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Predictive analytics driving university practices
As campuses seek to target prospective students and spend precious funds most effectively, more administrators are learning about predictive analytics—statistical techniques that gather data and help campus leaders make predictions…
Report: Technology not the answer to bolstering community college access
More than 400,000 Americans were turned away from community colleges last year not because schools couldn’t keep up with the demand for online courses, but because deep state and federal…
Recruitment ads by for-profit colleges targeted
Where do for-profit colleges get the money they spend on all those highway billboards and television and radio ads?…
Campus IT’s No. 1 worry: Protecting student, faculty data
Eight in 10 colleges and universities allow students to access the school network with any mobile device they bring to campus, but less than half have an official policy for…
College campuses face digital signage’s hidden costs
The cost of content for digital signage has been known to elicit a generous helping of expletives from campus technologists who, before making their signage purchases, didn’t peek at the…
Professor starts eText company to electrify textbook field
M. Ryan Haley, a University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh economics professor, has started a company he hopes will undercut the academic textbook publishing industry and help college students save a lot of…
Skepticism of Facebook Student Groups grows on college campuses
To understand why Facebook’s unveiling of Student Groups didn’t send higher education technologists into a tizzy, it might be helpful to examine the case of Oberlin College in Ohio, where…
Senator seeks a ‘Carfax for college education’ to better inform students
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden is pushing fellow lawmakers to pass legislation that would create the nation's first comprehensive online database for prospective college students who aren't quite sure which campus…
Facebook returns to its roots with Groups for Schools
Facebook has a peace offering for every college student who resents the social media giant for opening the site to their parents: new pages known as Student Groups that will…
Report: Baylor exceeds limits on calls, texts
Less than a week after its women's basketball team won the national championship, Baylor said April 9 it has been involved in a three-year investigation with the NCAA into what…