By Steve Wolverton. It’s 2 a.m. on Friday, and I awaken and slowly consider the topic that I will teach in my class on earth science later today: global warming. Read more...
24 octobre 2015
24 octobre 2015
Trigger or Not, Warnings Matter
By Julie A. Winterich. Recently, a nonacademic friend asked, “If you were teaching William Butler Yeats’s ‘Leda and the Swan,’ would you use a trigger warning?” Read more...
24 octobre 2015
Let's Bid Farewell to the Carnegie Unit
By Arthur Levine. For a century, the Carnegie Unit -- or credit hour -- served American education very well. Created by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1906, it is now the nearly universal accounting unit for colleges and schools. Read more...
24 octobre 2015
Expand Work-Study’s Community Service Requirement
By Marvin Krislov and Robert Hackett. Congress is currently considering cutting funding for the campus-based Federal Work-Study Program that helps the most economically disadvantaged students pay for postsecondary education. Such action would be ill-advised. Read more...
24 octobre 2015
UberEd
By Terrell Halaska. Make no mistake, innovation is already alive and well in the education-technology industry, which has received more than $2.51 billion from investors so far in 2015, and is on track to potentially double the $2.42 billion total invested last year. Read more...
23 octobre 2015
When Shrinkage Is Good
By Kellie Woodhouse. Five years ago Staten Island’s Wagner College was struggling to make enrollment targets.
It was shortly after the financial crisis of 2008, and not only were demographic trends unfavorable in the Northeast, but a lot of families were under immense financial strain and looking for as much of a discount as possible as their children chose colleges. Read more...
23 octobre 2015
New Lender for a New Market
By Paul Fain. A new company is seeking to be both a private lender and an alternative accreditor for the fast-growing boot camp sector.
The Texas-based Skills Fund is up and running with financial backing from Iowa Student Loan, a nonprofit loan guarantor with deep pockets. Read more...
23 octobre 2015
Suing Student Loan Servicers
By Michael Stratford. Student loan borrowers and others will be able to sue a national student loan corporation after a federal appeals court said Wednesday that the corporation’s affiliation with a state government does not shield it from lawsuits. Read more...
23 octobre 2015
H-1B Under Scrutiny
By Elizabeth Redden. The H-1B guest worker visa program has been coming under scrutiny lately.
The program is important to colleges both in terms of their ability to hire postdocs and other researchers from abroad and, more indirectly, in providing a pathway for the international students they recruit to work in the U.S. after graduation. Read more...
23 octobre 2015
Who Should Prevent Social Media Harassment?
By Josh Logue. On Wednesday 72 women's and civil rights organizations urged the U.S. Education Department to tell colleges that they must monitor anonymous apps like Yik Yak -- frequently the source of sexist and racist comments about named or identifiable students -- and do something to protect those students who are named. Read more...
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