Submitted by Ray Bendici. The songs and interviews were recorded in 1946 by Dr. David Boder, a psychologist who traveled to refugee camps in France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany and interviewed at least 130 Jewish survivors in nine languages. More...19 février 2017
The hot new brand of higher ed
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. President Donald Trump’s decision to tap the president of Liberty University to lead a task force within the U.S. Department of Education reflects two trends: a backlash against liberal policies at American colleges and universities and a hot new brand in higher education—the conspicuously conservative college. More...
Trump hints at cutting federal funds to UC Berkeley
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. A speech by conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos was canceled at UC Berkeley on Wednesday amid violent protests that prompted President Trump to suggest cutting federal funding to the university. More...
Jerry Falwell Jr. to head Trump education task force
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Evangelical Christian leader Jerry Falwell Jr. will head an education reform task force under U.S. President Donald Trump and is keen to cut university regulations, including rules on dealing with campus sexual assault, the school he heads said. More...
Trump's immigration ban could cost U.S. colleges $700M
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Masoumian was born in Tehran, Iran, and lived in Turkey for about one year while his family sought asylum in the U.S. Now a permanent resident, Masoumian hopes to transfer to California State Polytechnic University-Pomona and take up aerospace engineering. He dreams of landing a job at Boeing Co., the world’s largest plane maker. More...
Lost songs of Holocaust survivors found in University of Akron archives
Submitted by Ray Bendici. The songs and interviews were recorded in 1946 by Dr. David Boder, a psychologist who traveled to refugee camps in France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany and interviewed at least 130 Jewish survivors in nine languages. More...The ivy league's gender pay-gap problem
Submitted by Ray Bendici. Across the United States, 34-year-old women, on average, make between 10 and 18 percent less than 34-year-old men. That gap isn’t surprising—it’s actually been slowly improving in recent years. More...Made in America: The growing weight of student loans
Submitted by Ray Bendici. Historically, the notion that one can get a good education, work hard, and eventually create a better existence has been both an aspiration and an expectation. As the Financial Times described, education has been a "cultural imperative". More...Designing adaptive learning and assessment in HarvardX
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. There is an indisputable need for evidence-based instructional designs that create the optimal conditions for learners with different knowledge, skills and motivations to succeed in MOOCs. More...
UW proposes free tuition for first-generation transfer students
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The University of Wisconsin would offer one or two years of free tuition to academically strong, first-generation college students who transfer with associate's degrees from UW Colleges or technical college partners to UW-Madison. More...
Fighting racial bias on campus
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The uptick in reports of racial bias reinforces my argument as to why it’s so important that colleges and universities be responsible for white students having access to a proper course of study in race. More...
