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Big Ten and Ivy League Will Study Concussions Together
Two prominent athletic conferences, the Big Ten Conference and the Ivy League, announced on Tuesday a new collaboration to study the effects of concussions and other head injuries on athletes, a growing concern in recent years. The two conferences, which represent 20 institutions, hope to tap ...
By Shehryar Nabi • June 19, 2012 -
Cisco Networking Academy Moves to Cloud-Based LMS
Teachers, administrators, and students who are part of the Cisco Networking Academy will soon have access to a cloud-based LMS. Cisco Networking Academy, which provides information and communications technology education through universities, community colleges, and high schools around the glo...
By Shehryar Nabi • June 19, 2012 -
Colleges Focus on Web App Security
The ever-expanding number of mobile users running web apps has raised the profile of the IT security staff at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. Today, students use web browsers on mobile devices to access event calendars, check bus schedules, view grades, read assignments and participate in...
By Shehryar Nabi • June 19, 2012 -
Stanford and Piazza to introduce social learning to iTunes U resources
"iPad and iPhone Application Development" will begin offering student communication features this summer
By Brian Warmoth • June 19, 2012 -
Colleges start new programs
Brown University is starting an executive master of healthcare leadership program. Mercy College, in Ohio, has started an online bachelor of science in medical imaging. The degree is a degree-completion program for graduates of associate degree programs in radiological science or nuclear medic...
By Shehryar Nabi • June 19, 2012 -
Complete College America declares war on remediation
Complete College America is on a crusade to improve remedial education, which it says is hopelessly broken and failing students. The group has had big successes in a campaign that is gathering steam, but some community college leaders say their rhetoric and proposed fixes go too far. That diss...
By Shehryar Nabi • June 19, 2012 -
University of Virginia president defends self as interim president is named
McIntire School of Commerce dean named as interim replacement for Sullivan
By Brian Warmoth • June 19, 2012 -
15 Colleges Receive Grants for Innovation in Helping Faculty Retire
The American Council on Education and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation on Monday awarded $100,000 grants to each of 15 colleges for adopting innovative approaches to helping faculty weather the winter of their careers. The grants will enable each institution to further develop its programs that ...
By Shehryar Nabi • June 18, 2012 -
Government report cites millions in unclaimed education tax breaks
2009 records show 1.5 million filers may have neglected to take advantage of higher ed-related tax benefits
By Brian Warmoth • June 18, 2012 -
Deltak Partners With Boston University To Launch New Online Graduate Law Degree
Education Service Provider to Introduce Second Online Master’s Degree Program with University Read more »
By Shehryar Nabi • June 18, 2012 -
Oklahoma A&M Regents Approve Tuition Hike
Tuition and fees will increase for undergraduate and graduate students at Oklahoma State University under the new budget approved Friday by the Oklahoma A&M Board of Regents. Read more »
By Shehryar Nabi • June 18, 2012 -
Pennsylvania university to use live TV broadcasts for its emergency alert system
Misercodia picks new uAlert system for television notifications during times of trouble
By Brian Warmoth • June 18, 2012 -
Harvard Adds 600 kWh Rooftop Solar Array
Source: Jon Chase, Harvard staff photographer As part of its goal to decrease institutional energy usage by 30 percent in the 10 years between 2006 and 2016, Harvard University has just installed the largest solar project on campus. Working with Borrego Solar Systems, the university placed 2,2...
By Brian Warmoth • June 18, 2012 -
Undocumented students to avoid deportation following Obama announcement
Approved candidates who have lived in the country long enough to receive work authorization
By Brian Warmoth • June 18, 2012 -
Ousted University of Virginia president reportedly wanted to protect language programs
Controversy surrounding Sullivan's treatment draws attention of critics, including the AAUP
By Brian Warmoth • June 18, 2012 -
Stanford Lures 3 Top Economists From Harvard
As one of the nation's leading market-design economists, Alvin E. Roth has helped plan systems that place medical residents in hospitals, children in public schools, and kidneys in sick patients. In recent years, the Harvard professor has helped a number of cutting-edge young economists la...
By Lindsey Smith • June 18, 2012 -
UMass Looks to 'Swamy' to Lead Amherst, With Congeniality
Kumble R. Subbaswamy likes to quote Thomas Jefferson: "Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity." Mr. Subbaswamy used the quote in his address to the campus of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in March, during his ...
By Lindsey Smith • June 18, 2012 -
AAUP Censures 3 Louisiana Universities and Rebukes U. of Virginia
Members of the American Association of University Professors unanimously voted at the organization's annual conference Saturday to censure the administrations of three Louisiana public universities for alleged violations of their faculty members' rights. Members of the organization, ne...
By Lindsey Smith • June 17, 2012 -
A Mostly Perplexed AAUP Accepts Pledge to Treat Its Staff Fairly
The proposed resolution appeared to come out of nowhere and it responded to events that went unmentioned, as few members of the American Association of University Professors acknowledged knowing anything about them and those in the know remained silent. In the end, however, the AAUP members ga...
By Lindsey Smith • June 17, 2012 -
UCLA researcher says he was fired for political reasons
After 35-years, Enstrom claims pollution and secondhand smoke research made him a target
By Brian Warmoth • June 17, 2012 -
SF City College Urged To Halt Absent Trustees' Pay
Officials who oversee the state's community college system are urging City College of San Francisco to stop paying trustees for the meetings they fail to attend - a practice the state authority says is illegal. Read more »
By Lindsey Smith • June 17, 2012 -
PSU cover-up suspected as Sandusky trial continues
Other Penn State employees implicated as alleged victims testify
By Brian Warmoth • June 17, 2012 -
Campus Housing Crunch Has Cornerstone University Offering Students Discounts For Accepting 5Th Roommate
A campus housing crunch at Cornerstone University is forcing administrators to get creative. Read more »
By Lindsey Smith • June 17, 2012 -
Threat of accreditation withdrawal causes drop in Career Education shares
Share prices of Career Education, a for-profit education provider, have dropped to their lowest in ten years due to demands that they provide justification for not having their accreditation withdrawn
By Brian Warmoth • June 14, 2012
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