Campus Management Corp. announced today the release of CampusNexus Occupation Insight™, a cloud-based workforce analytics tool that will provide higher education the insight it needs to align academic programs and skills development with a rapidly evolving job marketplace. More...
Minn. State university presidents say tuition freezes aren't working
Minnesota State university leaders want the freedom to raise tuition in order to pay for initiatives they say will improve student outcomes. More...
UAlbany breaks ground on major research center
The University at Albany is looking to expand its footprint in a big way, breaking ground Tuesday on a research and academic center on the Harriman state campus. More...
Dude Solutions debuts second annual Education Operations Health Index
Dude Solutions, the leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of operations management solutions today, released the results of the second annual Education Operations Health Index, a collection of unique data and survey results reporting on the state of education facilities and operations nationwide. More...
Property debate rages as Cumberland U. seeks taxpayer funding
Cumberland University in Wilson County is looking to expand its footprint and wants to use nearly $1 million dollars of taxpayers’ money to do it. More...
Echo360 leverages Amazon Transcribe
Echo360, a leading video platform for education, announced today a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), to integrate Amazon Transcribe within the Echo360 video platform to convert audio recordings into viewable, searchable text. More...
Ariz. high court rejects in-state tuition for DACA recipients
The unanimous ruling will affect at least 2,000 students attending the state’s largest community college district and hundreds more at other colleges and the state’s three public universities. More...
For-profit colleges lose when two-year colleges offer B.A. degrees
When Florida opened the door 17 years ago for two-year colleges to offer bachelor’s degrees, they expanded rapidly into a host of new areas: business, nursing, teaching, and more. St. Petersburg College alone created 25 bachelor’s programs. Thousands of students flocked to them, paying a fraction of what they would pay for an equivalent degree at the University of Florida. More...
U. of Ill. looks to strengthen ties with Africa
University officials recently visited South Africa and Malawi. The delegation visited with representatives from the University of Pretoria, Stellenbosch University and the University of Johannesburg, as well as government officials, The News-Gazette reported. More...
To succeed in tomorrow’s workforce, today’s students need equity-driven policy
Federal lawmakers are debating the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act against the backdrop of sobering forecasts about the nation’s future workforce demands. More...