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U.S. News & World Report: These are the 2018 Best Colleges
The 2018 rankings of best colleges reveals California schools and military academies perform strongly in this year's top public universities rankings. More...
Behind the scenes of unclaimed FAFSAs: Why it’s happening and how ed staff can help
According to NerdWallet.com, as much as $2.7 billion in free federal grant money went unclaimed in 2015 due to incomplete or unsubmitted Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) forms. What’s getting in students’ way when it comes to filling out these forms. More...
The top 5 cyber threats and how to protect your university
With the vast amounts of private data that they gather, store, and analyze, Higher Ed institutions are a prime target for cyber attacks. More...
3 superstar CIOs discuss the most important higher ed considerations
Three high-profile CIOs discuss the challenges and goals of their position, as well as the innovations needed for the institutions of tomorrow. More...
Why every campus should provide today’s students with digital backpacks
Technology is a critical component in education delivery and growing moreso by the day, but the story of higher learning is not solely a technology story. It is a story about intellectual growth and delivering a consistent learning experience across the entire student population – agnostic of curricula, socioeconomic factors or hardware inventory. More...
Higher education facing challenges left by Harvey
As floodwaters rose around the city, Robert Pennington evacuated his third-floor room in the University of Houston’s Bayou Oaks dorm, grabbing food, water, his laptop, contact lenses and school supplies as he left. He recalled stepping away from the building, one of few at UH that saw flooding, into a knee-high current as he hoisted his duffel bag and backpack to a bus. More...
Open textbook initiative goes global
Rice University-based nonprofit OpenStax, which already provides free, high-quality, open textbooks to nearly 1.5 million college students per year, is partnering with Open University’s U.K. Open Textbook initiative to bring OpenStax’s textbooks to the United Kingdom. More...
3 nontraditional pathways taking over higher ed
Unconventional education organizations say recent high school grads flocking to nontraditional pathways; could this be good for college and university admissions. More...
University researchers get boost thanks to network for big data applications
The Energy Sciences Network, Internet2 and NYSERNet extend agreement to connect U.S. research community to major international network hub. More...