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1 mars 2016

Why there are no limits to your willpower

By Nigel Newton. We’ve all experienced those moments when we’ve been working really hard on a task, finally finish and feel like a well-deserved break so we grab a coffee and relax for a few moments. What goes through your mind next. More...

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29 février 2016

PwC tells universities to adapt or perish

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. There are clear signs that digital disruption is transforming universities and leaving behind those that can’t adapt fast enough. Not surprisingly this seems to be more apparent to students, who come from the generation of digital natives, than to many university academics and administrators. More...

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29 février 2016

Higher ed ‘revolution’ hard to predict, but on the way

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. While it’s hard to say when higher education will be on the other side of a major shift and what, exactly, it will look like then, Richard DeMillo, Georgia Tech computing professor and author of “Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable,” believes the ‘revolution’ is inevitable. More...

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29 février 2016

University of Missouri considering legality of union for grad students

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The University of Missouri is looking into whether a graduate student employee union at the university would be legal, interim president Michael Middleton said. More...

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29 février 2016

The elusive goal of on-time graduation

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Angie Anderson loves being a college student. She just doesn’t want to be one forever. More...

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29 février 2016

Putting the hire in higher education

By Stefanie Botelho. When one hears the term higher education, in theory the use of the word “higher” should be a reference to a student gaining higher knowledge, higher skills and higher proficiencies that will ultimately lead them to higher incomes over their working careers. More...

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28 février 2016

Some like it hot

By Theresa Sullivan Barger. How colleges are getting creative about energy supply to save money on heating and cooling, and to boost building comfort for occupants. More...

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28 février 2016

Facilities providers on heating and cooling fallacies

By Theresa Sullivan Barger. What’s the biggest misconception administrators outside the facilities department tend to have related to heating and cooling campus buildings. More...

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28 février 2016

Oral Roberts tracks students’ every step

By Tim Goral. All first-year students must buy and wear a Fitbit fitness-tracker. While some critics called this requirement an overreach, school officials say Oral Roberts has long had a fitness component as part of its “Whole Person Education,” which focuses on mind, body and spirit. More...

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28 février 2016

Kill the 5-Paragraph Essay

By John Warner. Let’s just go ahead and kill the 5-paragraph essay at all levels, everywhere.
Seriously. Let’s end it. We can have essays that happen to be 5-paragraphs long, but there shall be no more “5-paragraph essays.” Read more...

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