Self-Proclaimed Alternative to College Closes After a Year
Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed, 2018/05/23
This is the story of MissionU, an alternative college that closed after one year and one 25-person cohort in data analytics and business intelligence. It focused on one year of practical experience rather than a four year program, and it didn't charge tuition; students would pay 15% of their income once they made more than $50 per year. More...
Lynda.com to benefit every student, instructor and staff
eCampusOntario, Government of Ontario, 2018/05/21
This is a master stroke on the part of both Microsoft (which owns LinkedIn and Lynda) and eCampus Ontario. The news is that eCampus Ontario will "provide all students, instructors and staff at member institutions with access to the full suite of Lynda.com content at no cost for three years to September 21, 2020." This is a huge data-collection opportunity for Microsoft, not to mention the benefit from a million subscriptions, which if purchased individually would cost more than $250 million a year. More...
Colombia's ex-fighters taught skills for peace
Lucy Sherriff, BBC News, 2018/05/17
Readers will know I was in Colombia a couple of weeks ago so this story is fresh on my mind. This article underscores the umportance of, and the diffioculty of, the work to be done. More...
By Eric Hoover, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Growing up, Rupesh Koirala imagines a place he has never seen. Far beyond the mountains, across a wide ocean, lies the country where many great colleges are said to stand. How he will ever afford to get a degree in the United States, he does not know. Still, he believes. More...
By . You may have heard that there is an election on in Ontario. I tried my best to leave the province for the duration but I’m back now, and holy Moses I wish I weren’t. It is truly godawful. A dumpster fire, as the kids say. But duty calls, and so, forthwith, the traditional HESA platform analysis. More...
Two suspicious young men joined a Colorado university’s campus tour to which they did not belong, a woman told a 911 dispatcher. They refused to say their names, she said, and one of them started to laugh when she asked what they wanted to study. More...
The University announced in March it was entering into a negotiated timber sale on 13,000 acres of its land in the Haines Borough. More...
The governor's budget called for a $68 million cut but lawmakers decided to keep the funding level for most public colleges and universities. More...
Between 2004 and 2016, nearly 1.5 million foreign graduates of U.S. colleges and universities obtained authorization to remain and work in the U.S. through the federal government’s Optional Practical Training program (OPT). More...
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