Speed puts community colleges front and center
Fitzpatrick Manufacturing Co. is a high-tech job shop, crafting super-precise parts for machines used in everything from robotics to aerospace to oil exploration. Macomb Community College lies a…
Month: February 2012
Universities to pay fees for eMailing links while faculty inboxes are monitored
Sending hyperlinks via eMail could prove a pricey proposition for two Canadian universities after officials agreed to a controversial copyright policy that could also leave professors’ electronic messages…
Study abroad? Why American students head north
Carson Ross had a financial dilemma on her hands. When the New Yorker weighed her college options back in 2009, she could have picked destinations like Tufts in…
NYPD monitored students at colleges across Northeast
One autumn morning in Buffalo, N.Y., a college student named Adeela Khan logged into her email and found a message announcing an upcoming Islamic conference in Toronto, the…
Obama takes tougher stance on higher education
Access to college has been the driving force in federal higher education policy for decades. But the Obama administration is pushing a fundamental agenda shift that aggressively brings…
Youth shaping future of online TV, movies, music
Young people want their music, TV and movies now — even if it means they get these things illegally.
University of Texas moves to enforce ‘slacker’ rule
The University of Texas at Austin is one of the nation’s top research universities. But you wouldn’t know it from the school’s four-year graduation rate, the Washington Post…
Scientist: Education can solve religion-science conflicts
A perceived conflict between science and religion has led Americans to rank nearly last among industrialized countries in understanding evolution, educators told a major science conference this weekend,…
Students protest governing board’s decision to keep school president despite resume controversy
Dozens of Kean University students walked out of their classes this afternoon to protest the governing board’s decision to support the president despite finding mistakes on his resumes,…