Do students want long-term debt or limited earning power?
At a whopping $1.4 trillion national total, student loans currently hold the silver medal in American consumer debt, second only to home mortgages. This staggering figure looms over nearly 45 million Americans. More...
Higher Ed Secretary tells UNM Athletics to pay up millions to university
University of New Mexico Athletics is in hot water with the New Mexico Higher Education Department. The state agency claims the Athletics Department owes the university millions of dollars, and hasn’t been following through with paying back their debt. More...
Centenary University partners with Elemental Path
Centenary University's Innovation, Education and Psychology Departments partnered with Elemental Path, an educational technology developer that was recently named "A Top 10 Artificial Intelligence Company that is Disrupting Education" by DisruptorDaily, to conduct a research project to determine the impact of engaging students with the CogniToys Dino, a cloud-based artificial intelligence smart toy dinosaur that engages with children for customized learning and play. More...
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak created a new online university
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is getting into the education business.
The Silicon Valley technologist, who helped create Apple (AAPL, +0.64%) over 40 years ago with the late Steve Jobs, has debuted Woz U, an online university. More...
UMUC’s approach to digital academic dishonesty
This is the third and final installment in Bishop and Cini’s series on academic dishonesty in online education. In the second installment, they discussed some broad strategies that could help online education leaders minimize the prevalence of digital academic dishonesty. In this series, they share the specific approach UMUC has taken. More...
A planned merger of UW 2-year colleges with 4-year campuses
University of Wisconsin System officials are pursuing a plan to merge the state’s two-year UW Colleges with its four-year institutions, turning the 13 small schools into branch campuses of the larger universities. More...
University of Iowa hopes to launch college-in-prison program
The freedom of speech isn’t just a Constitutional right guaranteed to American citizens; it’s a human right — one of 30 — declared by the United Nations in 1948 after the Nazi regime was defeated. More...
Why is it so hard to stop hazing?
A Beta Theta Pi pledge at Penn State University, he had been forced to drink a toxic amount of alcohol in an alleged hazing ritual known as “the gauntlet,” according to a grand jury report. He then tumbled headfirst down a flight of stairs. More...
Why colleges are borrowing billions
When the number of students at Hawaii Pacific University started to fall at an alarming rate, the university embarked on an ambitious plan to get students back. More...
Partnership empowers students and career coaches with data
InsideTrack, the leading provider of student success coaching for enrollment, retention, and career development today announced a partnership with labor market analytics company Emsi to integrate career assessments and real-time employment market data across its coaching solutions. More...
