This week, college students’ persistence and retention rates are on the rise, another College Board official joins the FAFSA rollout team, President Biden’s student loan plan faces injunctions, and West Virginia University faces more cuts.
College students’ persistence and retention rates have exceeded pre-pandemic levels. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found a 76.5% persistence rate among students who entered college in 2022, up from 75.7% the year before and 73.8% among those who started in 2019, the group most affected by the onset of the Covid pandemic.
Jeff Olson, the College Board’s Chief Information Officer, is joining the Education Department’s efforts in launching next year’s FAFSA. Olson joins College Board president Jeremy Singer on the task force, which aims to ensure optimal performance for the 2025-26 form after last year’s disastrous FAFSA rollout.
President Biden’s new student loan repayment plan is in limbo after two federal judges issued separate injunctions against the plan this week. The plan, which impacts millions of Americans with student loan debt, will be put on pause while the judges consider lawsuits to end the policy.
West Virginia University is discontinuing five more academic majors as part of the state university system’s ongoing “Academic Transformation.” This announcement comes after the system’s Board of Governors cut 28 majors earlier this year, citing enrollment declines, inflation, and an increase in employee health insurance costs.
Leave a Reply