By Stefanie Botelho. When it became clear that the scientific equipment in hundreds of labs across the University of Pittsburgh campus was not being maintained effectively, professionals in the university procurement department began looking for a new provider to do the job. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Apollo Education Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: APOL) announced its wholly-owned subsidiary Apollo Global, Inc. closed on the acquisition of an 81 percent consolidated interest in Milpark Education (Pty) Ltd. (“Milpark Education”), one of South Africa's leading private tertiary education providers, for approximately ZAR 265 million (USD 25.6 million based on current exchange rates). More...

By Stefanie Botelho. The Moodle community and Moodle HQ have delivered a more user-friendly and effective learning platform with the latest version of Moodle – Moodle 2.7. One of the world’s most popular open source learning platform - used by more than 70,000 companies, schools and organisations worldwide – Moodle 2.7 brings a suite of new features, improved tools and streamlined workflows to administrators, educators and students. The free Moodle learning platform continues to strengthen with several new capabilities and improvements. More...

By Carol Patton. As HR professionals, you track all sorts of activities—such as onboarding and employee turnover. While these types of production metrics are important, HR needs to start measuring the effectiveness of its own programs and activities. For example, you may know the number of employees who completed a supervisory training course, but that’s just a one-dimensional metric. You need to determine whether the participants became more skilled at managing others to gauge the course’s true impact in the workplace. More...

By Sonya Stinson. As costly as tuition and textbooks can be, poor planning and time management can raise the prices even higher. Richard O’Connor, director of financial aid at American International College in Massachusetts, says students at that institution have several options for saving on books. More...

By Sonya Stinson. From managing loans to controlling spending, many college students find themselves dealing with a host of financial responsibilities for the very first time. And it’s not uncommon for them to trip up. Campus financial literacy programs can help students steer clear of some of their most common financial mistakes. The challenge for educators is to find creative and clever ways to get their attention. More...

By Marc C. Whitt. In our efforts to market and communicate with our various constituents, we often overlook one of the most important support groups we have—our college town. It’s not intentional. As long time neighbors, we simply take one another for granted. But that’s changing as institutions and their local governments look to one another for creative ways to collaborate and maximize financial and capital resources. More...

By Matt Zalaznick. A potentially positive higher ed economic indicator is that more institutions purchased student information systems in 2013 than had done so in any year since 2008, according to a recent market analysis by The Tambellini Group. Two of the main reasons given for the 195 purchases were the need to update outdated software and to replace homegrown systems. More...