Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Last September, the NCAA started circulating a “presidential pledge” intended to deal with a problem that continues to rankle college sports: Diversity in hiring. More...
25 mai 2017
The NCAA put out a diversity hiring pledge. Notre Dame and Boston College won’t sign.
Budget committee keeps labor commission, dumps tech college tuition freeze
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The Legislature’s Republican-controlled budget committee ditched Gov. Scott Walker’s proposals to cut a century-old labor review commission and freeze technical college tuition. More...
Echo360 algorithms bring reliability to software-based lecture capture
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Echo360 announced, today, the launch of new capabilities for their popular lecture capture software to provide faculty and students with the most reliable video capture solution on the market for classroom PCs. More...
Nobel laureate's talk at UI canceled after faculty backlash
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Faculty objections have prompted the University of Illinois' Carl Woese Institute for Genomic Biology to drop plans for a talk next month by Nobel Laureate James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA but has been castigated by fellow scientists for his discredited views on race and intelligence. More...
Program to increase teacher diversity hosts college signing ceremony
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Four Columbia high school students made up the first graduating class of the new Education Experience Intern Program, or EdX, which was previously the Minority Internship Program. More...
Kofax enables unifying student records across multiple higher ed entities
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Kofax, a leading provider of software to simplify and transform the First Mile of business, today announced that North Dakota University System (NDUS) has consolidated student records from two research institutions, four regional universities and five community colleges into a single, secure content management platform using Perceptive ContentTM software. More...
Latin America doubles students in higher ed, but inequality persists
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The rate of students in Latin America and the Caribbean who graduate from higher education programs more than doubled – from 21 percent to 43 percent – between 2000-2013, but challenges persist, including the high dropout rate and the connections to the labor market, a World Bank Group report noted. More...
Trump and DeVos plan to reshape higher ed finance
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Budget documents obtained by The Washington Post show President Trump’s administration is proposing a raft of changes that could have significant impact on college students and graduates. More...
Helix Education explores game-changing enrollment growth strategies in new playbook
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The first volume of Helix Education's Enrollment Growth Playbook sparked thoughtful and critical conversations at institutions around the country, and was lauded as ‘a powerhouse of knowledge’ and ‘must read’. More...
Police simulator to enhance training, campus safety
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The Central Michigan University Police Department, which plays a vital role in campus safety and security, is providing its officers with a training simulator that is preloaded with hundreds of scenarios that officers experience in the real world. More...
