Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Purdue on Monday announced a partnership with FutureLearn, Europe’s largest massive open online courses (MOOCs) provider. Purdue is among the first five U.S. institutions to collaborate with FutureLearn, which was founded in 2012 by the Open University in the U.K. More...
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Channel 9 investigated a growing trend among local college students. Eyewitness News learned that hundreds of college students in Charlotte are connecting with older men online and agreeing to date them in exchange for money they can use toward tuition. More...
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The cost of tax deductions that previous research has shown disproportionately help wealthier families pay for college continues to outpace what the federal government spends on grants for low-income students, a new study points out. More...
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. SHOWTIME and Apogee today announced the availability of SHOWTIME ANYTIME for colleges and universities, providing on-demand access to hundreds of hours of SHOWTIME programming, including the upcoming limited event series TWIN PEAKS. More...
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. More than 1,000 of college students rallied in front of Alabama Statehouse on Thursday to lobby lawmakers for increased higher education funding. More...
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Online education has been hailed by some politicians and higher education experts as an innovation with the potential to deliver courses and degrees to students who might not otherwise attend college at a fraction of the typical cost. More...
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The president of Arkansas Tech University said Wednesday she is watching a bill before the Arkansas Legislature in Little Rock that would expand the use of concealed weapons on the state's college campuses and universities. More...
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The White House budget office has drafted a hit list of programs that President Trump could eliminate to trim domestic spending, including longstanding conservative targets like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Legal Services Corporation, AmeriCorps and the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities. More...
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. White House officials revealed a new executive order would be signed this week to offer new support to the nation’s 106 historically black colleges and universities, which have long suffered from declining enrollment, drastic budget cuts at state and federal levels and questions of sustainability from philanthropists and families. More...
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University, edX is a non-profit institute which is intended to offer high quality and top-notch education. More...
/https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
