Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. While many towns, counties and school boards across North Carolina provide their elected officials public email accounts, many trustees at the state’s universities and community colleges either don’t have them or don’t use them. More...
Gutenberg Technology and VitalSource collaborate
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Publishers now have a simple tool to create and distribute interactive content, thanks to a new collaboration between Gutenberg Technology Inc., an industry-leading, cloud-based tools creator for educational content, and VitalSource Technologies LLC, an Ingram Content Group company and leading educational technology provider. More...
Training students to outpace automation
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Three young men in the back of a classroom at Henry Ford College stare intently at a machine that helps move panels along a conveyor belt. To the untrained eye, there doesn’t appear to be much going on, at least initially. More...
Little college pursuing big plans, despite pushback
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Over the last 16 years, the vast majority of community colleges in Florida have expanded to become state colleges. That's so they can offer four-year degrees, not just the two-year associate degrees. More...
American Student Assistance launches “My Salt”
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. American Student Assistance, a private nonprofit dedicated to demystifying the college financing process, is pleased to announce the launch of “My Salt,” a personalized extension of its Salt platform now accessed by more than a million registered users. More...
Will higher ed in Colorado make the grade?
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Colorado is one of the most educated states in the nation, ranking high in the percentage of adults who attended college and hold bachelor's degrees. But state funding for higher education isn't what it used to be -- according to the American Council on Education, state support shrank nearly 70 percent between 1980 and 2011. More...
Student coaching service InsideTrack launches service
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. InsideTrack, the nation’s leading provider of student success coaching services, announced today the launch of a new service called Strong Start Coaching, which supports admitted students in making informed college selection and enrollment decisions, and developing the habits they will need to persist and graduate. More...
Higher ed, economic development and the future of Southwest Ga.
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Many years ago, there was an advertising campaign that declared, “It’s not your father’s Oldsmobile.” Targeting younger buyers, Oldsmobile, a company that had rested on its laurels for decades, realized that the market was changing. More...
Business schools are using MOOCs to boost application
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have often been cast as business education’s bad guy; free, alternative online courses disrupting the market and threatening the traditional business school model. More...
A fumble on a key FAFSA tool, and a failure to communicate
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Applying for financial aid for college got a lot harder this month, in the thick of application season, but it took federal agencies nearly a week to explain what was happening. More...