By Doug Lederman. VitalSource will make digital course material from McGraw-Hill Education available through its inclusive access platform, the two companies announced. More...
6 mai 2018
6 mai 2018
A Silicon Valley 'Evangelist' Who Doesn't Bash Higher Ed
By Doug Lederman. Normally, when Silicon Valley types with titles like "education evangelist" lecture them, the themes tend to be about how slowly higher education is changing, how unprepared their colleges and universities are for the digital natives preparing to flood into them, and how alternatives like coding boot camps are poised to displace them. More...
6 mai 2018
New Leader for Business Officers' Association
By Doug Lederman. The National Association of College and University Business Officers has selected as its new president Susan Whealler Johnston, senior vice president and chief operating officer of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. More...
6 mai 2018
422 Colleges Have Spaces Available for Fall
By Scott Jaschik. The National Association for College Admission Counseling is today releasing its annual list of colleges that still have spaces available for fall undergraduate enrollment. There are 422 institutions on the list, up slightly from last year and substantially from several years before. More...
6 mai 2018
Sit-In at Centre Over Racial Issues
By Scott Jaschik. More than 100 students are holding a sit-in at Centre College, demanding changes in campus policies in ways that would improve the environment for minority students, The Advocate-Messenger reported. More...
6 mai 2018
Flexibility on Research Transparency
By Scott Jaschik. In 2014, 27 political science journal editors signed on to new Data Access and Research Transparency (DA-RT) guidelines promoting openness in academic research. The guidelines would require authors to make available much more of the raw data and methodologies used to analyze the data than would typically appear in many journal articles. More...
6 mai 2018
Impact of Graduating With Debt as Recession Hit
By Scott Jaschik. Graduating from college in 2007-08, just as the recession hit, was particularly challenging. A new study by RTI International for the National Center for Education Statistics shows how much more difficult it was for those with student debt than for those who didn't have such debt. More...
6 mai 2018
Student Newspaper Accused of Being Pornographic
By Scott Jaschik. The Foghorn News, the student newspaper at Del Mar College, is being accused of running pornography, McClatchy News reported. At issue is a feature that the newspaper's editors say was intended as humor for those stressed by finals. The full article may be found here. One example from the article is below. More...
6 mai 2018
Protest at Swarthmore Over Title IX Issues
By Scott Jaschik. Several hundred students at Swarthmore College, some of them engaged in a sit-in, have this week been protesting the college's handling of sex assault cases and of issues related to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. More...
6 mai 2018
Trump May Set Limits on Chinese Researchers
By Scott Jaschik. The Trump administration is considering new limits on Chinese citizens at American universities and research institutes, The New York Times reported. The possible rules come at a time of tensions between the U.S. and China over trade issues. More...
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