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24 juillet 2018

Tennessee's Business College, Noodle Partners to Offer Master's Degree

HomeBy Doug Lederman. The University of Tennessee's Haslam College of Business will offer its first online master's degree, in supply chain management, through an arrangement with Noodle Partners. More...

24 juillet 2018

Pennsylvania Universities Seek Fees Tied to Sports Betting

HomeBy Doug Lederman. Universities that play big-time sports and professional sports franchises are asking Pennsylvania officials to give them a share of any revenues from sports gambling, which is poised to become legal in the state, The Morning Call reported. Pennsylvania State University and the University of Pittsburgh were among the entities that responded to a request for public comment from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board in the wake of the Supreme Court's May ruling striking down a federal law barring sports betting in most states. More...

24 juillet 2018

Time to Play: A New Cartoon Caption Contest

HomeBy Doug Lederman. Vote for your favorite among the three submissions for last month's cartoon recommended by our panel of judges. More...

24 juillet 2018

Mass. Lawmakers Blast Mount Ida Leaders on College Strategy

HomeBy Doug Lederman. Legislators in Massachusetts issued a scathing report Thursday questioning the series of decisions that led Mount Ida College to close and be taken over by the University of Massachusetts -- with threats of subpoenas and more scrutiny if the college's former officials don't offer good answers. More...

24 juillet 2018

Dream Center to End Enrollments at 30 Campuses

HomeBy Doug Lederman. The nonprofit organization that took over scores of colleges from the Education Management Corp. chain of for-profit colleges has decided to end enrollments at 30 of those campuses, according to an email circulated Monday to employees of the Dream Center Education Holdings. More...

24 juillet 2018

Florida St. Asserts State Superiority in… Graduation Rates?

HomeBy Doug Lederman. Florida State University and the University of Florida regularly compete for the hearts and minds of the state's football fans, as well as, of course, on the gridiron itself. More...

24 juillet 2018

A Quarter of Private Colleges Ran Deficits in 2017

HomeBy Doug Lederman. About 25 percent of private nonprofit colleges and universities spent more than they earned in the 2017 fiscal year, though net tuition revenue grew for the first time in three years, Moody's Investors Service said in its annual look at median financial performance. More...

24 juillet 2018

Watermark Adds Digital Measures to Network

HomeBy Doug Lederman. Watermark, the assessment company that arose from the merger last year of Taskstream, TK20 and LiveText, has agreed to fold Digital Measures (and its faculty reporting tool Activity Insight) into its business. More...

24 juillet 2018

A More Nuanced View of Law on Campus Speech

HomeBy Doug LedermanRaise your hand if you or one of your colleagues has expressed the view in the last year or two that "this generation of college and university students, and many of their professors, don’t understand freedom of speech"? (Yes, mine is up.) More...

24 juillet 2018

2U to Acquire Digital Annotation Platform CritiqueIt

HomeBy Doug Lederman. 2U is continuing its expansion, agreeing today to purchase CritiqueIt, whose platform enables real-time annotation of documents, images and other digital content by faculty members and students. More...

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