Higher Education
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The issue of Tuition in Higher Ed
College Rankings - Newsweek and The Daily Beast
To find the most devoted sisters, we factored in social-media prominence, philanthropic giving, and more. There are 26 organizations in the National Panhellenic Conference, with reputations and memberships that vary by campus.The regional accrediting agency that oversees Penn State has placed the university on warning, the agency and the school disclosed Monday. The Middle States Commission on Higher Education said it took the action based on the information in former FBI director Louis Freeh 's report on the university's handling of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky 's sexual abuse of children and the consent decree into which the university entered with the NCAA .
Penn State gets warning from accrediting agency
Growing up, I was fortunate to have teachers who encouraged their students to explore areas of learning they were curious about.
Education 2.0
The first thing I did today was read the first piece in the brand new edition of The New Inquiry.
oh, boy
03/05/12 post. Another discussion of the issues in higher ed. Makes some anti-OWS statements at the start. by Mar 6
The studies address one of the most intractable problems of higher education: the dead end of remedial education.
Colleges Err in Placing Many on Remedial Track, Studies Find
How The Culture War Undermines American Prosperity
I've observed before that to an extent you can think of the economic policy debate in the United States as a war between college educated businessmen and the folks they went to school with who didn't go into the business world.
It's interesting to learn that the U.S.
Harvard and Princeton Clearly Discriminate Against Asian Applicants; the Question Is Whether It's Illegal
How Higher Education Is Going Digital [INFOGRAPHIC]
People are talking about digital tech's opportunity to improve the classroom.
What College Rankings Really Tell Us
Last summer, the editors of Car and Driver conducted a comparison test of three sports cars, the Lotus Evora, the Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport, and the Porsche Cayman S. The cars were taken on an extended run through mountain passes in Southern California, and from there to a race track north of Los Angeles, for precise measurements of performance and handling. The results of the road tests were then tabulated according to a twenty-one-variable, two-hundred-and-thirty-five-point rating system, based on four categories: vehicle (driver comfort, styling, fit and finish, etc.); power train (transmission, engine, and fuel economy); chassis (steering, brakes, ride, and handling); and “fun to drive.”“The check is in the mail. I gave at the office.
Steve Cohen on the Three Biggest College Admissions Lies
There’s no doubt that the ongoing crisis of governance in California and resulting disinvestment in the University of California system is deplorable. But this recent Washington Post dispatch from UC-Berkeley doesn’t exactly paint a picture of a campus in deep crisis: Star faculty take mandatory furloughs. Classes grow perceptibly larger each year.
California’s Higher Education Disaster
In the next seven years, more than a million jobs will open up that require specialized technology skills, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But there won't be enough qualified college graduates to fill them. Are we doing enough to get kids interested in math and science?
How Do We Get More Students Interested in Math, Science & Tech Careers? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Schumpeter: University challenge
BARACK OBAMA invited a puzzling group of people into the White House on December 5th: university presidents. What should one make of these strange creatures? Are they chief executives or labour leaders? Heads of pre-industrial guilds or champions of one of America's most successful industries?"American professors of literature crank out 70,000 scholarly publications a year, compared with 13,757 in 1959. Most of these simply moulder: Mark Bauerlein of Emory University points out that, of the 16 research papers produced in 2004 by the University of Vermont’s literature department, a fairly representative institution, 11 have since received between zero and two citations. The time wasted writing articles that will never be read cannot be spent teaching. In “Academically Adrift” Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa argue that over a third of America’s students show no improvement in critical thinking or analytical reasoning after four years in college." by Dec 13
Silicon Valley's talent wars are going younger. Bay Area tech companies, already in a fierce fight for full-time hires, are now also battling to woo summer interns. Technology giants like Google Inc. have been expanding their summer-intern programs, while smaller tech companies are ramping up theirs in response—sometimes even luring candidates away from college.