About Project Compass
In April 2007, the Nellie Mae Education Foundation launched Project Compass, a multi-year regional initiative to help more underserved students succeed in and graduate from public four-year institutions of higher education in New England. This initiative supports innovative institutional programs and strategies that strive to eliminate achievement gaps and significantly increase academic success, retention, and graduation rates for undergraduate students of color, low-income students, and those who are first in their family to go to college. As the intermediary of the Foundation, the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) designs and manages project activities, convenes regular grantee meetings, and provides technical assistance to each of the four grantee institutions: Bridgewater State College (Bridgewater MA); Eastern Connecticut State University (Willimantic CT); Lyndon State College (Lyndonville VT); and the University of Maine at Presque Isle (Presque Isle ME).
Registration is now open for the upcoming AAC&U conference, "General Education and Assessment: Maintaining Momentum, Achieving New Priorities," on February 18-20, 2010 in Seattle, Washington.
(6)Registration is now open for the upcoming AAC&U conference, "General Education and Assessment: Maintaining Momentum, Achieving New Priorities," on February 18-20, 2010 in Seattle, Washington.
(6)Recent College Grads Face Record Debt and Unemployment
New report includes state-by-state and campus-by-campus student debt averages for class of 2008. The Project on Student Debt
College seniors who graduated in 2008 carried an average of $23,200 in student loan debt. Meanwhile, unemployment climbed from an already challenging 7.6 percent in the third quarter of 2008 to 10.6 percent in 2009. See average student debt and the share of students borrowing for all 50 states and four-year public and private nonprofit colleges and universities in the U.S.
Kevin Brown discusses some of the major differences between state college faculty and research university faculty behavior.
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