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Presidents, ed tech, and MOOCs: The week's most read education news
Get caught up on the new big data MOOCs from BerkeleyX, higher ed presidents to watch in 2015, and more right here!
By Roger Riddell • Dec. 5, 2014 -
Napolitano: Grad schools need advocates
The University of California System's president told college administrators Thursday that they need to take the case for why graduate schools need more support directly to lawmakers.
By Keith Button • Dec. 5, 2014 -
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TrendlineEnrollment and Retention
A look at the pandemic's continuing impact on enrollment and how colleges can ensure students stay on course.
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Deep Dive
13 higher ed tech tools and approaches to watch in 2015
Recent awards and listings have raised the profile of a wide range of higher ed technology companies and institutional ed tech efforts.
By Keith Button • Dec. 5, 2014 -
Survey: College loan debt worries current students
A survey of current college students show that most believe student loan debt will follow them for decades.
By Keith Button • Dec. 5, 2014 -
How do prospective students in China see the U.S.?
Conversations with college students in China reveal a belief in stereotypes about the U.S., but a willingness to consider alternative viewpoints.
By Keith Button • Dec. 5, 2014 -
MOOC student data privacy debatable
Because most people who take massive open online courses are technically not students in the eyes of the U.S. Department of Education, the privacy of their data is not legally protected.
By Keith Button • Dec. 5, 2014 -
Deep Dive
6 higher ed presidents to watch in 2015
Over the next year, these administrators could set new standards for dealing with everything from cheating scandals and campus sex assault to questions about leadership backgrounds.
By Roger Riddell • Dec. 4, 2014 -
U of Maine System cuts coal investments
Only $500,000 of the university system’s $9.8 million in fossil fuel investments will be affected by the coal divestment.
By Keith Button • Dec. 4, 2014 -
How much did the Salaita controversy damage the U. of Illinois?
Department heads at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have written a letter describing the damage done by the decision to rescind a job offer over controversial tweets against Israel.
By Keith Button • Dec. 4, 2014 -
U. of Oregon facing grad teaching assistant strike
The strike is the first at the school since 1995.
By Keith Button • Dec. 4, 2014 -
Promises abound from White House higher ed summit
Participants in the Obama administration's second higher education summit have made more than 500 commitments to improve higher ed, mainly for low-income or prospective students.
By Keith Button • Dec. 4, 2014 -
Center for American Progress makes case for boosting public college funding
A new report from the organization presents a proposal to make public colleges and universities more accessible to low- and middle-income students.
By Keith Button • Dec. 4, 2014 -
UT-Austin loses 100 human brains
As of right now, no one is entirely sure what happened to the collection of brains that included UT-Austin sniper Charles Whitman.
By Roger Riddell • Dec. 3, 2014 -
SUNY adopts comprehensive sex assault policy
The State University of New York has issued what is described as the nation's most comprehensive higher ed sexual assault policy.
By Keith Button • Dec. 3, 2014 -
NYU in hot water again for overseas working conditions
Working conditions for construction laborers on the New York University outpost in Shanghai were not monitored as promised.
By Keith Button • Dec. 3, 2014 -
Top universities considering flexible course delivery options
Several top universities, including leaders of the MOOC movement, are considering new ideas that would allow students to decide when and where learning is delivered.
By Keith Button • Dec. 3, 2014 -
New big data MOOCs coming from BerkeleyX
UC-Berkeley will offer two new MOOCs through edX on using an open-source big data processing engine.
By Keith Button • Dec. 3, 2014 -
California legislators confront proposed UC tuition hike
Lawmakers are offering proposals of their own to prevent, or at least soften the blow, of University of California President Janet Napolitano's proposed 5% per year tuition hike.
By Keith Button • Dec. 3, 2014 -
Pearson touts benefits of online writing tool
A series of case studies from the education giant highlight the benefits of its Writing Space tool.
By Keith Button • Dec. 2, 2014 -
Former Creative Commons CEO joins EdCast
Catherine Casserly will serve as the Stanford StartX company's new vice president of learning networks.
By Roger Riddell • Dec. 2, 2014 -
Higher ed tuition rising faster for poor students
Even for colleges and universities that have pledged to expand opportunities for poor students, net tuition is rising faster for those from low-income families.
By Keith Button • Dec. 2, 2014 -
Donor threatens to rescind $4.5M if U of Illinois rehires adjunct
The part-timer in question is James Kilgore, who served about five years in prison for murder and was a former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
By Keith Button • Dec. 2, 2014 -
UVA's Sullivan outlines sex assault plan
The University of Virginia has come under fire in recent weeks for a sexual assault problem publicized in a Rolling Stone article.
By Keith Button • Dec. 2, 2014 -
$11M in grants expected to fund Indiana U's supercomputing cloud
A $6.6 million National Science Foundation grant kicks off five years of funding that will build and operate a supercomputing cloud available to researchers and students.
By Keith Button • Dec. 2, 2014 -
Ellucian unveils new SaaS solution for continuing ed programs
With Elevate, Ellucian aims to facilitate growth and track profitability within continuing education and workforce development programs.
By Roger Riddell • Dec. 1, 2014
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