2 juillet 2016
2 juillet 2016
73 percent of students dissatisfied with their university’s digital strategy
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Unit4, a fast growing leader in enterprise applications for service organizations, today announced the results of a multi-national research study on students’ perceptions of their campus technology. More...2 juillet 2016
States sue Obama administration over transgender bathroom policy
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The Obama administration on Wednesday faced the first major court challenge to its guidance about the civil rights of transgender students in public schools, as officials from 11 states filed a lawsuit testing both the scope of federal anti-discrimination law and the government’s sweeping interpretation of it. More...2 juillet 2016
New fight for community colleges and 4-year degrees
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. A decade-long fight between Michigan's community colleges and Michigan's four-year colleges found a unlikely battlefield recently — the state House's tax reform committee. More...2 juillet 2016
How freshmen have changed in the past 50 years
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. For a half-century, “The American Freshman” survey has chronicled the experiences and aspirations of college freshmen at campuses across the nation. Starting with a sampling of students from 300 colleges in 1966, the annual survey by UCLA education professor Alexander Astin has now questioned 15 million students, as well as 400,000 faculty and staff, at 1,800 colleges and universities. More...2 juillet 2016
Chinese university installs study booths in showers to ease overcrowding
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. A Chinese university has come up with a novel approach to overcrowded libraries, by converting an unused public showers into dozens of tiny self-study booths. More...2 juillet 2016
How to fix a graduation rate of 1 in 10? Ask the dropouts
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. On San Jose State University's lush inner-city campus, students in their graduation gowns pose with their families in front of ivy-covered buildings. More...2 juillet 2016
Medical firms, universities drive increase in Indiana patents
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The latest Hoosier inventions are emerging from the bustling orthopedic industry in Warsaw, from faculty laboratories at Indiana’s flagship universities, and from health care firms across central Indiana, including Cook Medical Technologies. More...2 juillet 2016
Student apartments won’t raise railings
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The owner of Sterling Campus Center said it has decided not to make any changes to the height of railings at the private student apartment tower where two College of Charleston students fell from balconies in the past year. More...2 juillet 2016
Hidden side of the college dream: Mediocre graduation rates
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. To rise in society, “go to college” is such a proven prescription that Michelle Obama made a rap video of it. But while, on average, college graduates have lower unemployment rates, earn higher wages and even have longer-lasting marriages, there’s less discussion of the many students lost between enrollment and graduation. More...
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