The rise of QR codes in higher education
Have you ever found yourself wanting to write down a phone number or website but without a pen or pencil? If you have not, you’re among the lucky…
Month: October 2011
Digital Signage Expo debuts “Digital Signage in a Connected World”
Digital Signage Expo (DSE), an international tradeshow and conference dedicated to digital signage, interactive technologies, and digital Out-of-Home Networks (DOOH), will present new educational opportunities for the first…
Opinion: Let’s be up-front about merit aid
You may have noticed that some colleges seem to be marketing their cost of attendance in a variety of new ways. Seton Hall University in New Jersey recently…
Private university in North Korea offers lessons in science and world peace
In communist North Korea—tightly sealed off from the Internet and foreign news—a fledgling private university is offering hand-picked students a rare window to the outside world, the Washington…
Jerry Brown vetoes affirmative action-like bill
On Saturday, Governor Jerry Brown vetoed SB 185, an affirmative action-like bill that would have allowed public universities to consider factors including race, gender and ethnicity in the…
California Dream Act passes
On Saturday, Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 131, the second bill of the two-part California Dream Act, allowing undocumented immigrant students to apply for state-funded financial aid for…
Prominent Carnegie Mellon donor dies
William S. Dietrich II, a longtime steel executive who pledged gifts to the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University last month totaling $390 million, has died. He…
Mass. schools team up for supercomputer center
At a gritty industrial site occupied a century ago by a textile mill, five universities are collaborating to install supercomputers that will recreate the start of the universe…
Facebook: The new college help desk?
University of South Florida students can still scour the school’s website, make a phone call, or venture over to the campus’s help desk to answer pressing technology questions.…
Steve Jobs’ millennial fan club is devoted to Apple, but why?
When college students and 20-somethings talk about their childhoods, Apple products are often the mile-markers. It’s not just because many millennials are dedicated consumers. It’s partly because Apple…