Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. A first-of-its-kind survey released Monday is offering a glimpse into the realities of going back to college as a working adult, one that officials hope will lead to policies that boost student success. More...
Cuban: Liberal arts is the future
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Billionaire investor Mark Cuban offered a perhaps bleak prediction on the future of jobs in an interview Friday with Bloomberg's Cory Johnson at the NBA All-Star Technology Summit in New Orleans. More...
'Free' college tuition doesn't add up
A virtual personal assistant focused on your students' success
Submitted by Tim Goral. Introducing Success Center from Student Connections. Its new adaptive learning app helps students along every step of their academic journey, bringing m-learning to nonacademic skills so students can get help when and where it’s most convenient and effective for them. More...
Confronting academia’s ties to slavery
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. In 1976, archivists at Harvard’s natural history museum opened a drawer and discovered a haunting portrait of a shirtless enslaved man named Renty, gazing sorrowfully but steadily at the camera. Taken on a South Carolina plantation in 1850, it had been used by the Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz to formulate his now-discredited ideas about racial difference. More...
FLEXspace joins UBTech as program partner
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. FLEXspace, a flexible learning environments exchange, will present five sessions on active classroom and learning spaces. More...
Starting here, finishing there
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Sixteen percent of students who started at two-year colleges received a degree from a four-year institution within six years — regardless whether they first earned an associate degree, according to a new report. More...
Tenn. high schools, higher ed institutions can share electronic transcripts
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. All Tennessee high schools are now eligible to send electronic transcript data of current or recent students among all 649 high schools, Tennessee’s higher education institutions, Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation (TSAC) for Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship eligibility, by joining the new Tennessee Electronic Transcript Exchange. More...