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1 avril 2016

Where it’s almost impossible to default on college debt

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Sills’s tuition, like that of almost all Australian students, is covered by a loan-like subsidy he doesn’t have to pay back until his future earnings reach a comfortable level, when it will be withheld as a fraction of his wages. More...

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1 avril 2016

Gale grows digital archive program to better address research needs

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Gale, a leading provider of library resources and part of Cengage Learning, announced the expansion and rebranding of its digital archive program. More...

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1 avril 2016

Heavy recruitment of Chinese students sows discord on U.S. campuses

Submitted by rbendici. Chutian Shao moved from China to the Midwest college town of Champaign, Ill., a few years ago. Some days, he says, it feels as if he hasn’t traveled very far at all. More...

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1 avril 2016

Data on the nation’s community colleges is not encouraging

Submitted by rbendici. Reaction was sharply divided over my column two months ago on Northern Virginia Community College student Sonja Anderson’s struggle to find good advisers and professors. More...

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1 avril 2016

New Mexico college recruiting undocumented students

Submitted by rbendici. She was an immigrant living in the U.S. illegally and counselors didn't know what to tell her about college prospects, though she had a 3.8 grade point average. More...

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1 avril 2016

Educators share dynamics of online learning during Qualilty Matters conference at Berkeley College

Submitted by rbendici. This week, educators and administrators from across the country shared best practices for engaging students in an online learning environment during the Quality Matters (QM) Regional Conference, hosted by Berkeley College in Midtown Manhattan. More...

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1 avril 2016

New student loan report reveals promising repayment trends

Submitted by rbendici. The U.S. Department of Education has released its Quarterly Student Aid Report, a collection of key performance data on the federal student loan portfolio, revealing continued increases in income-driven repayment enrollment with notable decreases in defaults and delinquencies. More...

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1 avril 2016

Donald Trump isn’t alone in exploiting the word ‘university’

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Eleven years ago, Donald Trump linked his name to one of the older get-rich-quick ventures in the book: the real estate seminar. Enticed by the promise of their own quick riches in a then-hot real estate market, students gathered in hotel conference rooms for free introductory classes where instructors offered special knowledge and financing — but only if students signed up for additional, increasingly expensive classes. More...

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1 avril 2016

Breakthrough technology to improve cyber security

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. With enough computing effort most contemporary security systems will be broken. But a research team at the University of Sydney has made a major breakthrough in generating single photons (light particles), as carriers of quantum information in security systems. More...

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1 avril 2016

The end of research in Wisconsin

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. This past June, American academia went into an uproar over Gov. Scott Walker’s new budget in Wisconsin, which not only cut $250M from higher education, but also severely weakened shared faculty governance and effectively destroyed professor tenure at state universities. More...

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