With the approval of the university's new competency-based model, students will have the opportunity to earn a two-year degree for about $5,000. Instead of tallying their classroom instruction time, the university will assess the students' knowledge and skills.
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4/28/2013
As an adjunct instructor, not a tenure-track professor, the writer has zero “skin in the game” regarding benefits and pensions because she has none. No health care, no pension, zero job security — none of the benefits Governor Christie assumes are a given for all teachers.
4/28/2013
Most Division I athletes stay within NCAA eligibility standards, but they do so with significant university resources devoted specifically to their education. UNC, for example, uses 13 full-time and 63 part-time employees in its academic support program for student-athletes.
4/28/2013
TIAA-CREF unveiled a new service, Plan Outcome Assessment, that will analyze defined-contribution retirement plans and create new metrics to help plan sponsors evaluate overall plan performance and measure and improve employee retirement readiness.
4/28/2013
Dallas County Community College District has deployed SunView ChangeGear 5.0 to streamline its IT Change Management processes.
4/28/2013
Germanna Community College has launched an online incident reporting platform called TIPS from Awareity, making it easy for students, faculty, staff and others on campus to confidentially report concerning behaviors or incidents.
4/28/2013
CampusTours has officially released AnyMap 3.0, the latest version of CampusTours’ popular AnyMap interactive map software platform.
4/25/2013
Delta Gamma said on its website that it has accepted the resignation of the University of Maryland college junior, whose passionate email calling out her “AWKWARD” and “BORING” sisters for their lackluster social interactions with Sigma Nu Fraternity has been widely circulated and parodied.
4/25/2013
College students will see an increase in state grant awards next year mostly because fewer students will be applying for them. The increase in aid that does not have to be repaid should help students reduce the amount they need to borrow to earn that college degree.
4/25/2013
The Texas Senate has voted to authorize $2.4 billion in capital funding, known as tuition revenue bonds, in a bill that would still put dozens of construction projects within reach of universities across the state — if the institutions pitch in some money.
4/25/2013
Officials for the new playoff structure, whose name was finalized Tuesday, said their website was hacked less than 24 hours after revealing four potential logos for an online vote.
4/25/2013
Applicants whose interests lead toward engineering — specifically, naval architecture and marine engineering — have a free alternative to Cooper Union’s engineering school that is just a few stops away on the Long Island Rail Road.
4/25/2013
The facility will be the campus hub for fitness training, intramural sports and outdoor recreation. It will include a café and numerous study nooks, as well as three pools, five sport courts, 15,000 square feet of cardiovascular and weightlifting space, four fitness studios, a wellness studio and climbing walls.
4/25/2013
A bill banning smoking on all public university property in Illinois, including at outdoor locations such as tailgate parties, construction sites and farm fields, fell five votes short of passage Wednesday.
4/25/2013
The cost of higher education appears to be a growing concern for lawmakers in Minnesota, where student debt levels are among the nation’s highest.
