Universities should give more services away for free – to prove their public worth
Why there is value in on-campus living
As families consider the living options available to their college students and look at the costs of college education, what might not be as evident to them is how on-campus living can actually maximize their college investment. More...
Blending higher education into an uncertain future
By Stephen Coan. “You have got to get good at managing ongoing uncertainty,” was Laura Czerniewicz’s blunt message to higher education leaders at the biennial conference of the International Council for Open and Distance Education. Read more...
As cost to attend UW-Madison rises, concerns about access grow as well
Submitted by Tim Goral. Students at UW-Madison today pay more than twice as much on tuition, housing and other college-related costs as their Badger peers did three decades ago. More...
Beer. But here?
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Fans of professional sports teams would not have noticed anything out of the ordinary at Milan Puskar Stadium’s concession stands on a recent sunny Saturday afternoon. More...
Can $25M get 500 poor kids to and through college?
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. A group of rising high school seniors stood in a circle at Rutgers University-Newark’s campus, playing an icebreaker. Not that they needed it. The group had been living on campus together for three weeks, and already felt like family. More...
Universities aim to move ideas out of the ivory tower
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Shorya Awtar, an engineer, had an idea for a medical device that could help surgeons perform complex operations inside the body without cutting patients open — and that may be worth billions. More...
Is the era of abusive college coaches finally coming to an end?
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Just how thoroughly Simon Cvijanovic once identified as an Illinois football player sits right there in his Twitter handle. More...
How colleges can measure up in teaching critical thinking
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. After he became president of Purdue University in 2013, Mitch Daniels asked the faculty to prove that their students have actually achieved one of higher education’s most important goals: critical thinking skills. More...