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1 juillet 2016

Tool provides institutions with guide to plan, implement CBE programs

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN) today released an interactive CBE Design Planner tool that allows institutions to plan for designing, developing and scaling high-quality competency-based education (CBE) programs capable of serving students of all backgrounds. More...

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1 juillet 2016

The outlook for state higher education spending

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The University of Virginia Miller Center created the National Commission on Financing 21st Century Higher Education in 2014 to recommend policy and funding changes to help the nation attain the goal of 60 percent of the labor force with a postsecondary degree or certificate by 2025. More...

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1 juillet 2016

Transylvania to offer $60,000 scholarships to International Baccalaureate graduates

Submitted by Tim Goral. Higher education has become a big business, and like any business, schools must develop market niches to attract customers, otherwise known as students. More...

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1 juillet 2016

Equity and inclusion are pillars of excellence in higher education

Submitted by Tim Goral. Before Thursday's Supreme Court decision affirming the University of Texas at Austin's limited use of race in admissions decisions, I had steeled myself for bad news: The fact that the nation's highest court decided to hear the case for a second time, that Justice Elena Kegan had recused herself from the case; and the likely swing vote would be Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has been skeptical of race-conscious admissions, did not bode well. More...

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1 juillet 2016

Colleges, universities navigate new concealed handgun law, policies

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The controversial law that will allow concealed license holders to carry their handguns on college campuses will take effect Aug. 1 for four-year, public institutions in the state of Texas. More...

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1 juillet 2016

The Supreme Court smiles on diversity

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the University of Texas’s race-conscious admissions process leaves affirmative action in higher education as a surviving remnant of the major social policy innovations that accompanied the civil rights movement. More...

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1 juillet 2016

Overtime rule affects colleges

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. With about five months to go before new federal overtime regulations set in, colleges and universities around the Quad-Cities are busily trying to figure out the impact they will have on their budgets — and how they might affect student costs. More...

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1 juillet 2016

Why your diploma isn’t good enough for the 21st century economy

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. A college degree, per the old conventional wisdom, was your ticket to a career of better work and higher pay. More...

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1 juillet 2016

Some colleges appear too big to fail, report argues

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Are some colleges too big to fail? Union officials and consumer advocates are raising that question this week as the government seeks comment on proposed rules to better protect students and taxpayers if a school collapses. More...

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1 juillet 2016

A family-friendly policy that’s friendliest to male professors

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The underrepresentation of women among the senior ranks of scholars has led dozens of universities to adopt family-friendly employment policies. But a recent study of economists in the United States finds that some of these gender-neutral policies have had an unintended consequence: They have advanced the careers of male economists, often at women’s expense. More...

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