Colo. gov wants to restore $89M for education
Colorado schools and colleges got an early Christmas gift Tuesday as state economists revealed that proposed budget cuts can be eliminated because revenues are higher than originally thought,…
Month: December 2011
College political leaders, social media prove to be dangerous combination
After a tweet and a viral video ended the campus political careers of two Texas college students, higher-education politicos have advice for their brethren: Adopt an official social…
Higher education standards: improving course evaluation
How can we start to place students at the heart of the system? The HE white paper called on universities to be more accountable to students on matters…
Opinion: Can the public Ivies be saved?
Higher education leaders have dreamed up two big, radical ideas that could potentially rescue the nation’s top public universities from the brink of fiscal oblivion, says Daniel de…
Are college students declaring majors too early?
Like many other new high school graduates, I entered college without a fully realized vision of what I would do once I left, says Adam Turay, a sophomore…
Cornell alumnus is behind $350 million gift to build science school in city
The donor whose $350 million gift will be critical in building Cornell University’s new high-tech graduate school on Roosevelt Island is Atlantic Philanthropies, whose founder, Charles F. Feeney,…
College admissions officials turn to iPad to streamline applications
What once took a week to collect, organize, and collate has been reduced to a few clicks on an Apple iPad in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s admissions…
Watch: An undergraduate education in one course?
Students at Harvard, Yale and Bard College participated in an experimental a course this fall that takes the notion of a core curriculum to its logical extreme, the…
Opinion: What James Franco NYU grade lawsuit tells us about universities
A former professor at New York University is suing the college and states the university fired him because he gave his student, actor James Franco, a "D," according…
Apple and Google independently developing wearable, reality augmenting smartphones
Some of us are quite attached to our mobile devices, much to the chagrin of anything and anyone that isn’t a smartphone screen. Apple and Google are reportedly…