RedShelf, a leading provider of digital learning materials, and McGraw-Hill Education, a top learning science company, today announced a new agreement that will help expand their work together on inclusive access programs that increase the affordability of course materials and enhance student engagement. More...
Ensuring accessibility is everyone’s responsibility
Most disability support services (DSS) staff can relate to the fact that students with disabilities are often viewed as “their” students. We do not refer to any other student group as belonging to “that” office. More...
Director of affirmative action
Reporting to the assistant vice president for equity & accessibility/title ix coordinator, the director of affirmative action provides leadership to advance the university’s affirmative action programs. More...
Be a source for our SIS, LMS data integration story
As the use of e-textbooks and other digital learning materials grows, it’s more important than ever to address SIS and LMS integration issues, especially during the purchase and implementation process. More...
A closer look at Ala.'s $6.63B education budget, largest in a decade
Alabama's lawmakers allocated $216 million more for spending on education for next year, bringing the total to $6.63 billion, making it the largest education budget since 2008, the year considered as the high-water mark for education funding in Alabama. More...
Why are N.Y.’s public funds going to for-profit college tuition?
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has won nationwide accolades for his bold plan to give the state’s college students “no cost” degrees from its state university system. But in the background to the dramatic push to expand public higher-education funding, known as the Excelsior program—offering tuition-free state college to households with incomes of up to $110,000—much of the same student aid pool has been siphoned off by for-profit colleges and vocational schools. More...
36 percent of college students don’t have enough to eat
Caleb Torres lost seven pounds his freshman year of college — and not because he didn’t like the food in the dining hall. A first-generation college student, barely covering tuition, Torres ran out of grocery money halfway through the year and began skipping meals as a result. More...
Jitterbit empowers higher learning institutions
Jitterbit, the API transformation company, today announced that its integration platform has been certified to empower higher learning institutions to connect all of their data and applications to the Salesforce platform using its purpose-built Higher Education Data Architecture (HEDA). More...
Burlington County Institute of Technology to accept upperclassman transfers in the fall
Not every 14-year-old knows what career path he wants to take, and Burlington County Institute of Technology Superintendent Christopher Nagy said some students end up realizing later in their education that they want to attend the technical school to help achieve their professional goals. More...
Marquette University adopts Terra Dotta AlertTraveler mobile app
As the higher education community continues to expand duty of care initiatives for study abroad programs, Terra Dotta, the leader in higher education travel, study abroad and international program management solutions, today announced that Marquette University is using its AlertTraveler mobile app in addition to its Study Abroad solution. More...