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5 juillet 2015

Student failures beset Ivy Tech

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Ivy Tech Community College is on the verge of no longer being a provider for some state workforce training and education programs because many of its students are not succeeding.
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5 juillet 2015

How colleges stop depressed students from returning to campus

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Early in the morning on Oct. 10, 2014, Dave woke up to the Northwestern University campus police knocking on his dorm room door. They were there to tell Dave, a visiting student at the school, that he had received an urgent no-contact order.
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5 juillet 2015

Check out this university’s special staircase for people texting

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Utah’s largest public university is attempting to teach students to watch where they’re going by designating a special lane for people who text while walking up stairs.
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5 juillet 2015

American University faces big housing crunch this fall

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. American University faces an on-campus housing shortage this fall. The school accepted more students than it has room for, ABC 7 reports.
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5 juillet 2015

Sightlines to host summit for higher ed facilities, finance executives

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Sightlines, a leader in helping academic institutions better manage their facilities and capital investment strategies, will host its first-ever member conference for higher ed executives on November 9-11, 2015, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Newport, R.I.
For more information about the inaugural Sightlines Insight Summit, please go to http://www.sightlines.com/insights/insights-summit-15/.

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5 juillet 2015

Where college is free, children of uneducated parents still don’t go

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. There’s a saying in famously egalitarian Norway that Curt Rice, the American-born incoming president of the country’s third-biggest university, likes to rattle off: “We’re all sitting in the same boat.”
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5 juillet 2015

Weigh pitfalls of employer-college partnerships

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Brandi King, a health plan adviser for Anthem, Inc, eagerly awaited the announcement from the higher-ups.
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5 juillet 2015

Higher ed spending gap narrows between state, federal government

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Between 1987 and 2012, states provided an average of 65 percent more funding for higher education than the federal government. But according to a new report by Pew Charitable Trust, that gap has narrowed considerably since the recession, with federal funding on the rise as state funding declines.
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5 juillet 2015

Senators look to close broadband gap for schools with Digital Learning Equity Act

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. United States Senators Angus King (I-Maine) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.) have introduced the Digital Learning Equity Act of 2015 as a way to improve broadband access and close what they call an education gap for all students. More...

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5 juillet 2015

Smart Poor Kids Are Less Likely to Graduate From College Than Middling Rich Kids

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. In case you needed a reminder that the deck is stacked against poor kids in this country, University of Michigan professor Susan Dynarski has offered a simple and grim illustration of that fact at the New York Times. More...

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