By Doug Lederman. Readers, it's your turn: What issues are keeping you up at night? What strategies to adopt? How to encourage and support the faculty? Which products or services to use. More...
18 mai 2019
18 mai 2019
Bill Bars Visas for Students, Scholars With Chinese Military Ties
By Elizabeth Redden. Legislation introduced by congressional Republicans Tuesday would bar students and scholars with ties to the Chinese military from receiving student or research visas to come to the U.S., Reuters reported. More...
18 mai 2019
Trump to Announce Immigration Plan
By Elizabeth Redden. President Trump is expected to announce today an immigration plan that would reduce family-based immigration in favor of employment-based skilled immigration, National Public Radio reported. The total number of green cards issued would not change under the plan, but the share of immigrants coming to the U.S. through skill-based versus family-based pathways would change. More...
18 mai 2019
Liberal Arts Cuts, Evangelical Edition
By Elizabeth Redden. Gordon College announces cuts to majors, consolidating history, philosophy and political science into a single department and eliminating stand-alone majors in chemistry, foreign languages, physics and other fields. More...
18 mai 2019
New Effort to Examine Postsecondary Value
By Rick Seltzer. As scrutiny of college prices and outcomes mounts, a new panel co-chaired by leaders of Gates Foundation and state-college group aims to examine the value of postsecondary credentials. More...
18 mai 2019
California Mulls Crackdown on Online Partnerships
By Lindsay McKenzie. Bills targeting for-profit institutions in California would prohibit tuition-sharing deals -- a sign of growing political scrutiny of the role of online program management companies. More...
18 mai 2019
Ohio Mulls Dropping Aid Eligibility for WGU Ohio
By Lindsay McKenzie. State lawmakers are considering removing eligibility for Western Governors University Ohio to access state-funded aid, including need-based grants, the Associated Pressreported. More...
18 mai 2019
Drowning in Research Reading? AI Could Help
By Lindsay McKenzie. Artificial intelligence that reads journal articles and highlights key findings could help researchers stay on top of the latest research. But the technology isn’t ready for prime time. More...
18 mai 2019
End of the Line for Much-Hyped Tech Company
By Lindsay McKenzie. After failing to live up to the expectations it (self-)generated, the adaptive learning company Knewton goes out not with a bang but with a whimper. More...
18 mai 2019
Adjuncts at Mercy, Occidental Form Unions
By Colleen Flaherty. Non-tenure-track professors at Mercy and Occidental Colleges voted to form unions affiliated with Service Employees International Union, they announced this week. At Mercy, where there were 831 eligible adjunct voters, 406 voted for a union and 100 voted no, according to information from SEIU. More...
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