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Section: Academics
Academics
College Ranks One of Best for Veterans
Military Times has announced its Best for Vets: Colleges 2017 rankings. The eighth annual rankings factor in the results of Military Times’ comprehensive school-by-school survey of veteran and military student offerings and rates of academic achievement. Northwest Nazarene University was ranked #4 in the U.S. for private universities and #19 for four-year public/private universities and […]
November 10, 2016
Academics
“Navigator” Helps Other Veterans in College
MOSES LAKE, Wash. —When George Turner left the Air Force, he found himself missing “meaningful work.” As the new Vet Corps navigator at Big Bend Community College, where Turner is studying computer science, he finds himself again doing something important — helping former members of the military make their way into and through college. “It’s […]
November 8, 2016
Academics
10 Colleges Where Tuition Is Free
You might think there’s no escaping the high—and still rising—cost of college. But at some schools, the cost of tuition rings up as zilch, zero, nada. These ten colleges across the country offer free tuition. At many of the schools, students work a set number of hours in a student work program or, in the […]
November 8, 2016
Academics
Survey: What Issues in Higher Education Are Most Pressing?
The Chronicle of Higher Education surveyed more than 250 college and university stakeholders to find out their takes on the most pressing issues facing higher education today and into the future. Several respondents indicated the rise of diversity in higher education access as a major factor, with affordability, government influence and technological development as similarly […]
November 8, 2016
Academics
Hiram College to Offer Three-Year Degree
HIRAM, Ohio – Hiram College students will be able to graduate in three years and save money under a new program that includes summer courses. The 3-year option will be offered, beginning in fall 2017, in 19 academic programs at the private liberal arts college in Portage County. “We are responding to the public’s call […]
November 4, 2016
Academics
Military Academies Aren’t What They Used to Be
When Zainab Salami’s parents sent her from a public school in Texas to the Randolph-Macon Academy, a 124-year-old military school in western Virginia, her only frame of reference was a Disney Channel movie. “I thought it would be like Cadet Kelly,” she said. In the 2002 film, the main character, a free-spirited artist type played […]
November 4, 2016
Academics
“Veteran-Friendly” College Honored
CLINTON TOWNSHIP — For the second straight year, Baker College has been recognized for its commitment to veterans, service members and their dependents. The education institution was recently honored with a gold ranking for the second year in a row by the Michigan Veteran Affairs Agency’s Veteran-Friendly School Program. In its second year, the program […]
November 1, 2016
Academics
Center for Online Education Offers Perspective
After years of experience guiding students toward success in online education, OnlineColleges.net has relaunched as the Center for Online Education (COE). The new name formally establishes COE’s transition into a holistic resource for online college students. Online education instructor and expert Melissa Venable, PhD will lead the team of subject matter experts behind the COE […]
October 28, 2016
Academics
Could “Finish in Four” Initiative Be Harmful?
There is an internal struggle between colleges making sure that graduates are not being passed through to graduation and the notion that many learners have financial or academic capacity to handle a 15-hour course load. While it is the traditional path to completion in four years, it does not account for new models of learning […]
October 28, 2016
Academics
How Artificial Intelligence Could Shape Higher Education
Artificial intelligence will be able to conduct much of the scientific and research-based work of the future, with the ability to run or to predict millions of trials based upon billions of variables and data points. But what robots and computer programs will not be able to do is identify key areas of human suffering […]
October 28, 2016
Academics
Higher Ed Is Being Upended By Dwindling Funding
In a panel during the annual meeting of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities Monday, college leaders from around the country agreed: the biggest challenge facing public higher education today is the dwindling state support for the enterprise. Beyond that, however, finding ways to reassert the value of the degrees they offer was the […]
October 28, 2016
Academics
Fight Over LGBT Bias Could Stall Defense Bill
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are insisting that negotiators drafting a final defense policy bill leave out a provision that would allow federal contractors to discriminate against workers on the basis of sexual or gender orientation, an issue that could become a major political fight in the post-election “lame-duck” session. “Our government should have no part […]
October 27, 2016
Academics
College Prices Set Record Highs in 2016
Tuition has quintupled since 1990—rising faster than inflation, incomes, and financial aid, new College Board study finds. The cost of attending four-year colleges hit another record high in 2016, as boosts in tuition, room, and board yet again outpaced overall inflation as well as increases in financial aid. The total published or “sticker” price for […]
October 27, 2016
Academics
Resources Are Available for Transition
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS — Advocates from various Army programs, here, recognize the importance of supporting our transitioning Soldiers during one of the biggest transitions of their lives – separating from the military. “You have served our country, now it’s our turn to help you,” was the message from one career advocate to a recent veteran who […]
October 25, 2016
Academics
“War Literature” Course Helps Veterans’ Transition
“It says, ‘War makes you dead.’ So, that I found very interesting because it’s not, and I wasn’t thinking the actually dead. I was thinking about coming home mentally dead. Dead to the world,” said Peter James Biddiscombe, a specialist at the U.S. Army Reserves. Biddiscombe is a nursing major at Bergen Community College but […]
October 25, 2016
Academics
Education Roadmap: The First Step in a Mobile Military Education
Did you join the military to get an education? Many recruits who join the military list education as the main reason they joined. Yet, before they know it, civilian life is upon them, and they still don’t have a degree. It is challenging to make the choice to shift the status quo of your everyday […]
October 25, 2016
Academics
It’s the Price, Not the Cost, That Goes Up
This election season Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders aimed to galvanize millennial voters by raising the issue of college debt. In a new book, Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream, sociologist Sara Goldrick-Rab lays out why college has grown far too expensive, and why […]
October 21, 2016
Academics
Clinton and Trump’s Plans Could Affect Private Colleges
This year’s presidential campaign between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump has been characterized more by personality than policy. Among the policy discussions, higher education has been less prominent than a handful of other topics, including immigration, national security and trade. However lesser-known the proposals, their potential impact on private colleges could […]
October 21, 2016
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