It’s Halloween season. And ghosts are beginning to appear everywhere… including ghost students. No, not college co-eds dressed up in their scariest outfits for a night out with friends, but scammers who enroll in college just to defraud your institution (and the student loan system) out of millions. Yes, millions. It’s a problem that’s been...Read More

1,421%. That’s the increase in Gen Z enrollments in trade school programs over the past eight years. If you operate a trade school (or career-based college), these numbers, while indeed staggering, may come as no surprise… Gen Z is the toolbelt generation, after all, and has been enrolling in trade programs at historic levels. However,...Read More

Ask any high school student (or adult for that matter) if there’s a shortage of skilled tradespeople, and they’ll say yes, there is. And they’re right. As evidenced by the incredible “booming jobs market for skilled tradespersons”, noted by Forbes[1], and the rising pay for people who have those skills… there has indeed become a...Read More

College enrollment numbers for Fall 2025 have been good. Early estimates show 19.57 million undergrads are ready to hit the books: up about 290,000 students from the Fall of 2024. Now, new data from the National College Attainment Network (NCAN) show Free Applications for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for the high school class of 2025...Read More

The ultimate goal of educators is to give students the knowledge base they need to land a good paying job. And in today’s jobs market, that knowledge base is changing. You see, it wasn’t that long ago that employers, nearly every good employer, demanded their job candidates have a four-year college degree to even be...Read More

There are over 3 billion page results for the following Google query: Can college students take online classes from another school? 3 billion page results! Meaning college students may be interested, or are very interested in fact, in taking your online courses, while still enrolled in their current college. But can they? Are they even...Read More

In 2010, 70% of high school seniors went on to enroll in college. By 2014, that number dropped to 66%… And now, only about 62% of them enroll.[1] The numbers are grim, for sure. But it gets worse. See, besides the smaller percentage of high schoolers matriculating into college, the size of the high school...Read More

Perhaps now more than ever, students of all ages, including adults, are looking for an education that can lead directly to a good job… without having to amass gigantic student loan debt. Because of this clear trend, career educators, trade schools and tech academies are having field day. Today, only about 25% of American adults...Read More

For the past two or so months now, DOGE (or the department of government efficiency) has been trimming some fat from the federal government. It’s been Elon Musk’s goal to reduce waste by as much as $1 trillion. Now, while some DOGE cuts are probably warranted, others may not be. Time will tell. But regardless...Read More

From the failed and delayed 24-25 FAFSA launch in the spring, to the successful and early 25-26 FAFSA launch in the fall… From encouraging overall college enrollment growth numbers, to a title wave of college budget cuts and closures… From the promise of student loan debt forgiveness, to the courts mostly thwarting the idea… From...Read More