There are some things Harvey Mudd College would like to be known for: being a small, close-knit, gender-balanced, racially and ethnically diverse engineering college; faculty who focus on teaching; graduates who head to companies like Google, Amazon and Microsoft and earn six figures by mid-career. More...
Elsevier acquires bepress
Elsevier, the global information analytics business specializing in science and health, today acquired bepress, a Berkeley, California-based business that helps academic libraries showcase and share their institutions’ research for maximum impact. Founded by three University of California, Berkeley professors in 1999, bepress allows institutions to collect, organize, preserve and disseminate their intellectual output, including pre-prints, working papers, journals or specific articles, dissertations, theses, conference proceedings and a wide variety of other data. More...
Betsy DeVos sees Grand Rapids Community College's impact
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Tuesday, Aug. 1, how "exciting and encouraging'' it was to see how Grand Rapids Community College's programs are continuing to develop to support students. More...
The Mellon Foundation supports major initiative at Olin College of Engineering
Integrating the arts and humanities within a STEM education is the goal of a $900,000 grant to Olin College of Engineering from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. More...
To err is human – and a powerful prelude to learning
Once a month, this column will examine the insights that science offers about the way people learn, and how such findings could influence schools. More...
Spend a fifth year in college? Fewer Wash. students stick around that long
The University of Washington is the state’s flagship institution and a powerhouse of scientific research, but a decade ago, it was no standout when it came to how many students graduated in four years. More...
The intersection of machine learning and higher education
Machine Learning takes Artificial Intelligence to the next level, enabling institutions to gain greater insight and predictive capabilities for transforming student engagement and outcomes. More...
This venture cap fund taps university students to find the best on-campus investments
The idea behind the early-stage fund, launched last month, is to cover the gap between university entrepreneurial programs and the seed fund money that helps a fledgling company take a prototype to market. More...
The new way companies recruit on campus
On move-in day at Michigan State University’s College of Engineering, freshmen and their parents discover something surprising. Mingling among the families and faculty are teams of volunteers from major companies like General Electric and Consumers Energy, helping students move in. More...
Apple boss Tim Cook opens The Oxford Foundry
A new Oxford University facility aimed at developing the entrepreneurial skills of students has been launched by Apple CEO Tim Cook. More...