Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business and TechGirlz today announced a wide-ranging partnership designed to expand the number of middle school girls receiving technology instruction. More...
Facebook and the very real problem of keeping student data private
Facebook is struggling with a serious scandal in which it says that “malicious actors” took advantage of search tools on its platform, allowing them to identify and collect data on most of the 2 billion people around the world who use Facebook. That, of course, includes a lot of children. More...
FlatWorld unveils 11 new textbook editions
FlatWorld, a publisher of the most affordable high-quality college textbooks, today announced that it has published 11 new textbook editions in the first quarter of 2018. More...
Disaster mitigation through job training
Dealing with the fallout from both natural and man-made disasters is not something new for the administration, employees and students at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (MGCCC). More...
U. of Mich. lecturers hold off on strike for now
The nearly-1,700 members of the lecturers' union at the University of Michigan will go to class tomorrow morning like normal and not head out on strike. More...
Downtown Salt Lake City chosen to be lab for ‘smart city’ wireless technology
The next generation of wireless technology is coming, promising everything from faster data to self-driving cars — and Salt Lake City is one of the first stops. More...
D2L's Brightspace offers new ways to organize and manage professional development
D2L today announces a Professional Development (PD) offering for Higher Education. The Brightspace learning platform can now be used to provide seven ways to organize and manage professional learning. More...
When you cut the humanities, what you lose is the human
A few months after the end of spring quarter classes in 2016, one of my former Northwestern University students emailed that he had found an old copy of the essays of 16th-century French philosopher Michel de Montaigne on a trip to France. More...
Trump University settlement now final as objector drops appeal
A federal judge on Monday signed off on a $25 million agreement to settle fraud claims arising from Trump University, the now-defunct education venture of U.S. President Donald Trump, after a former student agreed to drop further appeals. More...
As college costs rise, some Texas students go hungry. Will food scholarships help?
Joel Philistin, a financial coach at Houston Community College, has had students come to his office hungry. Not on-a-diet hungry, or only-eating-ramen-noodles hungry. But so hungry they can’t concentrate in class. More...