By . President Obama left some in higher education feeling slighted on Thursday, when he said during a speech in Wisconsin that young people could make more money in skilled manufacturing than with art-history degrees. Mr. Obama’s speech was intended to highlight his administration’s approach to work-force training, which was a key theme of his State of the Union address on Tuesday. More...
By Lawrence Biemiller. Friday’s announcement that President Obama has created a foundation to pick a site for his presidential library set off a new round of speculation over where the facility might end up, with universities in Chicago, New York, Hawaii, and California expressing interest. The University of Chicago’s president, Robert J. Zimmer, immediately released a statement saying that his institution “is committed to working in partnership with the City of Chicago, our neighbors, civic leaders, and cultural and educational institutions” to locate the library on the city’s South Side. Accompanying the statement is an FAQ laying out a “Rationale for Chicago” and describing what the university’s role would be. More...
By Libby Sander. As an admissions counselor at Valparaiso University, Daniel Jarratt noticed that few high-school students really knew what they were looking for in a college. For all the talk about the importance of college choice, most students Mr. Jarratt spoke to knew of a few colleges they wanted to attend but couldn’t articulate exactly why they wanted to do so. So on his nights and weekends, Mr. Jarratt, now a first-year Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, started working on a tool that would direct students to the right colleges even if they didn’t know what they were looking for. More...
By Ryan Bentley. Petoskey High School and North Central Michigan College are teaming up to offer 25 of this year’s Petoskey sophomores a program that will lead to a high-school diploma as well as a no-cost college degree.
“It’s a great opportunity and it helps financially,” said Shelly Ilenich, one of the students getting started in the program. More...
By Lucie Lapovsky. Demographics are changing rapidly in the United States. From the late 1980’s until a few years ago, the number of high school graduates has been steadily increasing until it peaked in 2008 at about 3.3 million students. This number has been declining and will continue to decline for the next few years. For every 100 18-year-olds there are today, there are only 95 four-year-olds and in some parts of the country the spread is much greater. More...
By Carlos Campo. Higher education leaders are generally responding positively to President Obama's recent "College Opportunity Summit," as the president and first lady reinforced their ongoing commitment to improving potential college students' access and success. At the event -- which featured more than 100 college presidents who signed pledges that their institutions will help with the effort--Michelle Obama recounted her own powerful story of perseverance and success as she noted how deeply the nation's leading couple's life stories are "rooted in education."
While the summit was another example of the president's clear commitment to improving higher education in America, a few surprises emerged from the gathering. More...
By Luis Ruuska. Income-diversity programs are a step in the right direction, but colleges can do more to reach out to low-income students. The country’s higher education industry has seen numerous efforts to remedy income inequality in higher education, though many of them have failed. It’s a daunting task, to say the least.
Nevertheless, President Barack Obama has tackled the issue head-on throughout his presidency. Obama increased Pell Grant funding and introduced the new “Pay-As-You-Earn” loan repayment option, in an effort to keep student loans affordable.
Evidently realizing that this is not a fight he can win alone, the president hosted leaders and representatives from 140 colleges, universities and other organizations at an education summit at the White House earlier this month. During the summit, Obama asked education leaders to make progress on combating income inequality in higher education. More...
By Allie Bidwell. The president again vowed to expand access to preschool, and 'shake up' higher education.
President Barack Obama again called for increased access to early childhood education and more affordable college costs in his 2014 State of the Union address. Although President Barack Obama did not lay out any new plans for education reform in his State of the Union address Tuesday, education leaders from the early childhood education arena, through the higher education community, said they were pleased with the sign of his renewed commitment to education issues. More...
By David Kent. This is Part 2 of a two-part series on immigration issues relevant to international trainees in science. I hope readers will find this a useful springboard for further discussion and share their thoughts and experiences with us in the comments section. This series of blog posts should not be considered legal advice. Rather, the intention is to create a framework to facilitate the sharing of ideas and experiences. We will attempt to link to official sources wherever appropriate, encourage our commenters to do the same, and we will remind readers to consult the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website as the only authoritative and up-to-date source of information.
The Canadian Experience Class (CEC) stream is a popular choice for skilled workers hoping to immigrate to Canada. Because applying to the program doesn’t require a permanent job offer (increasingly rare in today’s economic climate), the CEC is especially attractive to recent university graduates working in temporary positions or on contracts. A full list of requirements to apply to the program is available on the CIC website; some of these are discussed in detail below. More...
By Marie Lambert-Chan. CRÉPUQ will no longer be the voice for Quebec universities with the public, the media and government. The Conférence des recteurs et des principaux des universités du Québec (CRÉPUQ) is officially changing its name to the Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire (BCI) — the office of interuniversity cooperation. The organization will continue to offer services to universities, such as joint purchasing for libraries. It will also continue to act as a forum for coordination and cooperation on issues of mutual concern. However, it is giving up its role as the official voice of university administrations in Quebec in their dealings with the public, the media and government. More...
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