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21 septembre 2014

Thinking Chair

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Some 30 years ago, Eugene Fram, then a professor of marketing at Rochester Institute of Technology, returned a complex assignment to a graduate student with a large “C” at the top. The paper – which asked students to respond to a provocative statement about marketing with background information and citations – had been turned in late and was poorly written. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

The New Cambridge

HomeBy Chris Havergal for Times Higher Education. The £1 billion ($1.63 billion) North West Cambridge development will eventually boast 3,000 homes, half of them set aside for university staff, plus 100,000 square meters of research space and 2,000 additional bedrooms for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Predicting Where Students Go

HomeBy Ry Rivard. A trio of senior college enrollment officials gave a peek into how they decide which students to recruit. The process now involves number-crunching students’ demographic and economic information — not just sending chipper ambassadors to every nearby high school, mailing glossy books to students’ homes and relying on gut instincts. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Sharing Intel on Completion

HomeBy Paul Fain. A new coalition of 11 large public research universities plans to work together on techniques to improve their graduation rates, particularly for lower-income students. Dubbed the University Innovation Alliance, the group hopes to dial back the hyper-competitiveness and quest for exclusivity in higher education that can stymie collaboration on how to help students get to graduation. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

'Undermining Pell'

HomeBy Ry Rivard. Hundreds of colleges charge low-income students tuition that is half or more of their household’s entire yearly income, according to a report released today by the New America Foundation that seeks to shed light on colleges’ aid practices and to prod Congress to change the structure of Pell Grants. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

High Impact, Low Participation

HomeBy Paul Fain. Community colleges now have solid data on which strategies work best to help students get to graduation. While more colleges are using those techniques, far too few students are benefiting from them. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Wage Data Done Right

HomeBy Paul Fain. Measuring the job-market returns of college credentials is complex work, according to researchers who gathered here this week for a meeting on higher education data. That makes it challenging, or even risky, for policy makers to use those metrics to hold colleges accountable. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Bill Targets U.S. Education Research

HomeBy Michael Stratford. The U.S. Senate’s education committee on Wednesday unanimously approved an education research bill over the objection of some researchers who said they’re concerned about the changes it makes to how federal education research is overseen. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Fight Over Digital Accessibility

HomeBy Michael Stratford. Advocates for students with disabilities and groups representing colleges and universities are sparring over federal legislation that would set new standards for accessible technology on campuses. Read more...
21 septembre 2014

Why do people who love libraries love libraries?

By Brian Mathews. Why do people who love libraries love libraries? This has been on my mind a lot lately. Whenever I find a patron who is passionate about their library I try to decode those tangible and intangible qualities that made the experience so powerful for them. More...

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