Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Hundreds of low-income high school students across south-central Wisconsin could attend Madison Area Technical College without paying for tuition under a new program that officials hope will help more young people see that college is open to them. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. In conjunction with its annual Higher Education and Hospital Forum event, Blackbaud, Inc. (NASDAQ:BLKB), the leading provider of software and services for the global philanthropic community, today announced a new solution offering that combines 35 years of software innovation and industry expertise with value-added services to help higher education institutions excel in fundraising and constituent relationship management. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. A powerful and inexpensive technique for rewriting snippets of DNA — known as CRISPR-Cas9 — has two research institutions locked in a bitter patent battle. On one side is UC Berkeley, where faculty first reported using the gene-editing technology in 2012, on the other, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where faculty won a special expedited patent for the technique in 2014. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Technical education advocates are encouraging Congress to better align programs and efforts under both job training and education laws to help employers find the skilled workers they need. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Cengage Learning and Microsoft today announced the integration of Microsoft Office into Cengage Learning’s flagship MindTap platform. Beginning with business statistics and computing—courses that prepare students for jobs that rely heavily on the use of business software—this relationship is the first-of-its-kind to provide students with live access to Office directly within their learning platform. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. The total cost of attending college in the United States has risen dramatically in recent decades — faster than inflation and faster than wage growth.Government investments in public higher education can lower tuition expenses for college students, but many governments actually cut their education funding significantly when the recession hit. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Central Wisconsin employers are demanding so many more computer specialists that two regional technical colleges are investing $1.5 million to expand training for information technology professionals. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, has expanded its historical newspaper collections with the launch of several new archives. Now available are The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000, a 145-year archive of Britain’s best-selling quality newspaper; China from Empire to Republic: Missionary, Sinology, and Literary Periodicals, a collection of English-language periodicals published in or about China from 1817-1949; and British Library Newspapers, Part V: 1746-1950, which adds newspapers from the northern part of the United Kingdom to Gale’s comprehensive digital collection of British newspapers. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. A Rockhurst University employee is suing the school after private information belonging to herself and another 1,200 of the school's employees was provided to criminals by one of her colleagues who fell prey to CEO fraud-type spear phishing last month. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Facing budget constraints and demand for greater accountability in higher education, states are tying public college and university funding to the schools’ ability to retain and graduate students. More...