When deciding where to go to college, students ask several important questions: How much will it cost? What academic programs are available? Will it prepare me for my future? What colleges and universities are nearby? While most research and policy conversations understandably focus on helping students answer the first few, this last question about geography and place is too often overlooked.

In Education Deserts, Nicholas Hillman and Taylor Weichman of the University of Wisconsin-Madison explain that place still matters. They argue that place matters even more for today’s college students, many of whom work full-time, care for dependents, and have close social ties to their communities. More...

An agreement between GUNi and the University of Guadalajara (UDEG), Mexico, was signed on July 18 to stablish the regional office of GUNi-LAC at this University with the aim of reinforcing the network in this region. See more...

The next Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration (CONAHEC) conference will be hosted by Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí. The theme of this meeting is the importance of international higher education collaboration to addressing global grand challenges. See more...

By Anya Kamenetz. Before he arrived in Omaha as a doctoral student in computer science, Jason Jie Xiong says, "I didn't even know there was a state called Nebraska."
Jie Xiong, 29, who hails from a small city outside Shanghai, had landed a full scholarship at the University of Nebraska to teach and do research. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How an Alaska Teacher Improved Student Attendance with Minecraft
Cindy Duncan, EdSurge, 2016/02/12

Throughout most of my educational career, the early morning subject was mathematics. Then, later, formal logic. It is as though someone figured our abstract brains work best in the morning. More...