By Tim Goral. College Scorecard details what graduates earn, how much student debt they carry and more. More...
Math Geek Mom: Welcome to the U.S.!
By Rosemarie Emanuele. Today I want to write a short note to a visitor who will arrive soon. Unlike the ciphers I teach in Number Theory, this is written in “plain text.”
Dear Pope Francis. Read more...
Details, Details…
By Matt Reed. The entire higher-ed-policy Twitterverse was abuzz Saturday morning with news of the release of Education Department data on the performance of colleges across America. More...
Obama: Agencies Should Use Behavioral Science
Many congressional Republicans have mocked the idea of federal support for behavioral research (and tried to cut it). But President Obama this week expressed backing for such research. Read more...
Obama Criticizes 'Coddling' of Students
President Obama spoke at an Iowa high school this week and was asked about proposals to cut off federal funds to "politically biased" colleges. The president didn't think such a plan was workable or desirable, but he gave a strong statement about the value of being exposed in college to new ideas, including those that are different from one's own and even appear offensive. Read more...
A Dozen Slides
By Philip N. Howard. We’ve all sat through -- and given -- presentations with too many PowerPoint slides. Moreover, we’ve all toyed with the various ways of trying to make complex theories, long quotable quotes from scholars or field observations, or enormous statistical tables into a single overhead screen. Read more...
In the Right Direction
By Nancy Zimpher. While the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard website may be a scaled-back version of what President Obama first announced on the State University of New York’s own Buffalo campus in 2013, it will be a useful tool for providing the information students and their families need to make decisions about college costs and return on investment. Read more...
Indian Enough for Dartmouth?
By Scott Jaschik. Dartmouth College this month appointed Susan Taffe Reed as director of its Native American Program. In a news release, the college noted Taffe Reed's academic background (a Cornell University Ph.D. and postdocs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Bowdoin College), her research interest (ethnomusicology) and something else: Taffe Reed, Dartmouth noted, is president of Eastern Delaware Nations Inc. Read more...
Another New Name
By Kellie Woodhouse. Georgia Regents University is changing its name. Again.
As of Tuesday, it’s Augusta University.
The change is the second in three years at the 9,200-student public university. When Augusta State University merged with Georgia Health Sciences University in 2012, the institutions took the name Georgia Regents University. Read more...
Going Back to School
By Colleen Flaherty. First-time graduate school enrollment was up 3.5 percent in 2014 from the year before, the biggest annual increase since 2009, according to a report out today from the Council of Graduate Schools. Read more...