Researchers: Self-selecting college roommates can improve grades
Sifting through Facebook data for a roommate who likes the same music, espouses the same politics, and hails from a similar background isn’t just for picky incoming college…
Month: July 2012
City Colleges of Chicago Website Gets Makeover to Support Students on Path to a Career
City Colleges of Chicago Website Gets Makeover to Support Students on Path to a Career Focus group-driven changes to CareerFinder ... Read more
Community College of Rhode Island to Sustain Academic Standard with New Technology
Higher Education Institution Selects Turning Technologies as Campus-Wide Clicker Provider Youngstown, OH – Turning Technologies, the global leader in the ... Read more
California Institute of Technology Selects Oracle’s StorageTek Tape Storage to Archive and Access Petabytes of Scientific Research Data
California Institute of Technology Selects Oracle’s StorageTek Tape Storage to Archive and Access Petabytes of Scientific Research Data Oracle’s StorageTek ... Read more
Education Innovator Ted Mitchell Joins Parchment Board of Directors
Education Innovator Ted Mitchell Joins Parchment Board of Directors Parchment adds Mitchell, president and CEO of NewSchools Venture Fund, to ... Read more
States with the highest college completion rates
According to new U.S. Census Bureau data, the number of 25-to 34-year-olds who have college degrees around the nation has gradually increased from 2009 to 2011, the Huffington…
Report: For-profit colleges pay executives based on profit, not student success
Top executives at major for-profit colleges take in millions of dollars in annual compensation -- primarily from taxpayer subsidies -– yet most of their pay is unrelated to…
QAMA: The only calculator a student should ever use
Long, long ago, before I discovered the joys of public school administration, before I fled from said administrative post for the easy life of private industry, before I…
Report blasts shortcomings of for-profit colleges
For-profit colleges are failing their students and saddling taxpayers with an enormous bill, a two-year investigation by the Senate education committee's Democratic staff concluded.
Viewpoint: Thinking outside the book
eTextbooks already have triggered what is shaping up to be a seismic upheaval in the way we think about academic course material. Digital materials offer highly mobile, on-demand…