By Brian Mathews. Earlier I wrote about Carrie Donovan’s Keynote at the The Innovative Library Classroom Conference. There was another presentation that I found inspiring: Can You Kick It? Bringing Hip Hop Pedagogy To The Library Classroom by Craig Arthur, Instruction Librarian at Radford University. More...
By Peter Schmidt. A regional official of the National Labor Relations Board has held that New School students who work as graduate teaching or research assistants are ineligible to unionize as employees. More...
By Colleen Murphy. A report released on Tuesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau highlights continuing problems that military borrowers face when interacting with student-loan servicers. More...
By Kelly Field. With student debt playing a prominent role in the 2016 presidential campaign, the Obama administration is taking several steps to ease borrowers’ repayment burdens. More...
By Mary Ellen McIntire. Students’ academic paths are more varied than ever. Someone might earn a bachelor’s degree in English or history from a selective college, and then go on to General Assembly’s boot camp to get a coding degree or certificate. More...
By Andrew Mytelka. Blackboard, the giant provider of learning-management software, is for sale. According to the Reuters news agency, the privately held software company is seeking a buyer unfazed by an estimated $3-billion price tag. The company has hired two banks to conduct an auction to find such a buyer. Blackboard was taken private in a buyout four years ago. Since then, it has faced increased competition from educational-technology start-ups. More...
By Andrew Mytelka. Mohammad H. Qayoumi, whose aggressive moves in online education and campus technology drew sharp faculty criticism, announced on Monday that he would step down as president of San Jose State University next month in order to serve as chief technology adviser to the president of Afghanistan, reports the San Jose Mercury News. More...
By Don Troop. The U.S. House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation on Friday that would increase the National Institutes of Health’s budget by $8.75 billion over the next five years, The New York Times and The Washington Post reported on Friday. More...
By Don Troop. Sojourner-Douglass College has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Middle States Commission on Higher Education for revoking the institution’s accreditation over financial problems, The Baltimore Sun reports. In February the commission denied Sojourner-Douglass’s appeal of Middle States’ decision, announced last fall, and the predominantly black college was officially stripped of its accreditation on Tuesday. More...
By Nick DeSantis. A federal appeals court has dealt a setback to unpaid interns who had sued a movie studio over their compensation, The New York Times reported. More...
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