By Paulina Nozka - Evolllution. As a working professional, how would you go about choosing an educational provider when the time came to upgrade your skills?
I was recently asked about the main factors that help a university stand out in the employee education space. More...
By Quinn Shamblin - Evolllution. College and university IT infrastructures are becoming increasingly complex and critical to institutional growth and success. Institutions want to be able to provide their students with borderless access to partner colleges. More...
By Sarah Jewett - Evolllution. Since 2011, UMBC has embarked on an ambitious journey to identify, examine, and address the issues facing transfer students. As part of this process, we launched two new projects. The first project, the STEM Transfer Student Success Initiative, is focused on the creation of local institutional partnerships to support the success of students in transition, as well as the subsequent development of a national model of collaboration between two-year and four-year institutions. More...
By Furqan Nazeeri - Evolllution. Higher education institutions across the United States are looking for ways to expand their reach while reducing their costs. This has become particularly pronounced given the steadily declining resources at their disposal and the increasing public pressure to keep tuition and fees at the lowest rates possible. More...
By Susan Davenport - Evolllution. As the quality and acceptance of online programming has grown steadily over the past decade, so too has the demographic of students online providers can serve. In fact, a study by the Learning House found that nearly half of online students live less than 50 miles away from the institution at which they are enrolled. More...
By . Morning, all. August 24th. Back, as promised.
School starts shortly. The new crop of frosh were born in 1997, if you can believe that – to them, Princess Diana has never been alive, and Kyoto has always been a synonym for climate change politics (check out the Beloit Mindset List for more of these ). Stormclouds line the economic horizon. It’s going to be an interesting year. More...
By . UBC’s Montalbano Professor of Leadership Studies, Jennifer Berdahl, became embroiled in a mini-cause célèbre this week when she claimed her employer attempted to silence her, after she penned some thoughts on President Arvind Gupta’s resignation. Do read her j’accuse, available here; it’s quite something. Finished? Ok, on we go.
The question is: was Berdahl’s freedom infringed upon? Let’s start with the fact that there are many definitions of academic freedom, with the scope being quite different in each case. More...
By . Why do we give people student loans and grants? Is it to help them get knowledge, or just credentials? That question is subject to much debate in Washington right now. At issue is whether student assistance helps or hinders innovation in higher education; at stake are potentially billions of dollars in public funding.
Let’s rewind a bit here: student aid in the US is governed by something that goes by the name of “Title IV” (meaning, essentially, chapter IV of the Higher Education Act, as amended from time-to-time). More...
By Michael Feldstein. I don’t know of any other way to put this. Purdue University is harming higher education by knowingly peddling questionable research for the purpose of institutional self-aggrandizement. Purdue leadership should issue a retraction and an apology. More...
By Phil Hill. Richard Culatta from the US Department of Education (DOE, ED, never sure of proper acronym) wrote a Medium post today describing a new DOE initiative to evaluate ed tech app effectiveness. More...
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