In 2015, the state of Hawaii committed to converting 100% of its energy supply to renewables by 2045. It’s a steep undertaking, and one that will involve utilities coordinating resources across a network of grids that span the island. More...
Southeast welcomes pet friendly community beginning fall 2018
As lifestyle needs and student expectations of today’s college population are changing, Southeast Missouri State University has announced a new pet friendly community coming online in fall 2018 on select floors of Myers Hall. More...
UMass acquires Mount Ida College
Mount Ida College is closing at the end of the spring term and handing over its prime 74-acre Newton campus to the University of Massachusetts in exchange for the system taking on the small private college’s debt. More...
Campus Labs to acquire Chalk & Wire
Campus Labs announced today it will be acquiring Chalk & Wire to further expand the company’s comprehensive analytics platform. The addition of Chalk & Wire—a leading provider of learning assessment tools and credentialing solutions—will allow Campus Labs to provide enhanced and integrated ways to assess student learning, while also adding credentialing tools to help unlock the power of student learning across varied, measurable learning paths. More...
4 of 10 Okla. students need remediation in college
Forty percent of Oklahoma's public high school graduates are not prepared for college-level work in at least one subject area when they arrive on campus, a new report shows. More...
Building skills outside the classroom with new ways of learning
What differentiates the Mayfield Innovation Center from traditional classrooms is evident not just in the virtual reality technology, the 3-D printers or the open architecture that make the two-floor, 30,000-square-foot building seem less of a secondary school than a Google satellite office. More...
Trump administration seeks to open Harvard admissions files
The Trump administration on Friday urged a federal judge to allow for the public disclosure of records related to Harvard’s admissions practices, as part of a lawsuit accusing the elite school of bias against Asian-American applicants. More...
UNC Charlotte and Tresata partner
In celebration of Public Health Week, UNC Charlotte and Tresata announced a far reaching new partnership designed to make Charlotte, N.C. one of the healthiest cities in the world by 2025. More...
New rules of engagement in higher ed
If your marketing teams are not taking advantage of the multitude of ways to personalize digital content to increase lead capture, enrollment and retention, you may be seeing the impact in your acceptance and yield figures. More...
University has an obligation to tell former president’s full story
That side is the one who came to Orono in 1922 and helped grow the university, building Memorial Gym and Field House and Stevens Hall, and starting “Freshman Week” orientation, something copied by just about every college and university today. More...