By Léo Charbonneau. The federal government’s 2015 budget – the last before this fall’s election – contains a number of measures of interest to Canada’s universities. The two key areas highlighted as positive developments by stakeholders include sustained research support and changes to student financial aid. More...
By Natalie Marsh. Yachay Tech, Ecuador’s pioneering research intensive university, celebrated its first anniversary last month and reaffirmed its mission to drive the country’s knowledge economy. More...
By Melissa Korn. The higher-education wealth gap is growing—not just between those who do or don’t have college degrees but among colleges themselves.
The coffers of the nation’s 40 wealthiest universities, including Harvard University, Stanford University and the University of Michigan, are filling at a faster rate than those of other schools, thanks to particularly strong investment performances and generous donors, according to a report to be published Thursday by Moody’s Investors Service. More...
By Bonnie Miller Rubin. Despite the fact that they don’t play football, basketball or soccer, Sergio da Silva and Armindo Goncalves were hotly recruited by Joliet Junior College.
The two young men arrived on campus in January, leaving behind their island home in the South Pacific – a leap of faith, considering they are the first members of their respective families to ever board an airplane, much less pursue higher education. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Inside America's Subscription-Box Obsession
Elizabeth Segran, Fast Company, 2015/04/08
One of the great things about the internet is that it's possible to find entire communities devoted to things you've never heard of. This article describes the phenomenon of subscription boxes: the idea is that for a set fee you receive a box every month or so with a selection of items around a theme. My Subscription Addiction lists hundreds, maybe thousands, of these, with reviews. More...
By Beckie Smith. Hobsons, the private company which specialises in student recruitment and conversion, has extended its involvement with advising and admissions through its acquisition of US-based Starfish Retention Solutions, which provides student retention and advising services for higher education institutions. More...
Rave Guardian App bringing added safety, protection to more than 13,500 students, faculty and staff at Georgia Regents’ main campus and medical centers. More...
The 37th First Nations University of Canada Annual Spring Pow Wow drew thousands of spectators and participants this year. The event attracted more than seven thousand spectators, including the tiny toddlers. Some people travelled to Regina from places such as New Mexico and Florida to watch the performers. More...
By Richard Vedder. There are three standard explanations as to why college costs too much. First, there is the so-called Baumol Effect, named after a Princeton professor, William Baumol, that argues that teaching is like theater: professors are actors performing before students. Just as it takes as many actors now to perform King Lear as it did 400 years ago when it was written, there has been no productivity advance in higher education. More...
By Rebecca Fishman Lipsey. I'm not going to wow you with some mind-blowing statistic about educational inequity in the United States. In 2015, our achievement gap has its own Wikipedia page. By and large, people are aware that only 10 percent of low-income students are graduating from college. And increasingly, people seem to understand that being born poor has no relevance to a person's intelligence, capability, and motivation. More...
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