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21 septembre 2015

Obama’s ‘Scorecard’ debuts to mixed reviews

University Business Magazine logoBy Tim Goral. College Scorecard details what graduates earn, how much student debt they carry and more. More...

21 septembre 2015

Math Geek Mom: Welcome to the U.S.!

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/blog_landing/public/mama_phd_blog_header.jpg?itok=C5xGPD1aBy 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...

20 septembre 2015

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...

20 septembre 2015

Obama: Agencies Should Use Behavioral Science

HomeMany 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...

20 septembre 2015

Obama Criticizes 'Coddling' of Students

HomePresident 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...

20 septembre 2015

A Dozen Slides

HomeBy 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...

20 septembre 2015

In the Right Direction

HomeBy 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...

20 septembre 2015

Indian Enough for Dartmouth?

HomeBy 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...

20 septembre 2015

Another New Name

HomeBy 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...

20 septembre 2015

Going Back to School

HomeBy 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...

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