By Michael McDonald. Ivy League presidential pay is looking more like the big leagues.
Columbia University paid President Lee Bollinger $4.6 million in 2013, a 36 percent increase from the year before, according to a tax filing released Tuesday. Yale University recently revealed it paid former President Richard Levin a bonus of $8.5 million when he retired in 2013 after 20 years. More...
02 juin 2015
This Is What Happens When You Slash Funding for Public Universities
By Michelle Goldberg. Like other struggling schools, the University of Arizona is raising out-of-state tuition—and courting the affluent students who can afford to pay it. More...
California community college combats Latino higher education gap
When the Campaign for College Opportunity released its report on Latinos, the headlines in national newspapers were loud and clear: Latinos face a post-secondary education gap.
And because Latinos make up nearly 40 percent of California’s population, this gap has implications for the whole economy. One community college in Santa Rosa has been striving to bridge that gap by building clear pathways into higher education. More...
University to invest in startup companies
By Youssef Rddad. In order to get research and patents into the hands of companies, the University of Minnesota’s Faculty Senate recently voted to update the school’s policy on the commercialization of technology to allow the University to invest directly in startup companies. More...
Native American Indian Education Act fixes a costly pledge
For more than a century, Fort Lewis College in Durango has served an important role in providing free tuition to American Indians.
The pact struck in 1910 deeded the college to the state in return for an agreement that Fort Lewis College would provide free education to American Indians in perpetuity. A similar agreement was struck in Minnesota. More...
'American Universities Are Addicted to Chinese Students'
By Matt Schiavenza. A startling number of Chinese students are getting kicked out of American colleges. According to a white paper published by WholeRen, a Pittsburgh-based consultancy, an estimated 8,000 students from China were expelled from universities and colleges across the United States in 2013-4. The vast majority of these students—around 80 percent—were removed due to cheating or failing their classes. More...
Ivy League Presidents Are Starting to Get Paid Like Corporate Executives
Making Online and e-Learning Accessible to All
By Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi. The web is a great place for communications, social connections, gaming and even learning. Yes - online learning. This is a relatively new field that is extremely promising for differentiated learners - i.e. gifted learners, people with learning disabilities, and everyone else in between. I'm a big fan of the Khan Academy, Ted.org and MOOCs. More...
