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11 janvier 2015

Farm Teams

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/confessions_of_a_community_college_dean_blog_header.jpgBy Matt Reed. Western Governors’ University is sending applicants who aren’t quite academically ready to enroll to StraighterLine to get themselves up to speed before coming back to WGU. Read more...

11 janvier 2015

Obama Will Make Proposal on Higher Ed Friday

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/all/themes/ihecustom/logo.jpgPresident Obama will be in Tennessee Friday and is expected to make a proposal involving access to college, The Tennessean reported. Jill Biden, the wife of Vice President Biden and a community college professor, is also expected, suggesting a possible focus on community college. Tennessee recently started a program -- proposed by its Republican governor, Bill Haslam -- to make two years of community college free to high school graduates. Read more...

11 janvier 2015

A 'Chilly Climate' on Campus

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/all/themes/ihecustom/logo.jpgBy Jake New. Women and students of color continue to encounter psychologically damaging racism and sexism on college campuses, creating a climate where students struggle to graduate and are unsure who to turn to for help.
That’s according to an article published this week based on the findings of Harvard University’s Voices of Diversity project. Read more...

11 janvier 2015

Redefining Full-Time Adjunct Work

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/all/themes/ihecustom/logo.jpgBy Michael Stratford. As Republicans formally take control of a new Congress this week, one of the party’s top priorities is pushing through a change to President Obama’s health care law that many colleges are cheering but that adjunct faculty have criticized. Read more...

11 janvier 2015

Two Years of Free Community College

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/all/themes/ihecustom/logo.jpgBy Paul Fain. President Obama is going big with his higher education announcement in Tennessee on Friday. He wants to make the first two years of community college as free as high school.
“To make sure that community college is accessible for everybody,” Obama said in a video message released Thursday, “put simply, what I’d like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody who’s willing to work for it.” Read more...

11 janvier 2015

Elusive Data on Education and Workforce

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/all/themes/ihecustom/logo.jpgBy Paul Fain. After eight years of work and $640 million in federal spending, state data systems that seek to link education and the workforce remain riddled with holes. That was the conclusion of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in a report released in November. The GAO looked at two federal grant programs to support states’ development of “longitudinal" data systems that try to follow students as they move from early education to K-12, college and employment. Read more...

11 janvier 2015

Analyzing Application Essays

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/all/themes/ihecustom/logo.jpgBy Scott Jaschik. Admissions essays are thought of by many as less scientific than other parts of the college application process -- a chance to share a personal story, to inject personality into the process, to become more than just a grade-point average or test score. Read more...

11 janvier 2015

Freezing Out Young Scientists

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/all/themes/ihecustom/logo.jpgBy Kaitlin Mulhere. Ten years ago, a report from a National Academy of Sciences committee sounded an alarm about the barriers that young biomedical scientists face in launching their research careers. If improvements aren’t made, the report warned, there could be dire consequences to the future of biomedical research in the U.S. Read more...

11 janvier 2015

Time, Money and Teacher Prep

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/all/themes/ihecustom/logo.jpgBy Michael Stratford. Several dozen higher education groups said Friday that the U.S. Department of Education was lowballing an estimate of how much its proposal to tighten regulation of teacher preparation programs would cost colleges and states. Read more...

11 janvier 2015

Short-Lived Transfer Degrees

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/all/themes/ihecustom/logo.jpgBy Paul Fain. Drexel University last January earned praise for expanding a transfer program that brings the university’s faculty members to local community colleges. But Drexel is phasing out the program less than a year later.
As The Philadelphia Inquirer first reported, the university will no longer offer bachelor’s degrees on the campuses of two Pennsylvania community colleges and one located across the Delaware River, in New Jersey. Read more...

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