Funding
As the current higher-education funding climate proves, money matters—and in this section you’ll get the latest information on new funding opportunities, strategies for saving money at your own institutions, and more.
New initiative to study MOOCs with Gates Foundation grants
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent millions of dollars helping to bolster non-profit massive open online course (MOOC) providers like Khan Academy and edX. Now, they’re…
Instructure raises $30M in final round of funding before going public
Instructure, developer of the popular learning management system Canvas, announced Wednesday that it raised $30 million in what may be the company’s last round of funding before going…
Free textbook developer could save students $750M over five years
OpenStax College, a publisher based at Rice University, announced last week that the nonprofit would more than double the number of free downloadable textbooks over the next two…
University opens ‘living lab’ of energy efficiency
Building 661 at the Navy Yard was never a thing of beauty. Built in 1942, during the first months of U.S. involvement in World War II, the brick-and-concrete…
Survey: Colleges’ social media use narrows
Social media sites outside the big four -- Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube -- had a tough time in higher education last year.…
VCU considers charging for each credit hour
Virginia Commonwealth University is considering “market-based tuition pricing” for next year that would charge for each credit hour rather than a set rate for a full-time student, The…
Starbucks, Wal-Mart offering classes – for college credit
Arianna Suarez's first job after emigrating from Cuba as a teenager was as a cashier at a Walmart in Hialeah, Fla. Thanks in part to college-level classes that…
Report: $3 billion federal STEM program needs better oversight
Very few of the federal government’s 209 programs designed to increase knowledge of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) receive oversight from a specific agency, while many STEM…
University establishes flipped learning training center for faculty
San Jose State University, known as the public university serving Silicon Valley, will be home to a program that will train faculty members from across California in how…
How the location of colleges hurts the economy
One problem that stems from the relatively unchanged nature of higher education is its geography. The country looks very different from the way it did 100 years ago,…
How universities can leverage learning analytics
Higher education is a big business, and colleges and universities need reliable data to inform decisions that impact thousands of students and faculty each day. Learning analytics tools…