With the competition for new jobs as fierce as ever, a college diploma is no longer an asset job seekers can do without, new research shows.
Enrollment & Retention
3/28/2013
VisionPoint Marketing will be responsible for extensive research and usability testing with the site’s primary audience groups, as well as design a set of cohesive, responsive website templates that leverage Virginia Tech’s existing brand. While VisionPoint will lead the project’s strategy and design phases, Jackson and his team will implement the new templates on their existing technical infrastructure.
3/28/2013
The Textbook AI by college is a new feature of the Akademos Textbook Adoption Tool released last year that provides faculty key metrics to compare the quality and cost of textbooks across 3,600 subject areas.
3/21/2013
Governed by the not-for-profit Computerworld Information Technology Awards Foundation, Computerworld Honors is the longest running global program to honor individuals and organizations that use information technology to promote positive social, economic and educational change.
3/21/2013
ApplyAlly announced the Q2 2013 launch of its social network geared toward prospective college students as well as academic institutions. ApplyAlly allows prospective students to search for and interact with schools they might be interested in attending, and it allows college admissions professionals access to student data and analytical tools to understand that data, providing a complete picture of each individual student.
3/20/2013
Every institution leader thinks about how to connect with students from a range of backgrounds. At Bluegrass Community and Technical College (Ky.), the Office of Latino Outreach and Student Support Services works to provide access to educational opportunities for students, and then supports them once they enroll. Erin Howard, Hispanic/Latino outreach director there, shares her perspective on admissions and outreach.
3/14/2013
The UH medical school was tied at No. 66 in primary care training with The University of California-Irvine, University of Connecticut, the University of Florida and West Virginia University in the rankings that came out this week.
3/14/2013
Forty of 85 students enrolled from Fort Bragg for courses that started Monday would have lost the federal grants. The school expected up to 100 students would be unable to register because of the budget cuts.
3/14/2013
While legislative action on immigration reform policies has been very limited, colleges and university campuses at least proved to be friendly places for discussion among those debating and advocating reform.
3/14/2013
Facing flat funding, SUNY and CUNY activists, students, and union leaders are fighting for more money.
3/14/2013
This week, members of the Association for Private Sector Colleges and Universities (APSCU) are visiting Capitol Hill, hoping to put a good face on the for-profit college industry.
3/14/2013
The Hazlewood program, a state-requirement that public higher education institutions waive qualified veterans' tuition and mandatory fees, could cost the Legislature more than $1 billion by 2018, according an estimate from the Legislative Budget Board.
3/13/2013
Changes to Sallie Mae's Smart Option Student Loans for graduate degree seekers will go into effect on April 1. From that point on, those who choose this loan option can select either variable or fixed rates with no origination or prepayment penalties. The variable rate range will extend from 2.25% to 7.5%, while the fixed rate range will run from 5.75% to 8.875%.
3/13/2013
Although higher education is absorbing about one-third of the $75 million of cuts in the proposed 2013-2014 state budget, Higher Education Policy Commission Chancellor Paul Hill said the commission decided not to make any cuts to financial aid programs for students.
3/10/2013
Two months after Salem College announced it was developing a policy on transgender students, a letter from the chairman of the trustees is being interpreted by some in the college community as an indication that no overt policy will be adopted.
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