76 percent of colleges struggle to meet bandwidth demands
At the start of the semester, students haul more than books, clothes and furniture to campus. They bring a slew of bandwidth-sucking devices with them, Mashable reports.
Month: August 2012
Tech experts, educators see massive online learning shift by 2020
Higher education’s economics are unsustainable and vulnerable to technologies that could make college campuses the hub of the privileged few, according to a vast collection of opinions from…
The biggest problem with San Francisco’s largest university
The accreditation commission that has threatened to sanction City College of San Francisco has cited the fact that 92 percent of the college's spending goes to salaries and…
Jumping off the college track
Noor Siddiqui doesn’t want to go to college yet. She seems the very model of a college-bound student. The Clifton resident graduated from Robinson Secondary School in June…
Anatomy of a campus construction project
The days of bond-funded campus buildings and two-dimensional architectural drawings are drawing to a close at many public universities. The money, for now, is available through public-private partnerships,…
Prof.’s email reveals shooting plot
A California university professor who was arrested on arson charges wrote in an email that he was thinking of getting a dozen machine guns and shooting at least…
Colleges freeze, reduce tuition as public balks at further price hikes
As an undergraduate at the University of California–Irvine, Christopher Campbell was almost forced to drop out by repeated double-digit increases in tuition—some in the middle of the academic…
Samsung vies for spotlight ahead of iPhone launch
Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest mobile-phone maker, said Friday it plans to show a new mobile device in late August, trying to stay in the consumer spotlight…
Forbes Magazine ranks the best colleges in America
College is outrageously expensive. Four years at an elite, private school like the University of Chicago (#4) or Stanford (#3) costs more than a quarter of a million…
Education jargon: What ‘no excuses’ and other terms really mean
Way back when I was a college student, one of my professors warned the class to avoid using jargon in our papers, says Joanne Yatvin, a veteran public…