Because you read a lifehacking blog like HackCollege you obviously already make your bed every day. Right? Because all students make their bed each morning. Because students never take naps. Because students always get a full night's rest. And nobody has a [...]
Happy thanksgiving.
[...]As Inside Higher Ed reports, there has been yet another gathering of higher education leaders talking about how higher education needs to change. This time they talked about the need to serve diverse and non-traditional students, borrowing ideas from the for-profit colleges and creating flexibility for students. All sound [...]
Leaders of U. of California and its Berkeley campus say they share concerns of students who protest against them. Efforts to form alliances, however, are stymied by recent missteps.
[...]Is the term "out of print" now an anachronism? Scott McLemee eavesdrops on planning for a brave new world.
[...]President Obama on Tuesday created a new Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, and named two university presidents to lead it. Amy Gutmann of the University of Pennsylvania will be chair and James W. Wagner of Emory University will be the vice chair. “As our nation invests in [...]
Students who choose a major early accumulate more skills than their peers but are likelier to switch to an unrelated occupation, study finds.
[...]An anti-evolution group -- backed by the actor Kirk Cameron -- has been spending time this week handing out copies of The Origin of Species that feature an introduction that undercuts Darwin's analysis. Cameron helped with the effort at the University of California at Los Angeles, but some students [...]
New effort focuses on preventing unwanted pregnancies at community colleges.
[...]The J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation announced a $20 million plan this week to bolster college going and success in its home state of Idaho. Foundation officials plan to distribute $11 million -- in $1 million increments to 11 colleges in the state -- for scholarships, $6 million [...]
Among worldwide total, China's share has grown dramatically in last 5 years while the U.S. and Europe have seen declines.
[...]Mario Rocha, a freshman on a scholarship at George Washington University, is the subject of a profile in The Washington Post -- and this isn't your standard "frosh adjusts to college" story. Rocha was wrongly convicted of first degree murder and spent 10 years behind bars before his appeal' [...]
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' [...]Remember how colleges were going to scale back on the popular but controversial admissions strategy? As the economic downturn drags on, many institutions see interest growing and some are encouraging it.
[...]The survey of student engagement has been widely embraced as an accountability tool. But it's flawed as a measure of campus learning, Mark Schneider writes, and even weaker when used for comparing colleges.
[...]Five adjuncts at Massachusetts community colleges have sued the state, saying that they meet the requirements for receiving health insurance from their institutions but are being denied coverage unfairly, The Boston Globe reported. The adjuncts -- backed by the faculty union for the community colleges -- hope to change [...]
Responding to claims that police used excessive force to quell campus protests Friday, the University of California at Berkeley will conduct an investigation of the events, university officials announced Monday. The probe will be conducted by the Campus Police Review Board, which includes representatives of students, faculty and staff. [...]
With $9 million in grants to 7 states and focus on recipients' common tactics for more productive use of money, Lumina Foundation aims to drive progress toward college completion goal.
The outgoing chancellor of California's San Jose/Evergreen Community College District has been "richly rewarded" for her work at a time when the district is cutting courses and academic services, The San Jose Mercury News reported. Documents obtained by the newspaper showed that during the last four years, Rosa Perez, [...]
California community college sued by students and faculty for opening official events with Christian prayer.
[...]A foundation charged by federal authorities with illegally providing assistance to Iran has also been making grants for years to universities, The New York Times reported. The grants -- to support study and teaching on Persian language and culture -- went to Columbia, Harvard, Portland State and Rutgers Universities.
[...]The U.S. Education Department is investigating allegations that Virginia Military Institute -- which admitted women more than a decade ago only after a prolonged legal fight -- is discriminating against women today, the Associated Press reported. The allegations -- denied by VMI -- involve the environment at the institute, [...]
Midwest group begins work on a "credential repository" for students to figure out how to translate their classes and work experience into degrees.
[...]Students at the University of North Texas have voted down -- 58 to 42 percent -- a proposal to allow same-sex couples to run for spots in the homecoming court, The Dallas Morning News reported. Many colleges have had men win election as homecoming queens, women as kings, and [...]
How unfair is it to have gone through 13 grades of school, done everything better than anyone else, been involved in an unreasonable number of activities, been the high school valedictorian, gone off to George Washington University, graduated magna cum laude from the GW business [...]
In high school, I took a correspondence course. At the time this was a fairly normal thing to do. Today, the idea of mailing tests and essays back and forth between teacher and student is tantamount to writing checks for groceries–it’s time consuming, archaic, and totally out-moded. Since then, [...]
