Month: October 2015
White House honors Fresno State Latino program
Fresno State’s Mini-Corps Program, which recruits Latino teachers and helps migrant students, is one of five programs at four California State University campuses recognized by the White House…
Part 2: Keeping the human touch in admissions–at scale
While some colleges struggle to attract enough students to keep their doors open, others have been inundated by record numbers of applications. Today, admissions offices must work harder…
Keeping the human touch in admissions–at scale
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…." Dickens may have been writing about the French Revolution, but he could just as easily have…
Workday delivers student admissions
Workday, Inc., a provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, has launched Workday Student Admissions, a new application that helps higher education institutions meet targeted…
Part 1: Keeping the human touch in admissions–at scale
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…." Dickens may have been writing about the French Revolution, but he could just as easily have…
Poll reveals emerging adults’ views on education
Eighty-six percent of adults in a recent survey said they believe it is more important than ever to get education or training past high school in order to…
CMU moves to real-time reporting, analysis
Excel4apps, a provider of Excel-based inquiry and reporting software for use with SAP and Oracle, announced that Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) will implement two of its Wands for…
Electronic textbooks save Indiana students $8M
Indiana University students have saved $8 million over the last three years by opting into a digital learning program that uses electronic textbooks, school officials said. "Students have…
Partnership will focus on embodied learning scenarios
SMALLab Learning is collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) Entertainment Technology Center on innovative projects with local Pittsburgh schools. Over the course of the coming year, CMU students…