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5 août 2014

Racy frosh event video angers Ottawa student federation

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Racy frosh event video angers Ottawa student federation
Umnattributed, CBC News, Aug 01, 2014

Every once in a while, you get a photo of a person enjoying a university social activity (such as binge drinking) with the caption "you can't do this in online learning." The implication of course is that the physical and social presence of an in-person class creates an experience that can't be duplicated off-campus. More...

4 août 2014

The Rise of the For-Profits: Assessing their True Impact (Part 2)

The EvoLLLutionBy  - EvoLLLution. Not to suggest that they were working in concert, but by and large these institutions — some of which were new, others that had been hanging around on the margins for many years — applied some of the basic principles of the marketplace to an industry that had not been treated like a marketplace before. More...

4 août 2014

The Rise of the For-Profits: Assessing their True Impact (Part 1)

The EvoLLLutionBy  - EvoLLLution. In the last few years, the proprietary higher education institutions — the for-profit schools — have been on the firing line. They have been investigated by Congress for exploiting federal Title IV financial aid guidelines, pursuing profits at the expense of serving their students. More...

4 août 2014

Partnering to Create Responsive Corporate Training and Development Education

The EvoLLLutionBy  - EvoLLLution. 1. What was the impetus for AT&T to become involved in developing the nanodegree program with Udacity?
AT&T developed the nanodegreeprogram with Udacity because of its great potential to help our employees build skills in critical software disciplines — and to also widen the pipeline of applicants skilled in key technologies. More...

4 août 2014

Here’s the First Mention of an ‘Adjunct Professor’ in The New York Times

By Brock Read - Chronicle Vitae. So yesterday The New York Times unveiled Chronicle, a nifty new tool that lets you track how often the paper has used certain language throughout history. Two-thirds of the media world is already playing with this thing. It’s produced some legitimate journalism and, uh, some of this, too. See more...

4 août 2014

Billions of GI Bill funds go to for-profit schools

Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have flocked to for-profit colleges, including a troubled chain that is closing or selling its campuses amid a series of federal and state investigations.
A report to be released Wednesday from the office of Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, a critic of the for-profit education industry who chairs the Senate Education Committee, finds that for-profit colleges received $1.7 billion in Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits in the 2012-2013 school term. About a quarter of benefits paid under the program went to the for-profit sector. More...

4 août 2014

Higher ed study results are deeply disturbing

The News-GazetteBy Gene Budig and Alan Heaps. A recent report from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania sheds important and disturbing new light on racial and gender inequality in higher education.
Pretending to be students, Professor Katherine Milkman and her colleagues emailed 6,500 professors at 259 of the nation's top colleges and universities requesting a meeting to discuss research opportunities before applying to a doctoral program. Each message was identical. More...

4 août 2014

Black Colleges Must Change to Survive, Thrive

By . The debate around the relevancy of historically black colleges (HBCUs) is at least as old as the 1954 Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that "separate but equal" educational systems are inherently unequal. The data and experiences of countless HBCU alumni like me tell a much different story: HBCUs play an invaluable role in educating often underprepared students successfully, and without HBCUs, the hopes and dreams of thousands of capable African-Americans would go unrealized. More...

4 août 2014

New state law limits core classes for college degree

By Bridget Ortigo. Some public college students in Texas could save time and money earning their associate or bachelor degree starting in the fall semester. The state Legislature changed the number of college credit hours in a student’s “core curriculum” from a minimum of 42 hours to a maximum of 42.
“In the past, institutions had the prerogative of requiring more than 42 hours for some core curriculums; now the state has taken that choice away, and 42 is the maximum number of credit hours that can be required for a core curriculum, excluding some health science degrees such as nursing or engineering,” said Rex Peebles, assistant commissioner for workforce academic affairs and research for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. More...

4 août 2014

Drexel Business Services OneCenter

University Business LogoBy Thomas W. Durso. No one disputes that the management of the seven units housed under the Drexel Business Services (DBS) department worked hard. The units generate $68 million in revenue, $38 million in expenses and $5 million in expense recovery annually for the Philadelphia-based institutions. The units’ respective managers were responsible for their own budgets, purchasing, accounts payable, reconciliation, cash handling, forecasting, HR and quarterly reporting. More...

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