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.
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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.
5/3/2013
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.
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.
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