Latest posts by Laura Ascione (see all)
- Where are microcredentials today–and where are they going? - April 22, 2024
- First-generation students are more likely to seriously consider leaving college - April 17, 2024
- How higher ed can meet workforce needs - April 15, 2024
$5M seed portfolio will address higher education challenges
University Ventures, an investment firm focused solely on higher education, announced today an allocation to a $5 million seed portfolio to support early-stage education technologies that address existing…
Retention, online solutions remain top HED concerns
Student retention and increasing online offerings are among higher education officials' top concerns, according to results from a new survey from the Center for Digital Education and Akamai…
Are students priced out of college?
Student body presidents participating in a survey said they feel high college costs limit career opportunity, yet student leaders are vastly underutilized as stakeholders on and off campus.…
68 institutions deploy entire ERP in the cloud
Jenzabar, Inc., a provider of software, strategies, and services for higher education, announced that 68 higher education institutions have deployed their entire Jenzabar enterprise resource planning system (ERP)…
1:5 students are “high thrivers” in U.S. colleges
A new indicator designed to measure consumer confidence across the nation’s 4-year colleges reveals that two in 10 college students are "high thrivers." The College Optimizer Index (COI)…
Training the next generation of cloud developers
IBM is introducing a new commitment to enable the next generation of developers with the Academic Initiative for Cloud, aimed to mentor and energize them to innovate using…