By Charles Huckabee. National Hispanic University, which stopped enrolling new students in January, expects to close as a four-year college by the summer of 2015, the San Jose Mercury News reported, citing a statement by the institution’s corporate owner, Laureate Education Inc. The company bought National Hispanic in 2010 and planned to significantly increase its enrollment by adding 8,000 students online and starting new degree programs. More...
By . President Obama will speak at the University of California at Irvine’s commencement ceremony, in Anaheim, Calif., in June. The president typically speaks at three or four commencement ceremonies each spring, including one at a service academy. Irvine’s campus community invited Mr. Obama to speak last April, and earlier this year sent some 10,000 postcards and a student-produced video to the White House. More...
By . Skyline College, a two-year institution in San Bruno, Calif., says it will re-evaluate a policy, in place since 2006, that instructs faculty and staff members not to talk to members of the news media, according to The Daily Journal, a newspaper in San Mateo, Calif.
The paper reported that the college, which is part of the San Mateo County Community College District, emailed employees last week to notify them of the policy. More...
By . The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on Thursday issued a license that authorizes academic exchanges between the United States and Iran, and allows Iranian students to participate in U.S.-based massive open online courses, The Wall Street Journal reported. More...
By . A federal jury in North Carolina on Thursday sided with a professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington who asserted in a lawsuit that the institution had discriminated against him by denying him a promotion based on his writings and religious views, the Star-News, a Wilmington newspaper, reported. More...
By Tom Bartlett. We live in the golden age of cute. As one scholar recently put it, cuteness has become a “dominant aesthetic category in digital culture.” Hard to argue with that. Even if you steer clear of toddler pics on Facebook, even if you’ve never clicked on Reddit’s popular “aww” category, your elderly former neighbor will still email you a random photo of, say, three adorable piglets peeking out of a coffee mug. Read more...
By Taylor Harvey. Concerns about paying for college reached an all-time high among respondents to a survey released by Princeton Review Inc. on Tuesday, but 100 percent of them said a college degree would be “worth it.”
In the 2014 “College Hopes and Worries Survey,” 89 percent of respondents reported that financial aid would be “very necessary” to pay college expenses. Among those respondents, 65 percent said it would be “extremely necessary.” More...
By Eric Hoover. Except for those who’ve been vacationing on Neptune since last summer, most everyone’s heard about the Obama administration’s proposed college-ratings system, and the American Council on Education’s dislike of it. Whatever your view, it’s worth reading this new report from the ACE, which offers various objections to the plan. More...
By Beckie Supiano. The federal government should slash the Expected Family Contribution, argues an op-ed in Friday’s New York Times by Steve Cohen, co-author of a recent book on admissions and student aid. Cutting the expected contribution, he suggests, “would force colleges to construct financial-aid packages without the artificial price supports of inflated contribution numbers—and make paying for college less agonizing.” Read more...
By Megan O'Neil. Internet2, a computer-networking consortium whose infrastructure supports the work of tens of thousands of educators and researchers across the United States, expects to formalize a partnership with its counterpart in India this month. Officials say the move will clear the way for collaboration between American and Indian researchers on a scale never seen before. Read more...
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