Increasing student success has moved high on the priority list at many institutions of higher education in the last five plus years. In their latest articulation of their vision, institutions have framed specific outcomes in student success. They have issued calls to action to measurably improve the institutional capability to help students complete their education. More...
People have been proclaiming the imminent extinction of the humanities for decades. A best-selling volume in 1964 warned that a science-focused world left no room for humane pursuits, even as Baby Boomers began to flood the English and history departments of new universities. Allan Bloom warned about academics putting liberal ideology before scholarship in 1987; humanities degrees quickly rose. While coverage of individual academic disciplines like musicology, history, or comparative literature often deals with the substance of scholarship, talk of the humanities in general always seems to focus on their imminent extinction. In 2010, Wayne Bivens-Tatum provided a useful walk through the first 50 years of the humanities crisis, until about 1980. Because of this long history, I’ve always been skeptical of claims that the humanities are in retreat. More...
L’AROFE (Agence Régionale de la Formation et l’Emploi) organise une conférence débat sur le thème "Former à l’ère de l’Intelligence Artificielle" le jeudi 27 septembre de 14h00 à Poitiers. Plus...https://screenshots.firefox.com/VOCc25HzpdvwccSh/www.arftlv.org
L'Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA) dispense, en formation initiale ou continue, un enseignement supérieur visant la maîtrise des problématiques, des usages et des techniques du secteur audiovisuel, du son dans le secteur de la radio et de la télévision et désormais de la création de contenus animés, audiovisuels et interactifs (graphisme). Plus...Also known as the University of the South, the liberal-arts school in the Tennessee mountains was conceived by slave owners who didn’t want their sons going North for an education, and many ex-Confederates taught there after the Civil War. More...
In order to have a rewarding college experience, students should build a constellation of mentors. More...
We're thrilled to announce that we have selected 18 universities from around the world as recipients of the 2018-2019 Amazon Alexa Fellowship, fueling the future of conversational AI research, education, and entrepreneurship. More...
President Donald Trump plans to nominate Bob King, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, to fill a major post in the U.S. Department of Education. More...
When the strategy is that staff reach out to students rather than wait for students to come to them, some colleges experience higher retention rates, which, in turn, helps the bottom line. More...
Earlier this month, the Department of Education announced that it would rescind the Obama administration’s “Gainful Employment” (GE) rule, which penalized certain higher education programs that graduated students with too much debt relative to their earnings. More...
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