Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Student Connections, a nonprofit affiliate of USA Funds, has received a patent (US 9,495,704) for its Borrower Connect cohort management technology solution. More...
27 janvier 2017
27 janvier 2017
The cost of college depends greatly on geography, major
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Colleges and universities are under significant pressure from college affordability advocates, and understandably so. More...
27 janvier 2017
Classes you get when you give college students control
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. For much of each week, UC Berkeley senior Caelle McKaveney studies chemical signaling in spiders, nucleotide coding patterns and other serious science. More...
27 janvier 2017
What U.S. higher ed can learn from Canada
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The recent presidential election has spurred plenty of comparisons of how U.S. public policy stacks up against our neighbors to the north, from health care to gun control. Perhaps we should add higher education to that list. More...
27 janvier 2017
Partnership enables colleges to create, award digital badges
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Digital credential pioneer Credly, in partnership with Canvas, the learning management system (LMS) by Instructure, today announced the launch of a powerful new application that enables education providers to award digital badges to students as they master critical skills or competencies within courses or training programs. More...
27 janvier 2017
How to raise future black women mathematicians
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Studying the successes of black women mathematicians opens a window into how we can produce more black STEM grads. It also exposes the bigotry that prevents us from doing so. More...
27 janvier 2017
Merit launches platform to see achievements of constituents
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Sending a congratulatory letter to constituents when they accomplish something noteworthy is a tried-and-true constituent relations strategy. A new service called Merit makes it easy and free for legislators or their staffs to congratulate college students from their districts with no paper, no stamps, and no need to look up addresses. More...
27 janvier 2017
Here’s why safe spaces for students are important.
Submitted by Tim Goral. Our usual practice is to thank the sender for writing and leave it at that. The combination of receiving more than 100 emails and letters a day and recognizing that the purpose of many writers is to rebuke, rather than discuss, leaves us little choice about how to respond. More...
27 janvier 2017
Is freshman admission only about prestige?
Submitted by Tim Goral. In October 2014, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced a $10 million investment to assist talented high school students of modest means gain access to “top” colleges and universities — “top” being defined as institutions with graduation rates consistently in excess of 70 percent. More...
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