By Ann Hulbert. More than half of community-college students never earn a degree. Here's how to fix that.
When Daquan McGee got accepted to the Borough of Manhattan Community College in the spring of 2010, he was 19 and still finding his footing after a two-year prison sentence for attempted robbery. He signed up for the standard battery of placement tests in reading, writing, and math; took them cold; and failed two—writing and math. Steered into summer developmental education (otherwise known as remediation), he enrolled in an immersion writing course, which he passed while working full-time at a Top Tomato Super Store. Then McGee learned of a program for which a low-income student like him might qualify, designed to maximize his chances of earning a degree. At a late-summer meeting, he got the rundown on the demands he would face. More...

Like all leaders of American colleges and universities these days, Massachusetts Bay Community College President John O’Donnell is under pressure to increase graduation rates and turn out students ready for jobs. And like a small but growing number of his counterparts around the country, O’Donnell has a new incentive to meet these goals: His salary partly depends on it. Suite...

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VIRTUAL EDUCA PERÚ 2014,  Museo de la Nación, Lima, Perú 09-13 de junio, 2014
El Ministerio de Educación (MINEDU) del Perú, la Secretaría General de la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) y la Secretaría General de Virtual Educa convocan el XV Encuentro internacional Virtual Educa, que tendrá lugar en Lima durante los días 09 a 13 de junio, 2014.
Bienvenidos/as todas/os al XV Encuentro internacional Virtual Educa, que celebraremos en la ciudad de Lima, Perú, del 09 al 13 de junio de 2014.
Esta edición de nuestro Encuentro internacional tiene un sabor especial, ya que es el quince aniversario de lo que se inició como una reunión de expertos y responsables institucionales en Madrid, España, en el año 2000.
Avanzada la segunda década del SXXI, parece que los principios del milenio quedan muy atrás. Sin embargo es muy breve el tiempo transcurrido desde que nos preguntábamos si el día 1 de enero del año 2000 supondría un colapso de las computadoras y redes a nivel planetario, o empezábamos a ser conscientes de que la globalización y el cambio de paradigma iba a modificar la realidad en que vivimos.

ACE (American Council on Education) - 96th Annual Meeting - Conference Hotel:  Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego 1 Market Place San Diego, CA 92101.  
The ACE Annual Meeting is where presidents, chancellors, and other senior-level leaders meet to discuss trends and promising practices with colleagues across all sectors of higher education. Leaders have access to experts and workshops that provide practical resources and tools to aid day-to-day decision making, as well as long-term strategic planning. ACE’s 2014 Annual Meeting will be held in San Diego, California, at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel.

ACE welcomes:

• Presidents, chancellors, and all campus/system chief executive officers
• Chief academic officers
• Members of the senior executive team, including:
  • Vice presidents/vice chancellors
  • Government relations officers
  • General Counsels
  • Chief diversity officers
  • Presidential assistants/chiefs of staff
• Deans
• Directors
• Current full-time graduate students

ACE welcomes international participants to join the conversation
ACE welcomes university presidents, vice presidents, rectors, and directors, as well as education ministry officials and embassy staff, to attend the 96th Annual Meeting and special events developed to advance global dialogue regarding postsecondary education.

Discounts for those attending NAPAHE and NADOHE
ACE partners with two higher education organizations during the Annual Meeting and offers discounts to those who attend the ACE meeting and one of the partnering associations’ meetings:

• National Association of Presidential Assistants in Higher Education (NAPAHE)
• National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE)

By David Kocieniewski. Signs of the energy business are inescapable in and around Houston — the pipelines, refineries and tankers that crowd the harbor, and the gleaming office towers where oil companies and energy traders have transformed the skyline. And in a squat glass building on the University of Houston campus, a measure of the industry’s pre-eminence can also be found in the person of Craig Pirrong, a professor of finance, who sits at the nexus of commerce and academia. More...

By Marion Lloyd. Michelle Bachelet, who won Chile’s presidency in a landslide on Sunday, has vowed to overhaul her country’s economic model to deal with endemic inequality. And she plans to start by providing free higher education for all. It’s a radical departure from the current system, in which the government accounts for just 15 percent of the sector’s total funding. That share is among the lowest in the world and is less than half that of the United States, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD. More...