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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

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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

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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

Academic Freedom in Accrediting

“College Accreditors Need Higher Standards” (editorial, Oct. 20), quite appropriately, calls on the accrediting community to focus more attention on protecting students and to demand better performance from colleges and universities that are accredited. The editorial reflects a growing consensus — from Congress, the Department of Education, members of the media and some in the […]

October 27, 2016

Pentagon Strengthens Transition Program

After your time in the military is up, how do you get ready to go back to the civilian world? For Cpl. Fabian Purvis, it involved a five-day seminar at Camp Pendleton that taught him things like how to translate his military experiences into something a civilian human resources department could better understand, along with […]

October 27, 2016

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Business, Military Leaders Partner on Jobs Summit

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS — Civilian business leaders and senior military personnel rallied to solve the challenge of helping the military community find jobs during the Hawaii Transition Summit, Oct. 18. The two-day summit was organized by the Schofield Barracks Transition Assistance Program (TAP) and Hiring Our Heroes, an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The […]

October 27, 2016

Owner of Shuttered College Charged

MIAMI —The majority owner of the now defunct Dade Medical College is facing misdemeanor criminal charges related to the closing of the school. A Miami-Dade County State Attorney’s Office news release says 47-year-old Ernesto Perez was arrested October 19 and charged with two counts of improper school closure. Perez announced the closing of all six […]

October 27, 2016

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Capella Profit Jumps 54% for Online Enrollment

Capella Education Co. shares rose 12 percent Tuesday after the company’s third-quarter results beat expectations and executives said they expect it will finish the year more strongly than previously forecast. Minneapolis-based Capella said it earned $12.6 million in the July-to-September period, up from $8.2 million a year ago. Adjusted to account for continuing operations, the […]

October 27, 2016

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

House Probes Take Back of Guard Bonuses

WASHINGTON — A House oversight committee on Tuesday launched an investigation into the Army National Guard reclaiming wartime re-enlistment bonuses. The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform requested the service turn over all documents and audits related to it taking back the decade-old payments of $15,000 or more to soldiers who agreed to re-enlist for […]

October 27, 2016

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

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Candidates Should Discuss Innovation in Education

During the presidential debate last night both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump promised to grow the economy and create financial security for more Americans. Yet one issue that could truly make or break our country’s economy barely made it onto the debate stage: education. It’s hard to take seriously ambitious plans for economic growth as […]

October 25, 2016

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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

“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

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

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Concordia Gains Students and a Federal Inquiry

One by one, the newest graduates of Concordia University walked across a small stage and collected their Master of Education degrees. The commencement ceremony earlier this year was the first, and only, day that many will ever spend on campus. The Northeast Portland college now bestows more Master of Education degrees than any other public […]

October 25, 2016

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Why For-Profit Education Often Fails

In the last couple of years, a number of well-known and highly-successful business people have made investments in education with the noble intention of bringing innovation and knowledge to a greater number of learners with convenience and at a lesser cost. However, a number of business ventures in this area have failed rather miserably. Take […]

October 25, 2016

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Report: Veterans Wronged by Closing of For-Profits

When for-profit giants Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institutes shuttered, thousands of veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan lost more than $1 billion in federal education funding that they can never get back. And as the men and women who have served in our military try to finish up their degree, they risk […]

October 25, 2016