phase, and that parents and children need to better communicate.

When asked what they considered evidence of having reached adulthood, students listed financial independence, living outside of their parents’ home and a strong career. Meanwhile, parents answered the same question by saying that responsible behavior with drinking, drugs, driving and sex is an indicator of adulthood. Students and parents did agree on something–both listed self-reliance as a characteristic of adulthood.

–Sara Elizabeth

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Given the United States’ goal to increase participation in college study abroad programs, this is not a good time for the dollar to be losing value to the euro. Colleges and universities are now attempting to find ways to make studying abroad affordable for students from all backgrounds, while facing less-than-stellar currency exchange rates.

Brian J. Whalen, president of the Forum on Education Abroad, told the Chronicle of Higher Education that study abroad costs have risen 10 to 15 percent in the past few years, due to the declining dollar.

According to the Institute of International Education, Europe attracts 58 percent of American study abroad students. However, schools are beginning to adopt study abroad programs with untraditional destinations like countries in Asia and Africa, instead of the ever-popular European countries. Since Western Europe converted to the euro, even more popular destinations have become too expensive for some students.

To make study abroad affordable in a world in which the dollar is weak, schools have been cutting back on certain activities and side trips usually associated with their study abroad programs. They have also been using reserve funds to keep study abroad fees down, diverting some of their cash flow.

As the dollar flounders, students are expected to favor the less expensive, shorter study abroad programs that are available. They will also likely continue to study in countries that have not been the most popular destinations in the past.

–Sara Elizabeth

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The New York Times ran an interesting article about student application trends in the United States that indicates applicants’ concerns about how to “market” themselves to colleges and universities.

Just as corporations and institutions of education before them, college applicants are feeling that they, too, must brand themselves in order to gain acceptance into the school of their choice. Applicants are being seen as products, and applicants are being encouraged by paid counselors and coaches to market their experience and skills to colleges.

This may not seem so terrible, especially considering applicants always want to expose colleges to their best work and attributes. However, the Times likens this push to brand applicants to turning students into “so many marketable boxes of cornflakes.”
Applicants have always struggled to “sell” themselves to schools and to set themselves apart from the masses of other students applying for acceptance. This newer notion of branding oneself to gain college acceptance has taken it to another level. These days, many students end up participating in activities not because they enjoy them or are passionate about them, but only because it will help to market themselves to schools.

The article attributes much of this applicant branding trend to the fact that there are so many applicants, as well as so many applicants to popular, renowned colleges. Schools need to find some way in which to comb through all of those applications and as a result, applicants are often reduced to one-sentence slogans by which they are evaluated.

–Sara Elizabeth

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