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Online colleges ‘wage war’ with student aid fraudsters
Online programs at some colleges have stopped accepting student applications from states known as hotbeds for fraud rings that sign up students for courses, receive student loan payments, and disappear from the virtual classroom....
Obama unveils plan to stem rising college tuition costs
President Barack Obama is announcing a plan to shift some federal dollars away from colleges and universities that don’t control tuition costs and new competitions in higher education…
Colleges laud Google+ age restriction change, safety features
Campus technology officials said they are more likely to create an official Google+ presence after the nascent social network announced Jan. 26 that the former Google+ age requirement…
Obama to colleges: Keep costs down, or risk losing funding
In a State of the Union address that was as much a campaign speech as a call to action, President Obama challenged lawmakers to invest more money in…
Google to merge user data across more services
Google announced a plan Jan. 24 to link user data across its eMail, video, social-networking, and other services that it says will create a “beautifully simple and intuitive”…
eBook pilot could save college students a ‘huge amount of money’
The University of Wisconsin (UW) Madison campus and five other major universities announced plans this week to try buying electronic textbooks in bulk, an experiment that officials say…
State higher education spending sees big decline
State funding for higher education has declined because of a slow recovery from the recession and the end of federal stimulus money, according to a study released Monday.…
Surviving the budget crisis
Although the economy has begun to rebound, campus leaders still face serious budget shortfalls that threaten their ability to implement new technologies and deliver a world-class education to…
Expanding STEM education with virtual labs
Strong science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education is important for the nation’s competitiveness—but an uncertain economy has left some schools struggling to give students access to resources…
Campus Network Security Made Easy
From granting access to staff and students using multiple devices, to making sure that all necessary applications receive permission to run on a network, college and university IT…
Illinois higher education funding will go to pensions, not students
Illinois is increasing higher education spending by 12 percent this year, but that money won't benefit in-state students. Illinois State University reports that the additional funding will be…
Commentary: College grad rates are ‘bad data’
Dropouts. Lost. Vanished. According to the federal formula for calculating the graduation rates of colleges and universities, close to a majority of all college students are dropouts…
The most, least literate big U.S. cities
Washington, D.C., is the most literate big city in the United States, and Bakersfield, Calif., the least, in the newest annual rankings that consider factors including the population’s…
