By Paul Fain. Students and their families are receiving scholarships and grants to cover more of the price of college, according to the latest installment of an annual survey conducted by Sallie Mae, the student lender. Read more...
Underestimating Financial Aid Eligibility
By Paul Fain. Slightly less than one-quarter of parents and 37 percent of students believe they will qualify for financial aid, according to the results of a survey released this week by Royall & Company, a division of the Education Advisory Board (EAB). Read more...
How to Talk About Diversity in the Classroom
By Ellen Wexler. Professors at Juniata College struggled to talk about race in class and worried about saying the wrong thing. So campus leaders helped them engage. Read more...
The Jobs That Come to Campus
By Ellen Wexler. For college students, long commutes can be a barrier to off-campus jobs. At the University of Cincinnati, one company brought the work to the students. Read more...
JSTOR on Presidential Scholarly Publishing
By Carl Straumsheim. President Obama this week joined the exclusive club of presidents who have also published in scholarly journals. Obama penned an article for the Journal of the American Medical Association on his signature legislative accomplishment, the Affordable Care Act, and how lawmakers should build on it. Read more...
Participants in Adaptive Courseware Project Announced
By Carl Straumsheim. Seven member institutions of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities will participate in a three-year project to test adaptive courseware, the organization announced on Thursday. Read more...
Study: Corporations Looking for Learning Technology
By Carl Straumsheim. Corporations are growing increasingly dissatisfied with their learning management systems, and many are looking to switch in the near future, according to a study by the Brandon Hall Group, a research and advisory services firm. Read more...
Virtual Reality on the Horizon
By Carl Straumsheim. The hype has some colleges wondering if now is the right time to jump in. High costs and development issues suggest the technology is still years away from making a difference. Read more...
New Open-Access Social Science Research Archive
By Carl Straumsheim. A group of sociologists and librarians said on Saturday that they, in partnership with the Center for Open Science, will develop a new open-access archive for social science research. Read more...
A Recipe for Engagement
By Carl Straumsheim. New York University at Shanghai experiments with educational videos to study how it can reach Chinese students online. Read more...