“Personalized learning” is one of the hottest trends in education these days. The idea is to create software that tracks the progress of each student and then adapts the content, pace of instruction, and assessment to the individual’s performance. These systems succeed by providing immediate feedback that addresses the student’s misunderstandings and offers additional instruction and materials. More...
Legislators in Springfield passed a state budget after a nearly three-year impasse, providing NIU with full state funding for the first time since Fiscal Year 2015 at 10 percent less than the last complete appropriation. More...
For college students in need of mental-health services, help may be just down the hall from their dorm rooms. More...
As New Mexico’s public colleges and universities strain under a budget crunch wrought by fewer state dollars and lower enrollment, legislative analysts want to learn how – or if – the state’s higher education network can operate smarter, especially when neither revenue source is expected to rapidly rebound. More...
While a majority of the public (55%) continues to say that colleges and universities have a positive effect on the way things are going in the country these days, Republicans express increasingly negative views. More...
Fischer International Identity announced today that Seton Hall University has selected the full suite of Fischer's identity and access governance solutions. The Fischer suite will be deployed in Seton Hall's private cloud and managed by the university’s Department of Information Technology. More...
Given Donald Trump’s frequent campaign promises to wipe out “job killing” regulations on Day One, no one should be surprised that the Trump administration is going after federal safeguards that protect consumers at the expense of corporate profits. And it’s no secret that new Education Secretary Betsy DeVos shares the president’s wish for fewer rules, and more freedom and money for the private sector. More...
During her first week of freshman year, Ethiopian national Edenya Asgedom says she became aware of the Sanger Learning Center at the University of Texas—Austin. Sanger offers students resources such as tutoring, weekly meetings with a peer academic coach, and classes and workshops on everything from time management to public speaking. More...
Enrollment Rx, the leading provider of cloud-based Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) solutions for higher education, today announced the addition of FormBuilder Rx on the Salesforce AppExchange. FormBuilder Rx creates complex and dynamic web pages, with drag-and-drop functionality that enables administrators to easily set up forms and personalized homepages. More...
Parents and students are more anxious than ever about college savings. Institutions feed anxiety when they are not forthcoming with their refund policy. By disclosing policy and offering tuition insurance within the tuition payment path, schools can better compete in a crowded marketplace while helping their families. More...
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