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Gamification and acquisitions: The week's most-read education news
Fall behind? Catch up on the MIT's 'short course' expansion and the latest acquisitions and funding rounds from Blackboard, Advisory Board, and Instructure right here!
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 20, 2015 -
UMass to allow Iranians in science and engineering programs after all
The Amherst campus has reversed course on a policy decision meant to stay in line with U.S. sanctions on the Middle Eastern nation.
By Keith Button • Feb. 20, 2015 -
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TrendlineArtificial Intelligence
As AI continues its forward march in education and the workplace, colleges are grapplling with how best to incorporate the emerging technology into admissions, courrsework and elsewhere
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Critics claim political motives in NC higher ed research center closings
The University of North Carolina System board has closed down three research centers focused on poverty, biodiversity, and civic engagement and social change.
By Keith Button • Feb. 20, 2015 -
U of California tuition hike postponed amid negotiations
UC President Janet Napolitano halted the increases in a show of good faith as she continues funding negotiations with Gov. Jerry Brown.
By Keith Button • Feb. 20, 2015 -
City College of San Francisco accreditor ordered to reconsider 2013 decision
A lawsuit against the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges came to a close with the college in restoration status, giving it two years to come into compliance.
By Keith Button • Feb. 19, 2015 -
What will measure the success of Obama's community college plan?
A New York Times columnist argues that graduation rates, not a simple enrollment boost, are the measuring stick for the proposed program.
By Keith Button • Feb. 19, 2015 -
Higher ed regulations lambasted in Congressional task force report
The report calls for relief from the federal regulations and a better process for developing new rules.
By Keith Button • Feb. 17, 2015 -
STEM bachelor's degree coming to Washington state community college
Washington is among states attempting to meet STEM demand by allowing four-year degrees at community colleges, but such programs could face significant nontraditional competition.
By Keith Button • Feb. 17, 2015 -
California cuts Corinthian subsidary off from aid payments
Heald College's 'at-risk reimbursement status' is the latest headache for the shuttering for-profit college chain as it attempts to sell off its campuses.
By Keith Button • Feb. 17, 2015 -
What obligations do higher ed institutions have under U.S. sanctions law?
A policy enacted at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst prevents Iranian students from enrolling in certain science and engineering programs.
By Keith Button • Feb. 17, 2015 -
University researchers under attack from 'abusive' open records requests
Activists are using Freedom of Information laws to request massive numbers of emails and documents from university researchers.
By Eli Dickinson • Feb. 14, 2015 -
Coding schools and in-flight MOOCs: The week's most read education news
Fall behind? Get caught up on Harvard Business School's global online push and more right here!
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 13, 2015 -
Report: Performance-based funding most effective when stakes are raised
A report sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation finds that performance-based public college funding programs are most effective when larger amounts of state funding are at stake.
By Keith Button • Feb. 13, 2015 -
Florida Gov. Scott pushes for grad school tuition freeze
A proposed bill would also curb college textbook prices.
By Keith Button • Feb. 12, 2015 -
Report confirms NYU international campus construction worker abuse
A Human Rights Watch report confirms laborers building New York University's new campus in the United Arab Emirates were arrested and even deported for protesting substandard pay.
By Keith Button • Feb. 12, 2015 -
Report: Fossil fuel divestment can hurt colleges
A report funded by a petroleum industry group says colleges shouldn't divest from fossil fuel investments.
By Keith Button • Feb. 11, 2015 -
Five years later, is Thiel's college dropout fellowship a success?
Venture capitalist Peter Thiel's 2010 idea to pay entrepreneurs to drop out of school and pursue their dreams has generated investments, buy-outs, and discussions about higher education's value of higher.
By Keith Button • Feb. 10, 2015 -
Boston College ordered to turn over Northern Ireland conflict research
The ongoing legal issues surrounding confidential interviews from an oral history project on the civil conflict in Northern Ireland could have a chilling effect on similar research.
By Keith Button • Feb. 10, 2015 -
U of California drops plan to tie coaching bonuses to academics
The university may reconsider the incentive bonus proposal next month.
By Keith Button • Feb. 9, 2015 -
Obama's community college push focuses on quick, cheap path to job skills
Some of the president's remarks could be perceived as a knock against four-year institutions.
By Keith Button • Feb. 9, 2015 -
Will Amazon campus centers push bookstores out? The week's most read education news
Pearson's Todd Hitchcock shares the secrets of successful online degree programs, Blackboard buys Schoolwires, and more!
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 6, 2015 -
Higher ed CIOs unclear on FCC's mobile hot spot stance
The agency has barred hotels and other establishments from blocking mobile Wi-Fi hotspots, but hasn't clarified whether that applies to college and university campuses.
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 6, 2015 -
Boston U adjuncts to organize under SEIU
The vote to form a union passed by a 2-to-1 margin.
By Keith Button • Feb. 6, 2015 -
Mandatory sex assault reporting raises concerns
Institutions' increasing requirements that professors report when students come forward with sexual assault claims could have a chilling effect on professor-student communication.
By Keith Button • Feb. 5, 2015 -
Former Corinthian students to receive loan debt relief in sale
Students at the campuses sold to ECMC Group will receive cuts of as much as 40% in their student loan debt.
By Keith Button • Feb. 4, 2015
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