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UNC Charlotte Posts Personal Data on 350,000 People
System misconfiguration and incorrect access settings are to blame for exposed data discovered by staff at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
By Brian Warmoth • May 16, 2012 -
Catholic university drops student health coverage over contraception mandate
A Roman Catholic college in Ohio announced Tuesday that it will discontinue its student health-insurance plan in the upcoming academic year rather than offer students a plan that would soon include free birth control
By Brian Warmoth • May 16, 2012 -
Trendline
Mental Health and Wellness
This Trendline examines how colleges can address rising mental health concerns and support at-risk groups, such as transgender students and college athletes.
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Rethinking the humanities Ph.D.
The warning last year from Russell Berman, who at the time was president of the Modern Language Association, was apocalyptic: If doctoral programs in the humanities do not reduce the time taken to graduate, they will become unaffordable and face extinction
By Brian Warmoth • May 16, 2012 -
The Homework Trap
Kenneth Goldberg, Ph.D. writes on the stresses introduced by homework for Edutopia
By Brian Warmoth • May 15, 2012 -
U Of Maryland, Baltimore County Employees Out Of Jobs After State Audit Uncovers Improper Expenditures
Issue, including purchase of $4,400 in gift cards, referred to attorney general
By Brian Warmoth • May 15, 2012 -
Name to Know: University of Texas President William C. Powers Jr.
Powers' face-off over tuition prices has reportedly put his job his opponents' crosshairs
By Brian Warmoth • May 15, 2012 -
Florida A&M President Suspends Band Through Next Year
Florida A&M University has suspended its famed marching band, which has been embroiled in a hazing scandal, for the forthcoming academic year, the president, James H. Ammons, announced on Monday.
By Brian Warmoth • May 14, 2012 -
More College Presidents Hail From Outside Academia
Michael Alexander has heard it all before: People with business backgrounds do not understand academia and are ill-equipped to lead colleges and universities.
By Brian Warmoth • May 14, 2012 -
Daily Value: $31,048 in debt per student for New Hampshire graduates
Dartmouth College and University of New Hampshire students are among some of the most debt-afflicted in the U.S.
By Brian Warmoth • May 14, 2012 -
13 schools who have produced the most Fortune 500 CEOs
In the wake of former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's departure, a look at which schools make the most powerful leaders
By Brian Warmoth • May 14, 2012 -
Indiana U. Signs Pearson into eTexts Program
Deal will offer new textbook options for instructors as they look to reduce curriculum prices
By Brian Warmoth • May 14, 2012 -
University of Texas community rallies behind Austin president in dispute with politicians
The idea that students would come out en masse to support a president after he repeatedly tried to increase tuition over his superiors' objections might seem farcical, but it's exactly what happened last week in Texas.
By Brian Warmoth • May 14, 2012 -
Daily Value: $2.4 million settlement in Virginia nursing students' fraud suit
73 former Virginia Western Community College nursing students to receive compensation after school lost its accreditation
By Brian Warmoth • May 13, 2012 -
Name to Know: Leslie Wong, the new president at S.F. State
Wong steps into a big California school as state budgets continue to tighten
By Brian Warmoth • May 13, 2012 -
Colleges Takes Many Paths to the Cloud
When it comes to cloud deployments, colleges use public, private and hybrid clouds.
By Brian Warmoth • May 11, 2012 -
University of California faces questions about its governance structure
If something is broken, people tend to want to fix it. But when the something in question is surrounded by other complex and potentially deficient systems, as seems to be the case for the University of California, how does one even begin to figure out to fix it?
By Brian Warmoth • May 11, 2012 -
Trustees Of All-Male College Try To Block Admission Of Women
Deep Springs College, an all-male school north of Death Valley, plans to admit women next year for the first time in its 95-year history. But two trustees are attempting to block the change.
By Brian Warmoth • May 10, 2012 -
Of state's universities, only U of I has spouse of president on payroll
Although the head of the Iowa Board of Regents says the duties of a university president’s spouse are equal to that of a full-time job, only one of Iowa’s three state universities has put the president’s spouse on its payroll. ...
By Brian Warmoth • May 10, 2012 -
Candace Thille talks MOOCs and machine learning
When Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sent ripples through the higher education world last week by announcing edX, a joint platform for massive online versions of their courses, many observers took it as a boon for access.
By Brian Warmoth • May 10, 2012 -
Law School Plans to Offer Web Courses for Master's
The law school of Washington University announced Tuesday that it would offer, entirely online, a master’s degree in United States law intended for lawyers practicing overseas, in partnership with 2tor, an education technology company.
By Brian Warmoth • May 9, 2012 -
Best in Class US Colleges and Universities by Internet Media Buzz
MIT earns "Best in Class Overall."
By Brian Warmoth • May 9, 2012 -
$10,000 degree push has led to innovation in pricing but not cost control
$10,000 may not be able to buy as much as it used to, but Texas politicians and higher education administrators think that with a little experimentation it can buy a pretty good bachelor's degree.
By Brian Warmoth • May 9, 2012 -
Davidson reconsidering requirement that president be Presbyterian
At Davidson College, board members are preparing to spend the next several months studying a question of identity: whether a Presbyterian college needs a Presbyterian president.
By Brian Warmoth • May 9, 2012 -
New Microgrants at U. of Michigan Will Spark Innovative Research
The University of Michigan, in a bid to expand and broaden its base of scientific research, is offering faculty members a new microgrant plan that would directly finance the exploratory phase of an idea.
By Brian Warmoth • May 9, 2012 -
U. Of Miami Medical School To Lay Off Up To 800
Up to 800 people will lose their jobs under a major restructuring at the University of Miami medical school, President Donna Shalala said Tuesday afternoon.
By Brian Warmoth • May 8, 2012
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