20 décembre 2015
Racial harassment on college campuses increasing
By Tim Goral. Racial harassment on college campuses has climbed of late, although few cases produce any findings. More...
20 décembre 2015
Mark Zuckerberg Is betting tech can address educational equity. Is it that simple?
By Tim Goral. As I'm sure you've heard by now, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, used the occasion of their daughter's birth to announce they'll be investing nearly all their fortune, some $45 billion, in good causes. More...
20 décembre 2015
UW survey finds half of community college students risk hunger, homelessness
By Tim Goral. More than half of community college students surveyed at 10 schools in seven states are at risk of hunger or homelessness, according to a new study released Friday by the Wisconsin HOPE Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. More...
20 décembre 2015
Consideration of race in college admissions is again in line of fire at Supreme Court
By Tim Goral. Basketball coaches, leading military officers and many of the country's biggest businesses agree that the Supreme Court should preserve the use of race as a factor in college admissions. But they may be in a fight they cannot win as the justices take up a case that presages tighter limits on affirmative action in higher education. More...
20 décembre 2015
Link state universities' funds to performance
By Tim Goral. UConn officials proposed a 31 percent tuition hike, to be phased in over four years. The news is the latest blow to the young people who attend, or plan to attend, Connecticut's public colleges. More...
20 décembre 2015
Ed Trust report on grad rates of underrepresented minority students
By Stefanie Botelho. According to a new Ed Trust report, Rising Tide: Do College Grad Rate Gains Benefit All Students?, there have been real improvements: More than two-thirds of all four-year public colleges and universities increased graduation rates from 2003 to 2013. More...
20 décembre 2015
Democratizing college
By Stefanie Botelho. On May 14, 1909, Science magazine published a piece by a Stanford mechanical engineer named Guido Hugo Marx with some interesting numbers. In 1870, Germany had one person per two thousand enrolled in one of its institutions of higher education, but by 1907, it was one per mil (.001). Comparatively, the US had one college student per seven hundred inhabitants in 1885, and one in every four hundred in 1905. More...
20 décembre 2015
Eight common enrollment marketing myths busted by new research
By Stefanie Botelho. Enrollment marketing continues to be a hot topic in higher ed as many institutions experience increased competition for a shrinking applicant pool and pressure to achieve ever-higher enrollment targets. More...
20 décembre 2015
Higher ed officials seek to make math courses relevant to careers
By Stefanie Botelho. Oklahoma higher education officials are taking a new approach to preparing students for success in mathematics and the career of their choice. More...
20 décembre 2015
University libraries adding caffeine
By Stefanie Botelho. Universities in Central Louisiana are updating their campus libraries, starting with an essential part of college life — coffee. More...
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