UHD : Higher Education Headlines: October 4

Pasadena TX

13 October, 2021

12:56 PM

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Press release from the University of Houston-Downtown: October 04, 2021 Get your daily dose of higher ed headlines. Just a click away. Tomlinson: In Today's Labor Climate, Bachelor's Degrees Are Overrated Houston Chronicle[Subscription Required] Earning a Degree has Become More Difficult as Tuition Increases, Which Has Houstonians Pondering Its Worth Houston Business Journal[Subscription Required] Rice Researchers Hope to Turn Trash Into Earth Elements – In Less Than a Second Houston Chronicle[Subscription Required] Student-Housing Sector Back in Session with Occupancy Growth, Institutional Investors After Rocky 2020Houston Business Journal[Subscription Required] NRLB Memo Says Athletes at Private Universities are Employees. Here's What That Could Mean for Schools. Houston Business Journal[Subscription Required] UH Professors Develop Intranasal COVID Vaccine Houston Chronicle[Subscription Required] The Truth About Strategic Plans The Chronicle of Higher Education[Free Subscription Required] Leader of Prestigious Yale Program Resigns, Citing Donor Pressure The New York Times[Subscription Required] Harvard Business School Suspends Most in-person MBA Classes and Networking Events after COVID-19 Outbreak The Wall Street Journal[Subscription Required] University Endowments Mint Billions in Golden Era of Venture Capital The Wall Street Journal[Subscription Required] One State's HBCUs are Seeing More Interest From Adult Students The Chronicle of Higher Education[Free Subscription Required] The post-pandemic future of college? It's on campus and online. The Washington Post[Subscription Required] States Will Need to Pony Up for Biden's Free College Plan Inside Higher Ed[Free Subscription Required] These A re The 25 Fastest Growing Colleges In The U.S. Houston Business Journal[Subscription Required] The Betrayal of Historically Black Colleges The Chronicle of Higher Education[Free Subscription Required] Do algorithms lead admissions in the wrong direction? Inside Higher Ed[Free Subscription Required] About the University of Houston-Downtown The University of Houston-Downtown (UHD)—the second largest university in Houston—has served the educational needs of the nation's fourth-largest city since 1974. As one of four distinct public universities in the University of Houston System, UHD is a comprehensive four-year university led by President Loren J. Blanchard. Annually, UHD educates more than 15,000 students; boasts more than 60,000 alumni and offers 44 bachelor's, nine master's degree programs and 16 fully online programs within five colleges (Marilyn Davies College of Business; Humanities & Social Sciences; Public Service, Sciences & Technology; and University College). UHD has the most affordable tuition among four-year universities in Houston and one of the lowest in Texas. The University is noted nationally as a Hispanic-Serving Institution, Minority-Serving Institution and Military Friendly School. For more on the University of Houston-Downtown, visit www.uhd.edu. This press release was produced by the University of Houston-Downtown. The views expressed here are the author's own.