Search | The EDU Ledger

Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! We’ve moved from Diverse.

Welcome to The EDU Ledger! We’ve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

Section: Military

The Failing U. Report

Failing U analyzes and grades each state’s laws, regulations, and accountability measures related to the private, for-profit postsecondary institutions in that state. The report does not analyze efforts by states’ attorneys general who seek to protect their residents through enforcement efforts and litigation. While laudable, such actions are needed in significant part because state oversight […]

January 25, 2018

Report Finds Massachusetts Failing to Protect Students

Almost the entire country comes up short on overseeing and regulating private for-profit colleges, according to a new report that dinged Massachusetts for not requiring tuition refunds in the event of a school closure and not mandating that performance measures be disclosed to students. Massachusetts is among 43 states that received a failing grade in […]

January 25, 2018

Bill Would Offer Scholarships for Older Students

SANTA FE, N.M. — About 26,000 New Mexico college students get tuition help through the legislative lottery scholarship every year, but only those who started college shortly after high school are eligible. Now a state lawmaker is pitching a program that could help older and other nontraditional students. Sen. Bill Tallman, D-Albuquerque, has introduced the […]

January 25, 2018

Legislature_StoryTease-2

Survey: Financial Issues Keep Many Adults from Pursuing Education

Vermont Business Magazine A new survey from Champlain College Online (link is external) says that while most adults see the value in higher education to prepare them for advancement in the workplace, ongoing concerns over incurring student debt and affordability are the major barriers to returning to school to complete a certificate, associate degree or […]

January 25, 2018

In Evolving World of Microcredentials, Needs Differ

Many colleges these days are experimenting with short-form online degrees to try to reach new audiences and offer new options, often at a lower cost. And new upstart providers are also getting into the mix, including coding bootcamps and startups like Udacity, which offers unaccredited nanodegrees. These trends raise a host of questions about the […]

January 25, 2018

modern-student1-1024×683

DeVos May Reverse Ruling on For-Profits

DEVOS MAY REVERSE OBAMA RULING ON FOR-PROFIT COLLEGE CONVERSIONS: The Trump administration is considering undoing a landmark ruling by the Obama-era Education Department regarding colleges that seek to convert from for-profit schools into nonprofit institutions. The Center for Excellence in Higher Education, which is based in Utah and owns a chain of career colleges, is […]

January 25, 2018

landscape-1486520916-betsy-devos

Pay for College

The last part of this three-part series hits on the outlying areas of where financial assistance may come from for those attending college. We have successfully touched base on financial aid, scholarships and now there are a few programs which straddle both financial assistance and scholarship lines. The first item: the GI Bill, which is […]

January 23, 2018

Program Stresses Education’s Value to Soldiers

WIESBADEN, Germany — U.S. Army Signal Soldiers gathered for a series of classes and presentations about higher education opportunities, the promotion system and other personnel readiness issues during the quarterly Soldier Development Program Jan. 18, 2018 in Wiesbaden. The classes were organized by the 102nd Strategic Signal Battalion, 2nd Theater Signal Brigade, and included participants […]

January 23, 2018

Tulane Professor Gets $3.7 M Military Grant

NEW ORLEANS — A Tulane University professor is getting a $3.7 million, three-year military grant to help develop computing technology. The university announced earlier this month that professor Michael Mislove, chair of Tulane’s computer science department, received the grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The research grant is aimed at creating […]

January 23, 2018

Same-Sex Army Couple Wed at West Point

WEST POINT, N.Y. — Two Army captains who met at West Point returned there to be married, in what is believed to be the first same-sex marriage of active-duty personnel at the storied New York military academy. The New York Times reported Captains Daniel Hall, 30, and Vincent Franchino, 26, both Apache helicopter pilots stationed […]

January 23, 2018

Sal Khan: Free, Online Education for the World

Sal Khan has interesting ideas about what constitutes riveting dinner conversation. At the moment, he’s partial to “mind-blowing” similarities between Greek, Latin, Germanic languages and ancient Sanskrit as well as the fact that Iran and Ireland are the only countries with names that mean “land of the Aryans.” “That’s still my favorite thing to share […]

January 23, 2018

Augusta U. Enters Partnership with Fort Gordon

Gretchen Caughman was all smiles Friday as she was handed a pen and directed to sign a stack of papers inside a classroom at the Command Support Center at Fort Gordon. The signing for the executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at Augusta University represented the beginning of a new partnership with the […]

January 23, 2018

5579791_web1_MemorandumsofUnderstanding2

3 Things Military Families Endure in a Shutdown

At midnight EST Friday, January 19, 2018, the government shut down. Yep, ultimately put out the “closed for business” sign. But what you may not know is military families, and many federal employees, are affected in ways which the average person does not learn on the news. Military personnel still work but do not get […]

January 23, 2018

Universities Offering Degrees With a Guarantee

Students at the 27 public colleges of applied technology in the US state of Tennessee earn qualifications in such complex fields as computer-aided design, information technology, advanced manufacturing, and aviation maintenance. From this autumn, they and their employers will get something else, too: a warranty. If graduates fail state or national licensing exams in their […]

January 23, 2018

giant-baseball-glove

Innovation and Transformation

Here’s a puzzle: Americans love their own colleges and universities and yet are suspicious of and even disdainful of colleges and universities in general. Why is that? Polls show that the great majority of Americans who graduated from college are grateful they went to that college, felt they got their money’s worth, and would go […]

January 19, 2018

Lawmakers Weigh Cuts to Tuition Waivers

LARAMIE — A state program providing free tuition to veterans and their families could be reduced during the Wyoming Legislature’s upcoming budget session beginning Feb. 12. The Legislature’s Joint Appropriations Committee further considered a proposed bill that would amend the program during a callback meeting with the Community College Commission on Monday. Jim Rose, the […]

January 19, 2018

Worldwide Campus Picked as No. 1 Online Bachelor’s

Since 2014, Embry-Riddle Worldwide has ranked in the top five of the annual list, including being named No. 1 for the past three years. In the most current rankings, it tops the list in a tie with Temple University with Arizona State University, Utah State University and Oregon State University rounding out the top five. […]

January 19, 2018

MIT Streamlining Case Studies for Online MOOCs

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s leading role in online education for all is changing how its own faculty approach more traditional education. For example, at the MIT Center for Real Estate, professors are rethinking the case study approach common in management training. The change stems from an effort to introduce case studies to MIT’s “Massive […]

January 19, 2018

panama-screenshots_2-1000×563