Confronting academia’s ties to slavery
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. In 1976, archivists at Harvard’s natural history museum opened a drawer and discovered a haunting portrait of a shirtless enslaved man named Renty, gazing sorrowfully but steadily at the camera. Taken on a South Carolina plantation in 1850, it had been used by the Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz to formulate his now-discredited ideas about racial difference. More...
FLEXspace joins UBTech as program partner
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. FLEXspace, a flexible learning environments exchange, will present five sessions on active classroom and learning spaces. More...
Starting here, finishing there
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Sixteen percent of students who started at two-year colleges received a degree from a four-year institution within six years — regardless whether they first earned an associate degree, according to a new report. More...
Tenn. high schools, higher ed institutions can share electronic transcripts
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. All Tennessee high schools are now eligible to send electronic transcript data of current or recent students among all 649 high schools, Tennessee’s higher education institutions, Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation (TSAC) for Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship eligibility, by joining the new Tennessee Electronic Transcript Exchange. More...
Who’s ready for college?
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. While state budget cuts might make the future murky for the University of Iowa, a bright future exists for local high-school graduates when it comes to higher education. More...
Edtech might predict failure before students can succeed
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. High-tech program designed to predict which students are at risk of failure might sound like a way to extend a helping hand. More...
Guidebook unveils Users & Groups for higher ed institutions
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Guidebook today announced the availability of Users & Groups, the latest addition to the company’s mobile app platform. Guidebook Users & Groups provides higher ed student affairs professionals with a range of new capabilities that are designed to streamline user onboarding, increase app adoption and increase engagement amongst specific student populations. More...
Connecticut college credit transfer proposal to be aired
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. A proposal to streamline the process for transferring credits from community colleges to state universities will be aired Thursday by the legislature’s Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee. More...
The violent fight for higher ed
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. From one side of the highest levels of the University of Witwatersrand administration building stretch the lush green neighborhoods of this city’s wealthy, mostly white, professional class. More...