By Beckie Supiano. From his office window, Eric Johnson can see the groundskeeping staff clearing off the sidewalk with leaf blowers. Colleges like the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he works, pull out all the stops to make their campuses inviting. But rarely, he says, do they work as diligently to create a welcoming presence online, even though that’s where today’s prospective students encounter them first. More...

By Antonia Maioni. Any professor in the social sciences and humanities will tell you that women outnumber men in their classrooms. But have you ever asked an executive to count the number of women in an airport during peak business travel times? Female enrollment surpassed that of men in Canadian universities years ago, but is this reflected in corporate, political, public service, and scholarly power structures? The short answer is no. The long answer, though, suggests that women have been quietly redefining and renegotiating professional boundaries and career progression trajectories. More...

By Felix W. Ortiz III. On Thursday, October 23rd, my company Viridis Learning hosted our first annual Education & Technology Summit at Los Angeles Mission College in Southern California. More...

Every dollar spent on post-secondary education creates $1.36 for the Canadian economy, according to a Conference Board of Canada report released today at the 2nd Skills and Post-Secondary Education Summit 2014: Developing the Skills and PSE Strategy for Canada, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
"Not only do Canada's universities and colleges contribute to our economic and social well-being by educating and training people, they also generate significant economic benefits to the communities and provinces where they are situated," said Michael Bloom, Vice-President, Industry and Business Strategy. More...