Staying true to their vision of building authentic, enterprise grade software, Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM), the pioneer in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), has today launched its Global Academia Program, to empower students with the skills they need to participate in and shape the future of work. More...
UMass acquires Mount Ida College
Mount Ida College is closing at the end of the spring term and handing over its prime 74-acre Newton campus to the University of Massachusetts in exchange for the system taking on the small private college’s debt. More...
Campus Labs to acquire Chalk & Wire
Campus Labs announced today it will be acquiring Chalk & Wire to further expand the company’s comprehensive analytics platform. The addition of Chalk & Wire—a leading provider of learning assessment tools and credentialing solutions—will allow Campus Labs to provide enhanced and integrated ways to assess student learning, while also adding credentialing tools to help unlock the power of student learning across varied, measurable learning paths. More...
Jitterbit empowers higher learning institutions
Jitterbit, the API transformation company, today announced that its integration platform has been certified to empower higher learning institutions to connect all of their data and applications to the Salesforce platform using its purpose-built Higher Education Data Architecture (HEDA). More...
Texas A&M University College of Engineering adopts Liaison's EngineeringCAS
Liaison International, the leader in higher education admissions management and enrollment marketing, announced today that Texas A&M University's College of Engineering has joined EngineeringCAS for the 2018-2019 application cycle for masters and doctorate level graduate engineering admissions. More...
Northwest Lineman College reaps benefits of Quanta acquisition
The acquisition of Northwest Lineman College by Fortune 500 company Quanta Services, Inc. earlier this year seems to only mean good things for the trade school so far, about three months into the “unique marriage,” as the Oroville campus president refers to it. More...
Smart business processes to offset higher ed enrollment challenges
Alarming demographic shifts mean university admissions departments are facing a new reality. By 2026, it is predicted that the number of college-aged students will drop almost 15 percent – much of this driven by a plummet in births due to the Great Recession of 2008. More...
Going private would give Oxford and Cambridge what they want: impunity
The new universities regulator has rattled the elites, who would probably rather operate above the law. More...
Is Academia.edu Worth $99 A Year?
By Joshua Kim. Online reputation tracking for alt-acs, and the monetization of the higher ed status economy. More...
3 Reasons Why Kids In Business Class Is Annoying
By Joshua Kim. And how this could possibly relate to higher ed. More...