Student loan debt expected to hit $1 trillion
The total amount of student loan debt is expected to hit one trillion dollars before the end of this year, according to financial analysts, marking yet another milestone…
Month: October 2011
Feds to hear Va Tech appeal in Dec.
The U.S. Department of Education has scheduled a December hearing to take up Virginia Tech's appeal of fines it received for failing to notify campus sooner during a…
Yale library acquires ‘lost’ Eugene O’Neill script
A play by Eugene O'Neill that was feared to be lost has been acquired by a library at Yale University after surfacing in a researcher's archives, providing insight…
California spends billions on community college students who drop out
California and other states are spending billions of tax dollars on community college students who drop out before completing their studies, according to a report released Thursday, the…
Harrison ushers in online education revolution
While recent headlines have criticized the for-profit sector of higher education, an objective examination reveals they are in many ways more responsive than nonprofit sector institutions to the…
Report: Mobile app use exploding on campus
Colleges and universities have made significant gains in deploying mobile applications over the past year, according to the 2011 Campus Computing Survey, the largest continuing study of higher-education…
Colleges get mixed reviews when using Twitter for customer service
At 10:58 a.m. on October 3, Lindenwood University junior Katherine Anderson notified the university's official Twitter handle about a car crash on campus, and said a professor almost…
Teaching in the world’s most isolated classroom
Last summer, I spent a month teaching academic English skills to North Korean university students at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, the country’s first privately funded…
Does Texas higher education have a morale problem?
When Chancellor Bruce Leslie implemented a new progressive discipline procedure for tenured faculty at San Antonio’s Alamo Colleges in August, it was not well received, reports the Texas…
Ark. college students anxious after body found
In a university classroom, students studying Spanish watched a film about the horrific murders of young women in Mexico. As the credits rolled, there was a knock at…