Education protests grip Chilean capital
Students in Chile have erected burning barricades in at least 10 locations throughout Santiago, as part of a protest to demand free higher education, Aljazeera reports.
Month: October 2011
University team competition focuses on crowdsourcing
The nation's intelligence community, with the help of university researchers and regular folks around the country, is studying ways to harness and improve the wisdom of crowds. The…
7 ways universities are using Facebook as a marketing tool
Social media use by universities has become ubiquitous. When earlier this year, researchers from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth asked a representative sample of U.S. schools whether…
5 new ways colleges are reaching high school students
Each fall, the recruiting season seems to be the same process for colleges and universities: Send recruitment mailers to prospective students who signed up online or at college…
Watch: Nation’s largest zero net energy community unveiled at UC Davis
On Saturday, UC Davis held a ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the opening of West Village -- the University's new student, faculty and staff housing facility that is now…
Opinion: When higher education becomes hire education
Through the cacophony of the Occupy Wall Street crowd comes one clear message: Too many college students graduate with $50,000 in debt for student loans and no possibility…
Ed-tech group to push for more analytics use in colleges
Analytics programs that use complex data sets to identify struggling students, the best ways to use campus budgets, and improve faculty and staff efficiency are coming to U.S.…
With Goldman’s foray into higher education, a predatory pursuit of students and revenues
Education Management Corp. was already a swiftly growing player in the lucrative world of for-profit higher education, with annual revenues topping $1 billion, but it had its sights…
Community college placement falters
The U.S. community college course-placement system is a mess. That includes the many well-regarded two-year colleges in the Washington area, says Jay Mathews, columnist for the Washington Post.