The yr’s largest larger ed tales — to date

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With the ultimate weeks of the yr approaching, we at Greater Ed Dive took a glance again on the tales and tendencies which have resonated most with our readers in 2022 — and a few of the insights which can be essential to grasp.

A couple of themes emerged. School leaders are clearly involved in regards to the well being of the sector within the face of long-unfolding modifications in who’s enrolling, the place they arrive from, and the way a lot they’re prepared to pay. Tales on faculty closures are continuously massive information. So too is protection of how establishments are working to draw new college students sooner or later.

The regulatory atmosphere captured consideration this yr thanks largely to at least one massive case, a just lately accredited $6 billion settlement within the Candy v. Cardona debt forgiveness lawsuit. This in all probability shouldn’t be a shock, because it matches into the Biden administration’s emphasis on pupil mortgage reform and entails a very noteworthy set of circumstances, together with allegations of wrongdoing by faculties, claims the U.S. Division of Training didn’t do its job, and billions of {dollars} in pupil mortgage forgiveness.

A couple of different main information themes stored displaying up: questions on the way forward for ed tech and for-profit larger training, the now-powerful admissions test-optional motion, and blows towards the faculty rankings system that’s at present dominated by U.S. Information and World report.

We curated hyperlinks to tales overlaying these tendencies and insights. The ensuing record, offered beneath, isn’t ordered by reputation, though it’s made up of lots of our best-read items. As a substitute, it spans our strongest information protection, characteristic tales, opinion items and working lists of essential developments in working information tales. Taken collectively, we consider it showcases a few of our greatest work whereas additionally offering a chance to replicate on the previous yr and put together for the brand new one because it approaches.