By Jacqueline Thomsen. While university officials often find themselves answering questions about ethical issues and faculty members teach ethics courses, many wonder if colleges and universities spend enough time considering the ethics behind their decisions. Read more...
By Elizabeth Redden. Business is booming in Brazil for DeVry Education Group, an Illinois-based, publicly traded for-profit education company.
DeVry reports that it enrolls more than 58,000 degree-seeking students in Brazil, plus another 53,000 students in test preparatory programs there. Read more...
By Kellie Woodhouse. There’s not much Elizabeth Warren and Chris Christie agree on. But last week they struck a similar chord in speeches that knocked increasingly common and luxurious college amenities like climbing walls and lazy rivers. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. The American Association of University Professors voted Saturday to censure the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and three other institutions, while protesting planned changes -- pushed by Republican lawmakers -- to tenure and shared governance within the University of Wisconsin System. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. It’s hard these days to talk about women in philosophy without talking about sexual harassment and assault and sexism in general. Whether conditions for women in the discipline are actually worse than they are in the humanities overall is up for debate and likely impossible to quantify, but philosophy has attracted much criticism in recent years for what some have called a systemic discrimination problem. Read more...
By Carl Straumsheim. A group of renowned disability studies scholars are seeking to clarify what makes a book accessible with a set of guidelines that authors can use to help publishers make their books readable by anyone. Read more...
By Carl Straumsheim. Online learning platforms are out of tune with creative arts education, according to the ed-tech start-up Kadenze.
Its platform, which launches today, aims to become a hub for online courses in art, design, music and other disciplines underrepresented online. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. For years, advocates for colleges to do more to prevent and punish sexual assault on campus have cited a 2007 federal statistic that one in five female students experience sexual assault in college. President Obama and members of Congress have used the statistic, as have many others. But the statistic has been questioned for as long as it has been around. Read more...
A lire dans JDN quelques chiffres sur le marché des ventes de stockage. 28,3 milliards de giga-octets ont été vendus au 1er trimestre 2015 soit 41,4% de plus que l’an dernier à la même période. Conjointement, le prix de l’octet a lui diminué, ne permettant pas au chiffre d’affaire des leaders de décoller aussi facilement.
En savoir + :: Les capacités de stockage vendues explosent
Educpros.fr revient sur la première année universitaire du dispositif Pépite. Pour rappel, entré en vigueur en septembre 2014, le plan national étudiant pour l’innovation, le transfert et l’entreprenariat se propose d’accompagner les bacheliers, étudiants ou jeunes diplômés intéressés par la création de start-up. L’objectif de 20 000 étudiants en 4 ans est encore loin puisque cette année, seules 925 candidatures ont été déposées pour 643 retenues.
En savoir + :: Démarrage timide pour le statut d'étudiant-entrepreneur
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