By Jake New. After killing of Wayne State officer and attack at Ohio State, campus police reflect on dangers of the job. Read more...
4 décembre 2016
4 décembre 2016
Uncertainty on Cuba
By Elizabeth Redden. Trump’s comments on possibly undoing U.S.-Cuba “deal” in wake of Fidel Castro’s death cast uncertainty about future of educational exchanges with island nation, which have been on the rise. Read more...
4 décembre 2016
Soyinka Throws Out Green Card to Protest Trump
By Elizabeth Redden. A Nigerian-born Nobel-prize winning author who has taught at Cornell, Harvard and Yale Universities has thrown away his green card in protest of Donald J. Trump’s election win, The Independent reported. Wole Soyinka was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1986. Read more...
4 décembre 2016
White Power Leader's New Target: Colleges
By Scott Jaschik. Video of Richard B. Spencer's recent speech -- in which supporters gave Nazi salute -- draws attention to alt-right leader. His plan to visit Texas A&M has set off a debate. Read more...
4 décembre 2016
Student Fatally Stabs Professor
By Scott Jaschik. Bosco Tjan, a professor of psychology at the University of Southern California, was stabbed to death by a student Friday afternoon. Read more...
29 novembre 2016
The National Research Council in the Innovation Agenda: Making Best Use of the NRC’s Strengths
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The National Research Council in the Innovation Agenda: Making Best Use of the NRC’s Strengths
66 NRC Research Officers, Research Council Officers, Government of Canada, 2016/09/13
This is a contribution (6 page PDF) signed by 66 NRC researchers, including myself, to the government's consultation on global science excellence. It recommends a departure from the previous policy of having selected industry partners determine NRC research priorities. More...
29 novembre 2016
All ITT Campuses Will Close
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. All ITT Campuses Will Close
Inside Higfher Ed, 2016/09/13
The collapse of ITT Technical Institutes' chain of schools in the United States should counsel as warning about the perils of privatizing education. "U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, at the time of the Education Department action, compared ITT to the Corinthian chain, which collapsed amid federal and state scrutiny. 'For too long, ITT Tech and its executives have gotten rich off taxpayers while misleading and taking advantage of their students with Corinthian-style deceptive and abusive practices.'" Business as usual. The closure involves 130 campuses, 40,000 students and 8,000 employees. More...
26 novembre 2016
Muslim Students Apprehensive About Post-Election America
By . The day after Donald Trump was elected as the next U.S. president, a Muslim student wearing a hijab was assaulted in an above-ground parking garage on the campus of San Diego State University, in California. More...
26 novembre 2016
3 degrees in just 5 years?
By Rick Nathanson. An agreement in New Mexico provides an expedited path to multiple degrees in only 5 years.
Imagine getting an associate degree, a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts and a master’s of business administration in five years, and paying as little as $20,000 for the entire trio. More...
26 novembre 2016
What is Obama’s higher education legacy?
By Meris Stansbury. The College Scorecard, Pell Grants and gap widening, funding help that went slightly awry—if you ask higher education thought leaders, they’ll probably argue that the Obama Administration initially set out to take a top-down, almost Big Brother-esque hand in reforming higher education; and when that faced opposition from the right and the left alike, performed a reversal in tactics that may have done some good. More...
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