By Ashley A. Smith. A proposed policy statement has reignited the question of whether the associate or bachelor's degree should be the entry-level requirement in the nursing profession.
Although AACN has not issued an official statement, it is circulating a draft position called “The Baccalaureate Degree as Entry-Level Preparation for Professional Nursing Practice” in an effort to solicit public opinion on the topic. More...
By Ashley A. Smith. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo vetoed legislation Tuesday that would have extended the state's tuition-free scholarships to for-profit institutions. More...
By Ashley A. Smith. A new report from the Better Government Association, a nonpartisan Illinois-based watchdog group, claims that City Colleges of Chicago's Kennedy-King College combined graduation rates with the Chicago-based French Pastry School in order to receive national recognition of improving completion. More...
By Ashley A. Smith. Protests and altercation at St. Louis Community College board meeting highlight division over layoffs and a budget deficit in a large district that is losing students. More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. Author discusses new book on social science research in era of big data.
Technological innovations in the 21st century have enabled researchers to collect and process data about human behavior at an unprecedented scale, but are social scientists keeping up. More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. Humanoid robot completes course in philosophy of love in what is purportedly a world first.
A robot called Bina48 has successfully taken a course in the philosophy of love at Notre Dame de Namur University, in California. More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. The number of faculty members choosing open educational resources over traditional textbooks has nearly doubled in the last year, but awareness over all remains low. More...
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Student blasts Georgia Tech for monitoring his social media accounts, including details about his travel plans and activist work on campus. More...
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Institutions won’t allow students to use marijuana on campuses for fear of running afoul of federal law and losing their funding. More...
By Doug Lederman. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo plans to introduce legislation that would require all campuses in the State University and City University of New York systems to create their own food pantries or ensure another "stigma-free" way to give hungry students access to food, his office announced Dec. 28. More...
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