It would seem that the Economics 101 story around higher education for the past few decades would go something like this: for various reasons, government has decided to increase demande for higher education massively, via increased subsidies and in particular student loans; meanwhile, supply has not kept up, because non-profit universities get paid in prestige (understood as mathematical selectivity) and therefore have an objective self-interest in not growing; the for-profit sector has been designed by regulation such that it exists to vacuum up subsidies rather than provide valuable education; and the government sector hasn’t kept up with demand.
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5/9/2013
The Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity Sponsored Ministries Board of Directors and the Silver Lake College of the Holy Family Board of Directors have appointed Dr. Chris E. Domes the 10th president of the college. Domes has been at Marymount University in Arlington, Va., since 1996, serving as vice president for student development and enrollment management since 2003.
5/9/2013
The 67-year-old, who previously acknowledged that he accepted sumptuous gifts from crooked former Dean Cecilia Chang before she committed suicide, sent an email to students and faculty declaring that he will step down effective July 31. Harrington served as president of the University for 24 years.
5/9/2013
After a number of high-profile battles with key Hawaii lawmakers in 2012 and 2013, University of Hawaii President M.R.C. Greenwood announced this week she will step down.
5/9/2013
Northeastern University–Charlotte is expanding its curriculum by adding nine new graduate degree programs, including seven master's degrees and the first two doctoral degrees approved for a university based outside of North Carolina.
5/9/2013
While schools such as Dartmouth, Vassar, Williams, Hamilton, Princeton, and Amherst actually did see a slight decline in the number of applications for the fall of 2013, other schools are not changing their acceptance rates.
5/9/2013
This is the second consecutive year that Tegrity Campus has won the award, reflecting McGraw-Hill Education's position as a leading education technology innovator as well as its proven value to educators and institutions seeking to improve learning outcomes through results-focused digital solutions.
5/9/2013
Native-built for Android devices and available on the Google Play™ app store and the Amazon Appstore for Android, the app lets users participate in live, interactive Web conference sessions by viewing whiteboard activity and presentations, communicating through chat and audio, responding to surveys, raising their hand to get the instructor's attention, joining breakout rooms and more.
5/9/2013
ECMC Foundation announced today it would fund another year of the ECMC Scholars Program. Program participants from selected high schools are eligible to receive up to $6,000 per student in postsecondary grants.
5/9/2013
The Minnesota Office of Higher Education announced today that the state's 529 college savings plan has surpassed $1 billion in assets under management. As of April 19, 2013, plan assets totaled $1,029,206,913.
5/9/2013
The high-quality educational content, as the company puts it, consists of eTextbooks and supplementary materials will be delivered via Chegg’s DRM-protected eReader. The DRM limitation will allow for the content to be offered gratis only during the duration of the course.
5/9/2013
nora systems, Inc. is proud to introduce norament® satura, the latest high-performance floor covering from nora for busy working environments, like hospitals and universities.
5/8/2013
Large numbers of students are leaving the nation's historically black colleges and universities because of a change in the federal education loan policy that created a gap in their financial aid.
5/8/2013
Public colleges that meet certain performance measures would receive more state funding under a bill approved by a House committee Wednesday. The legislation would funnel more state money to schools with higher graduation rates and programs focused on the state's workforce needs.
5/8/2013
In a vote that some lawmakers hailed as a first step toward curbing the rising costs of college, Minnesota's House passed an omnibus bill that would freeze tuition for two years at both of the state’s public higher education systems.
