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23 mars 2014

Using Data to Win Your Office’s ‘March Madness’ Pool

By Jonah Newman. It’s that time of year when your office mates start saying “bracketology,” when everyone claims to know all about college basketball, and questionable research says businesses stand to lose an estimated $1.2-billion in productivity for every hour employees spend focused on the NCAA tournament instead of their jobs. It’s also the time of year when some news organizations try to tell you how to use statistics to fill out your bracket and win your office pool (or, this year, $1-billion from Warren Buffett and Quicken Loans). More...

23 mars 2014

Raises for Public-College Faculty Edge Past Those at Private Colleges

subscribe todayBy Audrey Williams June. For the first time in at least six years, the median base salary of professors at public colleges increased at a greater rate than that of their private-college counterparts, according to an annual report released this week by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. The median increase for tenured and tenure-track faculty members at public institutions in the 2014 fiscal year was 2.2 percent, compared with 2.0 percent at private colleges. Over all, the median base salary for tenured and tenure-track professors in 2014 rose 2.1 percent from the year before, the same increase as a year ago. Read more...

23 mars 2014

Data Breaches Put a Dent in Colleges’ Finances as Well as Reputations

subscribe todayBy Megan O'Neil. The costs of a cyberattack on the University of Maryland that was made public last month will run into the millions of dollars, according to data-security professionals who work in higher education. Such a financial and reputational wallop threatens many colleges that are vulnerable to serious data breaches, experts say. Crystal Brown, chief communications officer at Maryland, says an investigation into the theft of 309,079 student and personnel records, dating to 1998, is being led by the U.S. Secret Service. Read more...

23 mars 2014

New ‘gainful employment’ proposal sparks criticism

By Ben Wolfgang. The Obama administration is facing a torrent of criticism over its new “gainful employment” rule, a sweeping regulation designed to crack down on for-profit colleges, while protecting taxpayer money from being wasted. The for-profit sector, along with Republicans and some Democrats on Capitol Hill, have slammed the new proposal, arguing it will eliminate higher-education opportunities for many Americans at a time when well-trained workers are needed more than ever. Read more...

23 mars 2014

Call to boost academic ties with Latin America, Mexico

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Nic Mitchell. The United Kingdom is proving increasingly attractive to mobile students from Latin America and Mexico, a seminar hosted by the Westminster Higher Education Forum in London heard this month. Best known among a number of initiatives to encourage students to study abroad in the region is the Brazilian government's ambitious scholarship programme, Science without Borders. Read more...
23 mars 2014

Obama Administration Takes Action to Protect Americans from Predatory, Poor-Performing Career Colleges

Ed.gov logoNew 'gainful employment' proposal targets training programs that saddle students with debt but provide few opportunities for success.
The Obama Administration announced today new steps to address growing concerns about burdensome student loan debt by requiring career colleges to do a better job of preparing students for gainful employment—or risk losing access to taxpayer-funded federal student aid.
The proposed regulations released by the U.S. Department of Education will help to strengthen students' options for higher education by giving all career training programs an opportunity to improve, while stopping the flow of federal funding to the lowest-performing ones that fail to do so. More...

23 mars 2014

Washington College names new vice president for student affairs

Xavier Alexander Cole, who has nearly 20 years of experience shaping student life and development, is joining the Washington College staff as vice president for student affairs, according to a new release the college sent out Friday, March 14. He will manage the student affairs staff and oversee all aspects of student life, including athletics, student activities, career development, community service, drug and alcohol education, Greek life, health services, multicultural affairs, residential life and student conduct. More...

23 mars 2014

What Isn't Broken in American Higher Education?

By Bill Destler. Some day, I am going to write a book in which I will discuss the laws that govern academia in America, and one of them will be: "U.S. higher education is widely regarded as the best in the world, which is why so many people want to change it." There is real truth in this statement. Even though hundreds of thousands of international students come to the U.S. each year to pursue college degrees here, often at enormous personal sacrifice, American higher education is increasingly under attack by politicians and the media. More...

23 mars 2014

Interactive: How Influential Is Your School?

By . Forget March Madness. We're scoring schools by the prominence of their alumni. For the next three weeks, many American universities will be measured up exclusively by the strength of their basketball programs. But for those less impressed by “a group of pituitary cases trying to stuff a ball down a hoop,” as one Annie Hall player once put it, TIME has devised an alternate way to score schools: by the influence of their alumni. To start, we rounded up the 107,408 living people whose Wikipedia profiles list at least one alma mater in the U.S., and scored each according to the length and breadth of his or her page on the site—the bigger the number, the greater the influence (more on that below). More...

23 mars 2014

Rethinking the Role of Community Colleges

By . As more students see the two-year schools as a step toward a four-year degree, California tries to smooth the way.
"I think this is one of the most important issues that we have," National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling said ahead of a White House higher-education and social-mobility event last month. More...

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