In the age of Google and Wikipedia, can higher education create online reference works that are free, scholarly, and economically viable?
[...]When American students want to do good in the developing world, do they have the tools to help or are they going to be a burden on those who do? Debra Carney asks some tough questions.
[...]You can rely on the skills you've learned as a scholar to navigate a new career path, writes Sabine Hikel.
' [...]Seeking to bring the work of higher education scholars to bear on the policy and practice of colleges and universities, the Association for the Study of Higher Education's Council for the Advancement of Higher Education Programs and Inside Higher Ed announce the Higher Education Learning Briefs initiative. The project [...]
Paul A. Samuelson, one of the most influential scholars of economics, died Sunday at the age of 94. Samuelson was on the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was credited with leading the department's rise to become one of the most influential in economics. He won [...]
When colleges' borrowers are tracked three years into repayment instead of two, the rates at which they default on student loans rise by 75 percent. Many more risk penalties.
' [...]The Obama administration has launched a study of the open access model of publishing in which materials are made available free online. The tone of the notice about the study -- from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy -- suggests interest in expanding open access as [...]
The House of Representatives passed sweeping legislation on Saturday designed to toughen federal regulation of the finance industry, and the measure has significant implications for private student loans in two ways. First, it would ensure that all private student loans -- including those made directly to students by [...]
Florida State University has used the diagnoses of learning disabilities to recruit and assist many athletes, including some who may have had little chance of academic success and lacked basic reading skills, according to an ESPN broadcast on Sunday. The show suggested that some athletes are being admitted despite [...]
The fate of a merger with Baylor College of Medicine will likely be decided in the coming weeks, but concerns about the partnership remain pronounced.
[...]The Utah Board of Regents has approved a plan to make the College of Eastern Utah a regional campus of Utah State University, The Logan Herald Journal reported. The goal of the plan is not to save money, officials said, but to find ways to strengthen Eastern Utah, which [...]
Protesters attack home of Berkeley chancellor, escalating tensions and setting off debate on tactics.
[...]Australia's Education Ministry has released a paper on ways to carry out a plan to start judging - and financing -- universities based in part on performance targets, The Australian reported. Among the measures being considered: generic skills tests to show the "value added" during study at a university, [...]
The woman who was briefly expelled from a Brazilian university for wearing a miniskirt that was deemed to be too short is suing Bandeirantes University in Sao Paulo for $575,000, the Associated Press reported. While the woman was readmitted after a national debate on the issue, she charges that [...]
U.S. visa and immigration laws and policies need major changes for American universities to continue to attract top talent from abroad, according to a report being released today by NAFSA: Association of International Educators. Among the reforms the report endorses: expedited reviews for "low risk" visa applicants, new procedures [...]
Phyllis Wise, provost of the University of Washington, is facing growing criticism for joining the board of Nike, The Seattle Times reported. Wise and university officials note that it is common for higher education administrators to serve on corporate boards and that they can use these positions to encourage [...]
Pittsburgh's colleges and universities have rejected a demand from Mayor Luke Ravenstahl that they devise a plan to contribute $5 million to close the city's budget shortfall, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. The mayor has said that without such a commitment from higher education, he would push for a City [...]
With demand booming, U.S. says grant program's price tag will soar by $18 billion through 2011. Democrats see no impact on student loan reform.
[...]Teresa Mangum offers suggestions on the mechanics of this most important of conversations.
[...]Whether they've been naughty or nice, the men and women of U of All People are due gifts at this time of year. David Galef presents the wish list.
' [...]A drama instructor at the University of California at Davis was arrested last week over a joking reference to student evaluations he had with him as "a bomb," a remark that a few students took literally, The Sacramento Bee reported. Most of the students in the class signed a [...]
Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl has given local colleges and universities an ultimatum: Offer a plan to provide $5 million a year in support to the city, or the City Council will vote next week on his proposed 1 percent tuition tax, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. The plan for the [...]
Representatives of for-profit and nonprofit colleges push to maintain some Education Department guidance on acceptable forms of pay for admission and aid officers.
[...]The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Thursday announced a new approach to technology transfer, designed to avoid the need for long negotiations that can kill deals to market an idea created at the university. The concept is to have standard agreements for various kinds of deals, [...]
For-profit college set to join unique football league and take on seemingly strange peers: Ivy League universities and military service academies.
[...]Police arrested 33 protesters Thursday morning who had occupied the business school building at San Francisco State University, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. Campus police, along with San Francisco police, entered the building at 3:15 a.m. and some officers broke windows to get inside because doors had been blocked. [...]
Northwestern University Press on Thursday announced that it has acquired the publishing assets of Curbstone Press and that as of Jan. 1, it will publish new titles under the Curbstone imprint. Curbstone and Northwestern are both known for publishing literature from around the world in translation. Curbstone's current publishing list [...]
Fort Hays State is using federal economic recovery funds to pay $5 per credit for every grade of C or higher.
[...]Harvard University announced Thursday that it will delay, perhaps significantly, construction of a major science campus in Allston. The science center on the campus -- estimated to cost in the range of $1 billion -- was part of a major campaign by the university to build state-of-the-art laboratories and [...]
At accreditor's meeting, common refrain is that while everyone is assessing, far too many aren't doing much with results. Temple officials offer incremental strategy.
' [...]Founder shuts down chain of popular sites where "bored" students can post comments anonymously, following racist spam attack.
[...]A handful of private colleges see bond ratings improve during the financial crisis, crediting conservative budgeting and building reserves.
[...]Mikita Brottman bemoans the lost art of the creative syllabus, and what it says about our colleges and their students.
[...]Dartmouth College leaders are issuing apologies and talking about making use of a "teachable moment" following ugly fan behavior directed at members of Harvard University's squash team, The Boston Globe reported. Cheering at a squash match between the two institutions' teams turned into personal name-calling by some Dartmouth fans,' [...]
Young adults who attended college but left without graduating are likelier to attribute their departure to the need to work and make money than to the price of college. They also say that to get students like them to go to college, colleges and policy makers should focus as much [...]
A subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce passed legislation Wednesday that would prohibit the promotion of any post-season National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I contest “as a national championship game unless such game is the culmination of a fair and equitable playoff system.†The bill, introduced [...]
Students took over a building at San Francisco State University Wednesday morning and have held several days of non-disruptive protests at the University of California this week, the Associated Press reported. The protests are over both budget cuts and tuition increases (called fee increases in California).
[...]Three students started a hunger strike at Vassar College Tuesday, while other students organized a sing-in -- all designed to get the institution to reverse a decision to eliminate the jobs of 13 staff members, The Poughkeepsie Journal reported. The students say that the jobs can be preserved. College [...]
Preliminary study suggests that after steep drop in last half of 2008, college investments edged upward in first half of 2009. Overall decline in rate of return -- 19 percent -- would be biggest in 35 years.
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