North Dakota’s colleges and universities can now enjoy the record budget in the state. The state approved a new system to fund campuses based on credits that students successfully complete, rather than on the number of students enrolled.
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5/5/2013
The Boston Marathon bombing has yielded its first change in US security policy, prompted by revelations that a Kazakh college student, a friend of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was allowed to reenter the country even though his student visa had been revoked 16 days earlier because of poor grades.
5/5/2013
In her role as web manager and assistant director of institutional marketing at Elms College Karolina Kilfeather relies on student workers to help carry the department’s workload. She has found that while they may make valuable contributions, students often pose special management challenges.
5/5/2013
MOOCs have been hailed as a revolution in higher education but philosophers at San Jose State University believe the companies making MOOCs are higher education’s version of Walmart—powerful, irrepressible, and threatening to drive professors at smaller universities out of business.
5/5/2013
The problem is not in the immediate domain of our schools, economic developers or marketers. The problem of brain drain is a good bit simpler than that. It is in our communities.
5/5/2013
The Texas House approved a batch of bills Saturday to further soften gun laws that were already among the country's most firearms-friendly, allowing college students to carry handguns in class.
5/5/2013
The president of the University of Colorado says the school has many collaborative programs with community colleges, yet he joins many higher education colleagues in opposing a plan to expand community colleges' scope with the ability to offer four-year degrees.
5/5/2013
Going to college right after high school is a longstanding tradition in this country. However, the road toward those ivy towers of academia is considerably harder to travel for today’s students. The competition is so fierce that what was good enough even a dozen years ago is not any longer.
5/5/2013
University of Colorado Regent Jim Geddes believes "conservative scholars just aren't welcome" on the Boulder campus and told fellow board members last week that "we need to take an active approach and diversify our faculty."
5/3/2013
The Council of Independent Colleges is leading a public information campaign for the liberal arts and liberal arts colleges. The organization hopes to persuade the public that the liberal arts are fundamental to the education of all Americans and that these subjects will help young people achieve their legitimate aspirations to stimulating careers, good salaries, personal fulfillment, and a sense of contributing to the common good.
5/3/2013
Many institutions with a single, traditional brick-and-mortar campus are diversifying their methods for delivering programs by going online, developing hybrid courses, and even establishing centers at locations off-campus. Alan Walker, former president of Upper Iowa University, discusses the challenges and cost benefits of strategic diversification.
5/3/2013
As a readily accessible labor pool, student workers have long been an integral part of most institutions’ human resource planning, as well as a basic component of financial aid work-study programs. At Oakton Community College (Ill.) orientation sessions, new student employees get a crash course in business etiquette.
5/3/2013
Sharing information on the go is second nature to today’s college student. That reality is pushing higher ed leaders to leverage that connectivity to build a more interactive learning environment. In fall 2012, Dodge City Community College (Kan.) began requiring every student to have an iPad. The idea grew from conversations about how to boost retention. And every suggested strategy seemed to boil down to engagement and how to keep students interested.
5/3/2013
With the disruptive force and explosive growth of MOOCs, online courses could become more like televised sports and applied research, with a serious emphasis on who owns—and who should profit from—the content. Here are four discussion-opening questions about intellectual property rights today.
5/3/2013
High-performance computing can quickly answer the big questions that jam up desktop PCs. With HPC resources, some problems can be solved that could never be worked out before, and scientists are able to ask questions they never would have imagined. High-performance computing does, however, come at a high cost.
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