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30 septembre 2015

Obama scorecard proves we all need a liberal education

University Business Magazine logoBy Stefanie Botelho. My father was a serious baseball fan, appreciating the beauty of the game he had played seriously as a young man. While he understood stats and scorecards, knowing even the most beautiful of numbers was not what he thought baseball was about. More...

30 septembre 2015

University using technology to help fight human trafficking

University Business Magazine logoBy Stefanie Botelho. According to the Department of Justice, St. Louis is a hub for human trafficking, but there is no centralized data base that quantifies or even maps the problem. That’s where Dr. Rumi Price from Washington University School of Medicine comes in. She and her team along with the University of Missouri – Columbia are working to map it out. More...

30 septembre 2015

New Jersey college starts social media expertise center

University Business Magazine logoBy Stefanie Botelho. As more jobs require applicants to have an expertise in social media, Centenary College is opening a new academic center to train students and the public in the use of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other platforms. More...

30 septembre 2015

Education Department announces open educational resources hire

University Business Magazine logoBy Stefanie Botelho. The Education Department is making good on its promise to make online content openly licensed and free to teachers, parents and administrators who want to use it for educational purposes. More...

30 septembre 2015

Law bans golden parachutes for community college brass

University Business Magazine logoBy Stefanie Botelho. The measure bars the trustees of community colleges from approving similar deals for departing executives. It would prohibit any agreement that costs more than one year's salary and it limits contracts for presidents to four years. More...

30 septembre 2015

OnlyBoth benchmarks 1,899 private colleges

University Business Magazine logoBy Stefanie Botelho. OnlyBoth today launched its collegiate financial benchmarking engine, which enables unbiased comparisons among 1,899 private, post-secondary educational institutions across the United States. Using federal data on colleges that follow the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) accounting standards, the new website highlights the power of benchmarking engines and the applications of automated writing. More...

30 septembre 2015

Guidance for competency based education experimental site released

University Business Magazine logoBy Stefanie Botelho. The Obama Administration has worked steadily to increase access to and completion of high quality degrees for students of all ages and backgrounds. One specific thrust has been to remove barriers that stand in the way of innovation in higher education, including those that prevent promising new educational models from expanding. Competency based education (CBE) is one example of a promising new delivery model with the potential to improve degree completion, reduce costs to students and improve transparency and alignment of learning outcomes to the needs of employers and society. More...

30 septembre 2015

Colleges join together on safety app

University Business Magazine logoBy Stefanie Botelho. Millersville University, Elizabethtown College, and Franklin & Marshall College have joined efforts to promote greater campus security with the launch of LiveSafe, the leading mobile technology solution that is heralding a paradigm shift toward a campus culture of safety at colleges across the country. More...

29 septembre 2015

Gov. Nixon announces increased funding for higher education

University Business Magazine logoBy Stefanie Botelho. Gov. Jay Nixon announced Monday a 6 percent increase in funding for the higher education system in Missouri. More...

29 septembre 2015

Udacity partners with Google to expand nanodegree program to India

University Business Magazine logoBy Stefanie Botelho. Online education company Udacity will start offering classes tailored to Indian students, marking the startup’s first effort to target a country outside the U.S. More...

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