Immigrants to the United States are making up a larger share than in the past of the science and engineering workforce, according to a new report from the National Science Foundation. Read more...
24 octobre 2015
24 octobre 2015
Report Questions Nonprofit Conversions
A new report from the Century Foundation questions the legitimacy of four former for-profit colleges' recent transformations to nonprofit status. Those institutions are "covert for-profits," according to the report, "where owners have managed to affix a nonprofit label to their colleges while engineering substantial ongoing personal financial benefits for themselves." Read more...
24 octobre 2015
Shifts in Major Aid Program for Black Students
The National Merit Scholarship Program has announced that it is phasing out its National Achievement Scholarship Program, which has provided aid to black students since 1964. Read more...
24 octobre 2015
Laureate Education to Become Publicly Traded
Laureate Education on Friday announced plans to once again become a publicly traded company. Laureate is the largest U.S.-based for-profit college chain, with over one million students at 88 institutions in 28 countries. The privately held company was publicly traded before 2007, when a group of investors led by its CEO, Douglas L. Becker, bought Laureate in a deal valued at $3.8 billion. Read more...
24 octobre 2015
Colleges Told Not to Ask Applicants to Rank Choices
The Assembly of the National Association for College Admission Counseling voted Saturday to amend its ethics code to state that colleges should "not ask candidates, their schools, their counselors or others to list or rank their college or university preferences on applications or other documents." The move comes amid criticism of the practice, which some colleges have used to make admissions or financial aid choices, rewarding those who seem most likely to enroll. Read more...
24 octobre 2015
Delegating Tips
By Kerry Ann Rockquemore. Thanks for your advice on the importance of delegating. My problem is that I know I should delegate lots of things, but I don’t have anybody to delegate them to! I have no TAs, no RAs, and my small department doesn’t even have a full-time staff person. I feel like I’m on my own here and overwhelmed with minutiae. Read more...
24 octobre 2015
Interview Like Rembrandt, Not Picasso
By Thomas Magaldi. The painting that I remember most from my first visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art was a life-size image of Joan of Arc painted by Jules Bastien-Lepage. Even an artistically challenged teenager could recognize that the artist was depicting an angelic apparition to Joan of Arc in her garden. Read more...
24 octobre 2015
Dealing With Difficult People
By Larry D. Lauer. I once witnessed a president’s spouse whose involvement in internal operations disrupted and confused the staff. She had been a public relations executive in a prior life, and an unwitting trustee made a comment when her husband was hired that made her think she had an open door to get involved in university communications. Read more...
24 octobre 2015
Navigating the Job Market in the First Trimester
By Mieke Beth Thomeer. Three hours after I found out I was pregnant in the fall of 2013, I received a phone call inviting me to give my first job talk. Read more...
24 octobre 2015
How to Land a Nonprofessor Position After Grad School
By Jake Livengood. Life after the Ph.D. can be scary.
As a Ph.D. student, it is easy to doubt your next career step in making the transition to life after grad school. Read more...
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