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17 juillet 2016

The science of preventing sexual assaults

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The recent Stanford sexual assault case is just one of tens of thousands of such assaults that happen every year on American college campuses, which raises the question: What can men and women do to stop rape at universities. More...

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17 juillet 2016

Funds for Dream Act scholarships going unused

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Undocumented college students are leaving a wealth of unspent aid money on the table five years after the passage of the landmark California law that provides those immigrants grants for higher education. More...

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17 juillet 2016

Lessons learned as a community college president

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. I retired in June as President of Ivy Tech in Indiana, the nation’s largest singly accredited community college system. Although I had an advanced degree from the Kelly School of Business when I joined Ivy Tech nine years ago as the new President, my “classroom” as an educator centered in the corporate world as a team leader, having spent my career as the CEO of a large international manufacturing company. More...

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17 juillet 2016

Harvard is latest college to file infringement lawsuits

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. A lawsuit filed by Harvard University against microchip giant Micron Technology is the latest patent suit brought by a big university that could result in a major cash windfall, though educational institutions  filing infringement suits over federally funded research has drawn criticism. More...

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17 juillet 2016

State inches forward in review of outsourcing plan for college campuses

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The state is inching forward in its long-running review of a proposal to outsource facilities management on college campuses and other government-owned properties. More...

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17 juillet 2016

Pearson LearningStudio customers switch to D2L's Brightspace LMS

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. D2L, a global learning technology leader, is proud to announce that over the past two years, a growing number of learning institutions are switching to its Brightspace platform from Pearson LearningStudio. More...

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17 juillet 2016

Study to focus on higher ed to reduce crime

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Four Pennsylvania colleges have been awarded federal grant money to explore whether access to higher education can reduce an inmate's likelihood of future crime. More...

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17 juillet 2016

Biden, Obama rewrite the rulebook on college sexual assaults

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Last month, Vice President Biden penned a searing letter to the victim in a notorious Stanford University rape case. “I am filled with furious anger,” he wrote, “both that this happened to you and that our culture is still so broken.” More...

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17 juillet 2016

UNI to see drop in largest group of international students

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. With a cutback in the number of international applicants from Saudi Arabia, the University of Northern Iowa could see a drop this fall of more than $1 million in tuition. More...

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17 juillet 2016

UNCP chancellor embraces state-funded plan to make steep tuition cuts

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke has embraced a state legislative plan that would significantly lower the school's tuition and reimburse the school for the lost funding. More...

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