By - Al-Fanar. Asian-Pacific students who participated in study-abroad programs gave a strong endorsement of the benefits, building support for governments and universities to spend more money on such student-exchange programs. Ninety-nine percent of the students said that the experience broadened their perspective on life; 97 percent said that it helped make them the person that they are today. More...
By . Spotting colleges and universities with the best mobile device policies is increasingly difficult, as higher education — driven in part by K-12′s mobile adoption — is investing time and money into creating the most friendly mobile atmosphere possible. More...
By Meris Stansbury - . The promise of digital badges for alternative credentials and skills pathways has not been lost on higher education; yet, there are many concerns—from business, faculty, and students—on the design, and use, of these badges for real meaning. A new framework condenses these concerns into nine critical questions concerning digital badges. More...
By Meris Stansbury - . The global emphasis on high-impact scientific and technological research is the key driver of leadership, say researchers in compiling the data for the QS World University Rankings, which are—for the third year—led by MIT. More...
By Mikhail Zinshteyn. A new rating system backed by the White House aims to evaluate nearly all of the nation's colleges and universities. Roughly 6,000 schools that educate around 22 million students are about to endure an unprecedented amount of federal scrutiny. More...
By Joseph Urgo. Return on investment (ROI) is the latest data fetish to emerge in our ongoing quest to understand why it is we educate ourselves and our children. ROI calculates the cost of a college education and compares that cost to expected earnings by someone who has that educational credential. If a four-year private college degree in History costs $200,000, and the average history major earns $50,000 a year, it takes four years to get that investment back. If a degree in Engineering costs the same, but the engineer earns $100,000 a year, the return is faster. And if the degree costs less, say $60,000 at a public college, that too can speed up the return. More...
By . Can architecture alone give a campus an air of Western prestige?
Over the next few weeks, American undergraduates flooding back to campus will take part in a university tradition even older than drinking from Solo cups or inhaling stale pizza: They’ll be setting up homes inside the rock-hewn walls of Gothic buildings that look like Medieval castles, retrofitted for serious scholars. Many of these buildings were designed a century ago, when young American colleges—desperate to assert their legitimacy—went on a knock-off binge. They cloned British universities’ libraries, cathedrals, quads, sculptures and even dress codes in the hopes of recreating the feel (and prestige) of Oxford and Cambridge. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. Campus Management Corp., a leading provider of enterprise software products and services for educational institutions, has unveiled its vision for the higher education market–the “On Demand Model.”
The On Demand Model recognizes that higher education is facing an unprecedented amount of change creating the need for new business processes and strategies to better compete, grow and retain students. This model is based on the premise that institutions are going to require new technologies that provide innovative capabilities for engagement and delivery. More...
By Tracy Mitrano. Below is a paper I am writing for another purpose and a European audience, but in light of the current debate about accessibility and the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act I have decided to give IHE readers a first review option. The main point of the article is that, for once, the developed world is converging on the same standards for accessibility: WCAG 2.0 AA as a minimum. Higher education should take advantage of this convergence, no, wait, better yet: become a leader in promoting it. Read more...
By G. Rendell. Rebecca Solnit recently posted a piece comparing, at least potentially, the People's Climate March taking place this Sunday in NYC with the events that led to the fall of the Iron Curtain. Read more...
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