By Andy Thomason. Citing a “new normal” of diminished state funding, the University of California at Berkeley is launching a “strategic-planning process” aimed at shoring up its finances. More...
10 février 2016
10 février 2016
Here’s a Snapshot of Online Learning in 2015
By Andy Thomason. The Babson Survey Research Group released its last annual survey of the online-education landscape on Tuesday. You can read its report on the survey here. More...
10 février 2016
State-Colleges Association Will ‘Reimagine’ First Year of College
By Andy Thomason. The American Association of State Colleges and Universities will team up with 44 institutions to “reimagine the first year of college” with an eye to the success of students who come from low-income or minority backgrounds or who are the first in their family to attend college. More...
10 février 2016
British Prime Minister Criticizes Oxford for Low Enrollment of Disadvantaged Students
By Andy Thomason. The University of Oxford is pushing back against Prime Minister David Cameron’s assertion that the British university isn’t enrolling a diverse-enough student body. More...
10 février 2016
College Endowments Report Lowest Return Rate in 3 Years
By Andy Thomason. Colleges’ endowments returned an average of 2.4 percent in the 2015 fiscal year, the lowest annual rate reported by the annual Nacubo-Commonfund Study of Endowments since 2012, when endowments reported a -0.3-percent return. More...
10 février 2016
Is Community College Already Free? It’s More Complicated Than That, Researchers Say
By Andy Thomason. One critique of the free-college movement, or even debt-free college, is that students have plenty of low-cost options within higher education. For instance, community colleges. More...
10 février 2016
Oberlin’s President Rejects Black Students’ ‘Deeply Troubling’ Demands
By Andy Thomason. The president of Oberlin College has rejected a group of black students’ demands aimed at dealing with racism on the Ohio campus, calling some of the demands “deeply troubling,” according to a message posted Wednesday on the college’s website. More...
10 février 2016
Professors’ Union Bid at Private College Fails Under New Federal Standards
By Peter Schmidt. The National Labor Relations Board’s first application of new standards for determining whether private-college professors may unionize suggests that many such organizing efforts still face major hurdles. More...
10 février 2016
Education Dept. Will Publish List of Colleges With Title IX Exemptions
By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Department of Education will publish a list of religious colleges that have received exemptions from some provisions of the gender-equity law Title IX, the assistant secretary for civil rights, Catherine E. Lhamon, said in a letter on Wednesday. More...
10 février 2016
Hospitality for Virtual Presenters
By Amy Cavender. I am finding more and more conferences willing to accommodate me as a virtual presenter. This is probably happening more to me than other people because of my travel restrictions (mom of a young child living halfway across the world from most conferences I want to attend and where most of my collaborators reside), coupled with my refusal to ignore the potential social capital I can gain from presenting internationally, that is different from everyday online interactions. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)