Today, college students are saddled with more student loan debt than ever before in American history. The average student loan debt for 2017 graduates was over $39,000, which is a six percent uptick from 2016. More...
Southeastern Oklahoma State University selects Ellucian’s Colleague
Southeastern Oklahoma State University (Southeastern) selected Ellucian’s Colleague for its enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. More...
ADHD drugs do not improve cognition in healthy college students
Contrary to popular belief across college campuses, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications may fail to improve cognition in healthy students and actually can impair functioning, according to a study by researchers at the University of Rhode Island and Brown University. More...
Loyola Marymount University taps Echo360
Loyola Marymount University, one of the nation's largest private Catholic universities, has selected the Echo360 cloud-based video platform for over 100 classrooms, providing students with reliable access to lectures in real time, before, during, and after class. More...
Judge sides with U. of Iowa Christian student group accused of discrimination
A Christian student group kicked off the University of Iowa campus last year for barring a gay student from becoming a leader will be allowed to continue functioning as a registered student organization — despite a UI request it lose that status by the end of June. More...
College boards discuss potential affiliation
Discussion of potential affiliation dominated a joint meeting Tuesday between community leaders and members of the Salina Area Technical College Board of Trustees and Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus dean’s advisory council. More...
Facebook hires top university brains to boost AI labs
Facebook has hired five top university professors in the US and the UK as part of an effort to strengthen its artificial intelligence research division. More...
How individualized emails increase classroom performance
“No professor has ever cared about me.” This was a sentence in an email I received from a struggling student in my Physiology of the Immune System course, an upper-division elective course in the Physiology Department at the University of Arizona in Tucson. More...
Michigan State turning old power plant into science center
Michigan State University plans to turn an old power plant built in the 1940s into a place to learn science, technology, engineering and math. More...
College of Charleston partners with Aruba Mobile-First Network
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE: HPE), today announced that the College of Charleston, the oldest college in South Carolina and one of the oldest in the United States, has deployed an Aruba mobile-first network to deliver secure, high-performance wireless access across its 900 acre urban campus including 130+ buildings, outdoor meeting areas, its plantation research area, athletic fields and arenas. More...