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19 octobre 2015

Why students make silly mistakes in class (and what can be done)

The ConversationBy . Children often find it difficult to solve problems in the classroom, which can lead to silly errors being made. But are these mistakes made because of carelessness. More...
19 octobre 2015

Universities should give more services away for free – to prove their public worth

The ConversationBy . In this context, universities need to be thinking about widening their engagement with the public. The sector needs to think what it can offer to the average taxpayer, using the breadth of its expertise to be a resource for people’s everyday lives. More...
19 octobre 2015

Why there is value in on-campus living

The ConversationBy . Does living on campus support learning and student success?
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...
19 octobre 2015

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...

18 octobre 2015

As cost to attend UW-Madison rises, concerns about access grow as well

University Business Magazine logoSubmitted 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...

18 octobre 2015

Beer. But here?

University Business Magazine logoSubmitted 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...

18 octobre 2015

Can $25M get 500 poor kids to and through college?

University Business Magazine logoSubmitted 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...

18 octobre 2015

Universities aim to move ideas out of the ivory tower

University Business Magazine logoSubmitted 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...

18 octobre 2015

Is the era of abusive college coaches finally coming to an end?

University Business Magazine logoSubmitted by Stefanie Botelho. Just how thoroughly Simon Cvijanovic once identified as an Illinois football player sits right there in his Twitter handle. More...

18 octobre 2015

How colleges can measure up in teaching critical thinking

University Business Magazine logoSubmitted 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...

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