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3 octobre 2015

A Push to Send Students Abroad

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. Few if any of the attendees at a summit on increasing study abroad participation would need to be convinced of study abroad’s value, but a key theme of discussions on Thursday was the need to better communicate that value to others. Read more...

3 octobre 2015

Early Action Backlash

HomeBy Scott Jaschik. A few years back, many seeking to reform college admissions focused on early decision, under which applicants pledge to enroll if admitted, and both apply and find out if they got in months before the normal schedule. Read more...

3 octobre 2015

Tragedy at Umpqua

HomeBy Paul Fain. Oregon’s Umpqua Community College on Thursday became the site of the third-most-deadly mass shooting ever to occur on a college campus. Read more...

3 octobre 2015

Default Rates Drop

HomeBy Michael Stratford. The share of federal student loan borrowers who default on their debt within three years of entering repayment dropped for the second year in a row, the U.S. Department of Education announced Wednesday. Read more...

3 octobre 2015

New Push on Bankruptcy Protections

HomeBy Michael Stratford. In a report released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Education, administration officials outlined a range of recommendations for improving the nation’s student loan system, most of which require congressional action. Read more...

3 octobre 2015

'Texting Pushes People's Buttons'

HomeBy Carl Straumsheim. It’s a familiar scenario at many colleges: a professor sends a student an email containing important information about a course, but the message gets lost in an inbox flooded with news about blood drives, intramural softball and spam. Read more...

3 octobre 2015

'Predatory' Publishing Up

HomeBy Carl Straumsheim. The rise of open-access publishing, combined with pressure on academics to get published, has caused a spectacular increase in the number of articles spewed out by “predatory” journals, according to researchers at Finland’s Hanken School of Economics. Read more...

3 octobre 2015

Are They Learning?

HomeBy Doug Lederman. The debate over how much actual learning is taking place on college campuses is a historically heated one, as is the related discussion about how to measure that learning. Read more...

3 octobre 2015

More Than a Postdoc

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Many humanities and social science Ph.D.s leave graduate school and are thrust into adjunct employment as they seek out more permanent positions. Others take on postdoctoral fellowships -- essentially full-time teaching or research gigs -- under one or two-year contracts that may offer little in the way of mentorship. Read more...

3 octobre 2015

Small Loans, Big Problem

HomeBy Paul Fain. Community colleges are relatively affordable, and their students tend to borrow less than those who attend other types of institutions. Yet the debt students rack up at community colleges is troubling. Read more...

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