Dive Brief:
- Stanford University President John Hennessy, who warned two years ago that a "tsunami" was heading for higher ed, says institutions must use technology to boost their productivity, as calculated by degrees per dollar.
- Massive open online courses won’t become a mainstay of private education, he told the Washington Post, but MOOCs are part of the larger movement of using online technologies aggressively.
- Hennessy says he supports California’s affirmative consent, “Yes means yes” law for combating campus sexual assaults.
Dive Insight:
While some may have written off his "tsunami" warning of a few years ago, Hennessy tells the Washington Post that we are likely just seeing the ripples from ashore.
Hennessy says the federal government could do three things to improve higher education: Hold a school accountable for its students’ outcomes by having it share the financial burden of its students’ loan defaults or their federal grant aid when they don’t graduate, have K-12 schools get students better prepared for college, and help low-income high school students with the college application and testing process.