Lackawanna College is proud to announce three new partners for its recently unveiled “Level Up Lackawanna” partnership with local school districts. The new partnering districts are Blue Ridge, Elk Lake, and Susquehanna. More...
27 mai 2018
iAPPROVE offers iOS app for sexual consent, Title IX compliance
What
iAPPROVEAPP is the first and only truly comprehensive personal relationship management tool for iPhone that’s capable of supporting individual decisions and certain aspects of Title IX. Based on more than 3.5 years of rigorous research and a behavioral-based design, iAPPROVE uses everyday technology to help colleges and universities stamp out sexual violence, assault and harassment, and address issues of vicarious liability, timely responsiveness and verifiable data. More...
Grand Rapids Community College approves pay raises for 2 unions
Grand Rapids Community College agreed to new contracts with two of its employee unions - the Police Officers Labor Council and College Employees Benefit Association. More...
Predatory colleges, freed to fleece students
Try as they might, the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress cannot disguise that they continue to do the bidding of the for-profit college industry, which has saddled working-class students — including veterans — with crushing debt while providing useless degrees, or no degrees at all. More...
Lackawanna announces academic partnership
MIT has a humanist chaplain to help students with the ethics of tech
Even some of the most powerful tech companies start out tiny, with a young innovator daydreaming about creating the next big thing. As today’s tech firms receive increased moral scrutiny, it raises a question about tomorrow’s: Is that young person thinking about the tremendous ethical responsibility they’d be taking on if their dream comes true. More...
A new era of protest is energizing HBCUs. But there are challenges
It was a chilly Friday afternoon in early February, and a group of young activists huddled around a table inside a modern, earthy café in Atlanta’s West End neighborhood, planning their next moves. More...
Here's how much you'll pay to go to Va. colleges next year
The average tuition and mandatory fees increase for Virginia undergraduate students at state schools was 5.4 percent last year, up from the 2016-17 average increase of 4.6 percent. More...
Colleges bend the rules for more students, give them extra help
As many as one in four students at some elite U.S. colleges are now classified as disabled, largely because of mental-health issues such as depression or anxiety, entitling them to a widening array of special accommodations like longer time to take exams. More...
Northark chooses Colleague
North Arkansas College (Northark), a community college located in Harrison, Arkansas, selected Colleague® by Ellucian for its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. More...
Turnitin announces updates to privacy center
Turnitin, a company at the forefront of academic integrity solutions for 20 years, announced today its commitment to stringent data privacy practices and compliance with the European Union’s (EU) General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR). More...
