By Stefanie Botelho. The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and the Data Quality Campaign (DQC), along with 30 leading national education organizations representing parents, teachers, principals, superintendents, state boards of education, chief technology officers and many others, today released 10 principles for protecting and guiding the use of the personal information of America’s students. More...
By Kristin Hohenadel. Thomas Heatherwick is the London-based architect whose Heatherwick Studio has produced the 2012 London Olympics’ hammered copper cauldron, a futuristic version of London’s double-decker bus, plans for a Garden Bridge that would provide a grace note of urban flora for pedestrians crossing the Thames, and the new Googleplex in Silicon Valley. More...
By Blaine Greteman. On college campuses across America this spring chipper tour guides will bustle high-school seniors and their parents around all the big sites: the dorms, high-tech classrooms, vast libraries, and the flashy new rec centers, with their now-standard lazy rivers and flat-screen TVs. This is closing season, when colleges try to turn “accepted” students into “deposited” ones—admissions-speak for students who have cut their first check to the university. More...
By CCAP. By any objective measure, our system of federal student financial assistance for college students has been an unmitigated disaster. With federal assistance to students now exceeding $160 billion a year, a nine-fold increase since 1970 in inflation-adjusted terms, the magnitudes of our national commitment to higher education is large even for a $17 trillion economy. More...
By . Ryan Gassett had already put in a full day, moving heavy boxes and furniture for $15 an hour, when his introductory welding class began at 10 p.m. By the time he arrived at Lone Star College north of Houston, the highway toll collectors at the exit for the school had closed for the night and the campus janitors were mopping bathrooms. Read more...
By . Last Friday, Gail O. Mellow, the president of LaGuardia Community College, a two-year institution in Queens with 50,000 students, received an unexpected call. It was Lloyd C. Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, who surprised her with the news that the bank was giving the school $2 million. No restrictions applied. Read more...
By Jonathan Mahler. During a brief recess in an honors course at Eastern Michigan University last fall, a teaching assistant approached the class’s three female professors. “I think you need to see this,” she said, tapping the icon of a furry yak on her iPhone. Read more...
By David Leonhardt. Three years ago, technology was going to transform higher education. What happened?
Over the course of a few months in early 2012, leading scientists from Harvard, Stanford and M.I.T. started three companies to provide Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, to anyone in the world with an Internet connection. The courses were free. Millions of students signed up. Read more...
Wellesley College is joining a growing list of women's colleges that accept transgender students.
President H. Kim Bottomly and trustees' chairwoman Laura Daignault Gates said in a letter Wednesday that "Wellesley will consider for admission any applicant who lives as a woman and consistently identifies as a woman." More...
By Julian L. Alssid. Without most people noticing, last week contrasted two events that, I believe, offer an alternate future for learning and higher education.
One happened in the bucolic shadows of the Shenandoah Mountains in rural Virginia. From the picture-postcard campus of century-old Sweet Briar College -- a respected, women's liberal arts college -- came a startling announcement:
"We are closing." Out of the blue. More...
By Maxwell Tani. That’s essentially what three University of Arizona students said state Sen. Kelli Ward (R) told them during a private discussion over a proposed $75 million state funding cut to higher education. More...
By Julian L. Alssid. Without most people noticing, last week contrasted two events that, I believe, offer an alternate future for learning and higher education.
One happened in the bucolic shadows of the Shenandoah Mountains in rural Virginia. From the picture-postcard campus of century-old Sweet Briar College -- a respected, women's liberal arts college -- came a startling announcement:
"We are closing." Out of the blue. More...
By Maxwell Tani. That’s essentially what three University of Arizona students said state Sen. Kelli Ward (R) told them during a private discussion over a proposed $75 million state funding cut to higher education. More...
By Julian L. Alssid. Without most people noticing, last week contrasted two events that, I believe, offer an alternate future for learning and higher education.
One happened in the bucolic shadows of the Shenandoah Mountains in rural Virginia. From the picture-postcard campus of century-old Sweet Briar College -- a respected, women's liberal arts college -- came a startling announcement:
"We are closing." Out of the blue. More...
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