The average overall loan debt for bachelor’s degree recipients is fairly manageable (about $26,500 for the class of 2011, according to The Institute for College Access and Success). Still, students and families are shouldering a greater portion of the cost of college through loans than they ever have before. As student loan debt levels and default rates in the United States continue to climb, consumers remain concerned about the accessibility and affordability of higher education.
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5/3/2013
With close to 5,000 potential Michigan State University gift allocations, many donors were already completing a transaction and then going right back in and shopping again. So imagine what MSU could gain by offering donors a single shopping cart through which they could make multiple donations.
5/2/2013
They help create dynamic learning environments that encourage class discussion and participation across all education settings ranging from K-12 to higher education institutions and corporate training environments.
5/2/2013
Chief®, an industry leader in mounts, racks and interactive solutions, is now shipping the Chief Integrated Interactive System, an all-in-one design that brings together Chief mounts and Da-Lite® screen technology to create a unified solution for the Epson® BrightLink® Pro 1410Wi.
5/2/2013
Introducing iPads and other tablets into the classroom definitely ignited a revolutionary tech movement in higher education, but e-books and interactive lesson plans are only the beginning.
5/2/2013
The House approved legislation Wednesday that requires comparative reports of administrative pay and staffing ratios to be done every two years. The 125-19 vote sends the bill to the Senate.
5/2/2013
In 2010, the Office of Information Technology had plans to purchase portable data centers to increase energy efficiency, which would have cost up to $7 million.
5/2/2013
The death of Binland Lee, a senior studying marine biology, came less than two weeks after a bomb at the Boston Marathon killed 23-year-old Lu Lingzi, a graduate student studying statistics at the school. In all, an "unprecedented" 11 BU undergraduate and graduate students have died in the past 13 months, said BU spokesman Colin Riley.
5/2/2013
The demolitions make way for an arts campus and new buildings and amenities along University Place and Alexander Street, just south of McCarter Theatre. The project is expected to be completed by 2017.
5/2/2013
Women aren't setting the agenda and designing products and services that are shaping our lives. They're getting only about 18 percent of the bachelor's degrees in computer science, and in the workplace their numbers aren't much higher.
5/2/2013
Student groups at more than 60 college and universities hosted events to raise awareness and push for fossil fuel divestment as part of 350.org’s #FossilFreedom Day of Action.
5/2/2013
The figure represents the cost difference between commercial textbooks, which can cost hundreds of dollars apiece, and free digital books written by Washington faculty members that cover the same subjects.
5/2/2013
For Udacity’s Sebastian Thrun, he says his experience as a teacher has been a blessing and a curse when it comes to upending the world of higher education.
5/2/2013
With a coming world-wide jobs war, it is imperative that higher education and employers get this collaboration right. If they don’t, we run the risk of destroying one of the things America is best known for -- our higher education system.
5/2/2013
Outgoing Youngstown State University President Cynthia E. Anderson wants people to remember her as a “good and decent person whose career passion was to serve students in any way she was capable.”
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