Obama administration to put $175M toward apprenticeships
By Stefanie Botelho. The Obama administration is spending $175M on apprenticeship programs across the country in an effort to grow a skilled workforce. More...
Is college tuition really too high?
By Stefanie Botelho. To understand the feeling of crisis that many see in higher education right now, it’s useful to start with some figures from 40 years ago. In 1974, the median American family earned just under $13,000 a year. A new home could be had for $36,000, an average new car for $4,400. More...
Improving web access to broaden learning
By Stefanie Botelho. The Arkansas Research and Education Optical Network (ARE-ON) was designed to deliver high-speed Internet connectivity to all Arkansas public four-year universities. More...
Sizeable shift in reporting structures in higher education
By Stefanie Botelho. TERMINALFOUR, the digital marketing and web content management platform for higher education (HE), today announced results of its Global Higher Education Survey which shows a significant shift in reporting structures in higher education web and marketing teams. More...
PFAC merger with CNU on hold for building funding
By Stefanie Botelho. A planned merger between the Peninsula Fine Arts Center and Christopher Newport University is on hold pending state funding for construction of a facility. More...
Why we should fear University, Inc.
By Stefanie Botelho. Here at Purdue University, where I recently completed my Ph.D. in English, we have a little garden on the far west side of our enormous campus, where students and their families and professors and nearby residents tend to tomatoes and sunflowers. More...
Harreld tenure offer raises academics' eyebrows
By Stefanie Botelho. Bruce Harreld, the newly appointed president of the University of Iowa, is eligible for a tenured faculty position in the UI Tippie College of Business, according to contract details released Friday by the Iowa Board of Regents. More...
The power of free community college
By Stefanie Botelho. Caitlin McLawhorn could never have gone to college, she says, without the free tuition she received to attend community college first and to earn an associate’s degree. More...
Why aren't there more higher ed programs behind bars?
By Stefanie Botelho. America, by far, has the highest incarceration rate among developed nations. The rate of imprisonment in the U.S. has more than quadrupled in the last 40 years, fueled by "three strikes" and mandatory-minimum sentencing laws. More...
A 19-year-old college student to help hometown students
By Stefanie Botelho. The high school students sat around the conference table, their pens poised, listening with rapt attention to advice being served up by Marjada Tucker. More...
