Higher Ed: Page 340


  • Coursera adds marketing chief

    Former Disney and eBay executive Kurt Apen will fill the newly created position.

    By Keith Button • Oct. 27, 2014
  • Deep Dive

    These 10 campuses are among America's most haunted

    Long, sometimes-disputed histories and creepy old buildings are the perfect recipe for ghost stories and strange happenings.

    By Roger Riddell • Oct. 27, 2014
  • Trendline

    Enrollment and Retention

    A look at the pandemic's continuing impact on enrollment and how colleges can ensure students stay on course.

    By Higher Ed Dive staff
  • Report proposes joint fed-state higher ed funding

    The Center for American Progress is proposing that the federal government encourage states to invest in public colleges and universities through a matching funding program-- with strings attached.

    By Keith Button • Oct. 27, 2014
  • New York colleges drop broad criminal background questions

    Three institutions of higher education have signed agreements with the state's attorney general to stop asking applicants broad questions about their arrest and conviction histories.

    By Keith Button • Oct. 27, 2014
  • Higher ed's most expensive room and board? NY School of Interior Design

    Living on-campus runs students $21,000 per year.

    By Keith Button • Oct. 24, 2014
  • Image attribution tooltip
    Fotolia
    Image attribution tooltip

    U of Nebraska alcohol death leads to four arrests, fraternity suspension

    The arrests come two months after a freshman fraternity member at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln died from drinking too much alcohol.

    By Keith Button • Oct. 24, 2014
  • Campus IT bracing for 'Internet of Things' demands

    The estimated 26 billion wireless devices in the "Internet of Things" is expected to put a strain on campus wireless networks, data centers, and IT security.    

    By Keith Button • Oct. 24, 2014
  • Higher ed trade association CEOs well paid

    Tax filings by 48 higher education trade associations reveal that most top executives were paid more than the $400,000 median salary of university presidents.

    By Keith Button • Oct. 24, 2014
  • Oklahoma band director issue resolved, Ohio State still facing its own

    The University of Oklahoma's marching band director resigned in response to leadership complaints, while Ohio State filed a response to its fired band director's lawsuit.

    By Keith Button • Oct. 24, 2014
  • Deep Dive

    These 6 incidents pitted faculties against their administrations

    Votes of no confidence and other measures have seen varying degrees of success when faculty express their displeasure with campus leadership.

    By Keith Button • Oct. 23, 2014
  • Loopholes give campus rapists clean slate with transfer

    Many higher ed sexual assault policies don't require institutions to inform other colleges and universities, or the police, about cases when the accused student transfers.

    By Keith Button • Oct. 23, 2014
  • Heavy presence for Ohio colleges on student loan default lists

    According to Quartz, no state has more schools with larger increases in three-year student loan defaults.

    By Keith Button • Oct. 23, 2014
  • Image attribution tooltip
    Fotolia
    Image attribution tooltip

    RTI International's new tool tracks community college success

    The Completion Arch analyzes federal and state data on community colleges to get a better understanding of how students progress and succeed.

    By Keith Button • Oct. 23, 2014
  • Education Dept easing PLUS loan credit requirements

    The new standards will take effect at the end of March 2015. 

    By Keith Button • Oct. 23, 2014
  • Over 3,000 students across two decades mixed up in UNC cheating scandal

    The latest investigation conducted by a former Justice Department official reveals a wider-ranging fraud than prior probes.

    By Roger Riddell • Oct. 22, 2014
  • Oklahoma president hears out marching band after $20K in critical ads

    Much of the band's complaints were with its leadership and a rule forbidding them to publicly criticize it.

    By Keith Button • Oct. 22, 2014
  • Image attribution tooltip
    Fotolia
    Image attribution tooltip

    UNC-Greensboro chancellor says retirement unrelated to employee arrests

    Controversy in the university's public relations office under leadership she appointed reportedly has nothing to do with Linda Brady's exit.

    By Keith Button • Oct. 22, 2014
  • Ebola forces tough travel choices for campus administrators

    Administrators are balancing campus health and safety with allowing faculty and students access to medical and humanitarian opportunities in affected West African countries. 

    By Keith Button • Oct. 22, 2014
  • U of Wisconsin campus' VHS-to-digital conversion could take 10 years

    The university's La Crosse campus has over 5,000 tapes in its VHS library.    

    By Keith Button • Oct. 22, 2014
  • Lynda.com now offers courses for IT professionals

    Online learning company lynda.com has launched courses aimed at helping businesses and individuals keep their IT skills current.

    By Keith Button • Oct. 22, 2014
  • Image attribution tooltip
    EdCast
    Image attribution tooltip
    Deep Dive

    EdCast CEO: The multiversity can help fend off MOOC disruption

    While his company utilizes MOOCs as an open resource, Karl Mehta says its platform doesn't require institutions to give up intellectual property and students to third parties.

    By Roger Riddell • Oct. 21, 2014
  • National data exchange will help boost community college degrees

    More students will be able to receive their associate degrees with the help of reverse credit transfers thanks to the new exchange.

    By Keith Button • Oct. 21, 2014
  • Stanford tops 2013 college fundraising list

    Stanford University raised $931.6 million from private donors in 2013, the most of any U.S. college or university.

    By Keith Button • Oct. 21, 2014
  • Rice University launches first AP MOOCs on edX

    The free course covers AP Biology and would soon be followed by courses from Boston University, MIT, and more.

    By Keith Button • Oct. 21, 2014
  • Burlington College selling lakefront property to pay down debt

    To help pay down $11.4 million in debt, the Vermont college is proposing a sale of 25 of the 32 acres it bought in 2010.

    By Keith Button • Oct. 21, 2014