Arizona board approves steep tuition hikes
Getting a higher education here in Arizona just got a lot more expensive, reports KPHO CBS 5 News.
Campus payroll errors can translate to big bucks … but automation can help
Collecting and entering employee payroll information is a famously complex task in higher education. College payroll calculations are even more complicated—and fraught with error—when they’re done by hand.
Fueled by protests, angry Wisconsin voters show up to fight
Union supporters and Democrats unleashed their fury over Scott Walker, the Republican governor, and his efforts to diminish collective bargaining rights at the ballot box on Tuesday, reports the New York Times.
Weathering education cuts
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett proposed cuts last month that would slash the state’s higher-education budget to $567 million from $1.2 billion, affecting more than a dozen state-run and state-supported universities, reports the Wall Street Journal.
How to lead change successfully in uncertain times
Author and motivational speaker Simon T. Bailey has some advice for how campus leaders can thrive in an era marked by rapid change and disruptive technologies: Focus on people, process, and problems.
More pupils are learning online, fueling debate on quality
Jack London was the subject in Daterrius Hamilton’s online English 3 course. In a high school classroom packed with computers, he read a brief biography of London with single-paragraph excerpts from the author’s works, reports the New York Times.
Targeted nature of email breach worries experts
Think twice next time you get an email from Chase or Citi asking you to log in to your credit card account. The bank may not have sent it, reports the Associated Press.
Will GOP scrutiny change the way professors use eMail?
Professors and researchers might shy away from using their university-issued eMail accounts to discuss thorny political issues, turning instead to personal eMail, after a University of Wisconsin professor’s electronic exchanges were made public in accordance with a request from the state’s Republican Party.
More customers exposed as big data breach grows
The names and eMails of customers of Citigroup Inc and other large U.S. companies, as well as College Board students, were exposed in a massive and growing data breach after a computer hacker penetrated online marketer Epsilon, Reuters reports.
Does your college have a gambling policy? Don’t bet on it, new site says
Higher-education officials, students, and their parents might be able to better identify the signs of gambling addiction on campus thanks to a new website that provides reams of research and advice on how to help students with a bona fide gambling problem.