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26 mars 2014

State of Higher Education: The Unbound Future of America's Colleges

Jeff SelingoBy Jeff Selingo. As demand surges for a college degree around the world, the higher-education enterprise has never been stronger. But the state of the industry that serves the enterprise is broken, particularly in the United States.
For most of the 20th century, the U.S. bragged that it had the best colleges and universities in the world— and rightfully so. Not anymore.
Over the last 30 years, American higher education has lost its way. More...

25 mars 2014

NSCC sees increase in new students with university experience

cbc masthead logoThere's been an increase in the number of students with university degrees enrolling at the Nova Scotia Community College, according to an internal survey of the college's first year students.
NSCC initially reported a large increase, but later realized it had changed the questions in the survey and so could not tell who has a degree, and who does not.
According to the survey, the bulk of new NSCC students arrive with no post-secondary education. More...

23 mars 2014

March Madness Madness!

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/linguafranca-45.pngBy . I think we can all agree that March Madness has jumped the shark. In addition to the actual brackets to the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, one can find mock-brackets for such things as public broadcasting hosts, ESPN personalities, and, courtesy of Jezebel, intoxicants. (In early-round action, Champagne topped Smirnoff Ice, weed blew away crack, Margaritas got the better of rubbing alcohol, and caffeine narrowly edged glue.) More...

23 mars 2014

The Transfer of Knowledge

By David Silbey. Political campaigns are giant startups that flare into existence in campaign season, hire thousands and spend millions, and then mostly wink out of existence. Others have made this point. What’s interesting me at the moment is what happens to those campaign workers when the effort ends? A fair number stay in politics: move on to the next campaign, go to DC, or something similar. But a lot don’t, and it would be fascinating to trace their movement into the American economy. They have a lot of skills and experience, often at a very young age, and those skills are useful. In the same way that the veterans of World War II, often with great experience in logistics and supply movement, came back to the United States and filtered into an economy where those skills were prized, political campaign people may well be having knock-on economic effects. More...

23 mars 2014

Audit Criticizes California Regulator of For-Profit and Career Colleges

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . The California state agency charged with regulating more than 1,000 private postsecondary institutions, such as for-profit colleges and vocational schools, has “consistently failed to meet its responsibility to protect the public’s interests,” says a new report from California’s state auditor, the Los Angeles Times reported. More...

23 mars 2014

National Hispanic U. Reportedly Will Close by Summer of 2015

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . National Hispanic University, which stopped enrolling new students in January, expects to close as a four-year college by the summer of 2015, the San Jose Mercury News reported, citing a statement by the institution’s corporate owner, Laureate Education Inc. The company bought National Hispanic in 2010 and planned to significantly increase its enrollment by adding 8,000 students online and starting new degree programs. More...

23 mars 2014

Obama to Speak at UC-Irvine Commencement

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . President Obama will speak at the University of California at Irvine’s commencement ceremony, in Anaheim, Calif., in June. The president typically speaks at three or four commencement ceremonies each spring, including one at a service academy. Irvine’s campus community invited Mr. Obama to speak last April, and earlier this year sent some 10,000 postcards and a student-produced video to the White House. More...

23 mars 2014

Calif. 2-Year College Rethinks Policy Telling Employees Not to Talk to Media

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . Skyline College, a two-year institution in San Bruno, Calif., says it will re-evaluate a policy, in place since 2006, that instructs faculty and staff members not to talk to members of the news media, according to The Daily Journal, a newspaper in San Mateo, Calif.
The paper reported that the college, which is part of the San Mateo County Community College District, emailed employees last week to notify them of the policy. More...

23 mars 2014

Professor Prevails in Anti-Bias Lawsuit Over University’s Denial of Promotion

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . A federal jury in North Carolina on Thursday sided with a professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington who asserted in a lawsuit that the institution had discriminated against him by denying him a promotion based on his writings and religious views, the Star-News, a Wilmington newspaper, reported. More...

23 mars 2014

Colleges’ ‘Love-Hate Relationship’ With Rankings Pervades ACE Report

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/headcount-45.pngBy Eric Hoover. Except for those who’ve been vacationing on Neptune since last summer, most everyone’s heard about the Obama administration’s proposed college-ratings system, and the American Council on Education’s dislike of it. Whatever your view, it’s worth reading this new report from the ACE, which offers various objections to the plan. More...

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