By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Experts say pressure to succeed in big-time football is behind reports of thrown weights, repeated verbal abuse and more at Maryland. Did it take a student's death to capture attention. More...
23 août 2018
23 août 2018
'Committed Change' for Men's Basketball
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. The NCAA plans new rules for the sport it says will minimize corruption -- among them, allowing agents the association certifies to represent college players. More...
23 août 2018
Health Experts Warn: 'Beware the B'
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. A new campaign is trying to get major universities to mandate vaccination for a rarer form of meningitis. More...
23 août 2018
The Chance to Question Your Accuser
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. After a recent court ruling, University of Michigan must sponsor a special live hearing for a student accused of sexual assault to challenge his accuser. More...
23 août 2018
Destabilizing the Student Insurance Pool?
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. College health experts are worried new rules from the Trump administration will result in students, particularly graduate students, paying more for health care. More...
23 août 2018
3 Latin American Universities to Share Online Courses
By Doug Lederman. Three universities in Chile, Colombia and Mexico will make all of the open online courses they offer on the Coursera platform available to one another's students at no charge, as part of a new collaboration between them. Under the arrangement, known as La Tríada, Tec de Monterrey in Mexico, Universidad de los Andes in Colombia and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile will make a combined 100 courses available to their collective 150,000 or so on-campus students. More...
23 août 2018
Michigan to Start Online, Part-Time M.B.A. Program
By Doug Lederman. The University of Michigan's Ross School of Business announced Tuesday that it will start a part-time online master of business administration program in fall 2019. More...
23 août 2018
Lumen Learning Hits 100,000 Mark for OER Users in a Term
By Doug Lederman. More than 100,000 students used Lumen Learning's courses built on open educational resources in the spring 2018 semester, the company announced Tuesday. More...
23 août 2018
Dams Drive Risk of Fish Extinction in U.S.
By Doug Lederman. Population changes across the country can lead to extinction of native species. In today's Academic Minute, Florida International University's John Kominoski describes how building dams in the growing Southwestern U.S. can be harmful for fish populations. More...
23 août 2018
Job Changes in Digital Learning
By Doug Lederman. Recent hires and promotions in the fields of online learning and instructional technology, at Anderson, California Community Colleges, Harvard, Northern Illinois, Waubonsee and West Florida. More...
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