If you are a regular reader of this blog, you are aware of my emphasis on data. Today’s post focuses on data scientists: our need for them, how we should train them, and the role that entrepreneurship in the education space has to play (and is playing) in this endeavor. More...
23 décembre 2017
Cultivating data scientists: What is edtech doing and what's left?
University of Missouri reveals long-term enrollment goals
The University of Missouri is setting lofty goals to not only increase enrollment but to help students finish their degrees and find employment after graduation. More...
The right way to fix universities
Tax universities? The unthinkable is now a live possibility. Congressional plans to tax the endowments of wealthy private schools and the tuition benefits of graduate students have elicited outrage from universities and schadenfreude from Trump supporters. More...
Lackawanna launches student financing solution
Lackawanna College today announced that students will now be able to fund part of their college costs with income share agreements (ISAs), an innovative solution that allows students to pay for college with a set percentage of their income after graduation. More...
UNC-Chapel Hill research exceeds $1B annually
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has surpassed, for the first time, $1 billion in annual research expenditures, according to the nation’s annual Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey. More...
Share your ‘selfie’ forecast for 2018
The roles of administrators and department managers are shifting as budgets become more constrained, student needs evolve and technology changes. Please follow the link to tell us how your role is changing. More...
Using the ‘Blue Book’ as a guide
That “Blue Book” is the American Association of Community Colleges’ (AACC) 2014 report “Empowering Community Colleges to Build the Nation’s Workforce: An Implementation Guide,” which serves as a guide to drive the recommendations of AACC’s 21st-Century Commission in transforming community colleges to dramatically improve college completion. More...
Indiana University suspends fraternity activity temporarily
Indiana University-Bloomington joined a growing list of colleges and universities to place Greek life on suspension Monday night. More...
Banks partner with Howard Community College
In his native country of Iran, Ali Fazeli served as the general manager of a major shipping and freight forwarding company, but he wanted a better future for his family. More...
UW-Madison's corporate partnerships raise revenue, ethical questions
The line to enter a pastel pink Google “Donut Shop” on UW-Madison’s Engineering Mall one cloudy morning earlier this month snaked around the grassy quad, filled with students and others who wanted to experience the pop-up promotion for the tech giant’s smart speaker. More...
