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Obama Aide Challenges College Presidents to Encourage Civic Engagement

Valerie B. Jarrett—who for eight years served as a senior advisor to President Barack Obama—told college presidents that they had an important role in preparing students for civic engagement.

January 8, 2018

Scholars Find Solidarity at MLA Convention

Invigorated by animated discussions about research, teaching, literature, linguistics and careers in and outside of the academy, several thousand Humanities scholars braved the snow and frigid temperature to gather in New York City for the annual convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA).

January 7, 2018

Weather, Maintenance Issues Delay Start of Spring Semester at Howard

Ruptured pipes and ongoing heating issues has caused Howard University to delay the start of spring classes by a week.

January 7, 2018

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University of Montana Female Permanent Deans Down To 1

MISSOULA — A university dean says only one female permanent dean remains at the University of Montana, creating a gender balance issue. The Missoulian reported last week that Dean of Libraries Shali Zhang was left as the lone female permanent dean after two other female leaders left their posts. Christopher Comer, who leads the College […]

January 7, 2018

Joliet Junior College Getting Partial Tuition Reimbursements

JOLIET, Ill. — Officials say students who attend Joliet Junior College are receiving a partial tuition reimbursement. The college’s board of trustees and leadership raised tuition by $19 per credit hour to make up for an anticipated reduction in state funding. However, Joliet Junior College president Judy Mitchell wrote in an email to students that […]

January 7, 2018

Building Better MOOCS

A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is an ideal way to get students, employees or interested parties together and to learn something – they’ve even been shown to work for the most maligned of subjects, Compliance Training! But, how do you keep a MOOC social? What should you focus on if you are developing a […]

January 5, 2018

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Veterans Find Release Through Writers Workshop

SALEM, Mass. — Vietnam veteran Marc Levy of Salem stood up before dozens in Abbot Hall in Marblehead, and read his essay called “The Quiet Time,” which describes the drinking of morning coffee on the battlefield in an act akin to salvation. “Tear open and pour in one or two packets of non dairy creamer. […]

January 5, 2018

At Texas A&M, Nearly 600 Students Enrolled in Maritime Academy

GALVESTON, Texas — A guaranteed sight on Texas A&M University at Galveston’s campus is students in Navy-issued khaki uniforms. The Galveston County Daily News reports this year, 579 of the students on the Pelican Island campus participate in the Texas A&M Maritime Academy and the Corps of Cadets. The Maritime Academy’s mission is to provide […]

January 5, 2018

Elearning in Higher Ed Will Grow in 2018

As reported in this year’s ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, for four years running, the number of students preferring a blended learning environment that includes “some to mostly online components” has increased while students preferring a face-to-face only learning environment has continued to decline. With student demand growing, in 2018, it seems […]

January 5, 2018

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Fewer Serve in Military, Creating Social Distance, Job Bias

Army veteran Anthony Sadler spent more than thirty years in the military, including two deployments to Iraq. But though he’s no longer in the armed services, he still feels most comfortable around people with military backgrounds. Many nights, you’ll find him unwinding in the beer garden or at the canteen of Veterans of Foreign Wars […]

January 5, 2018

Book Looks at Rise of the “Military Friendly” Campus

Ask anyone doing social justice work in the US to name the glaring problems of our society and the list will come quickly – income inequality, gentrification, racism, sexism, lack of health care, crumbling schools. . . the list goes on and on. Too often, though, we fail to name the elephant in the room: […]

January 5, 2018

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Army Veteran Who Killed Deputy Was Star Student

DENVER — He was once a standout student in law school and an Army medic who deployed to Iraq. By last weekend, he lay dead in a Colorado apartment building, killed by a SWAT team after he gunned down a 29-year-old deputy. Matthew Riehl’s six-year descent from a budding attorney to a gunman who live-streamed […]

January 5, 2018

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DeVos Wants to Make Loan Forgiveness Harder

During her tenure so far, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has made it her mission to walk back regulations placed on the for-profit education industry. This week, it was revealed that she wants to take that mandate a step further by making it more difficult for students defrauded by online and in-person for-profits to forgive […]

January 5, 2018

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Educational Road Bumps in 2017

Last year,higher education appears to have been on a bumpy, roller coaster back seat ride, according to experts.

January 4, 2018

New Book on Breakaway Learners Puts the Focus on At-Risk Students

Dr. Karen Gross, the author of Breakaway Learners: Strategies for Post-Secondary Success with At-Risk Students, would say that I work with breakaway learners, who are non-traditional and often marginalized students whom our K-20 system wasn’t designed to support. What I see at my school and what is increasingly becoming the norm throughout higher education is that non-traditional students are here and most post-secondary institutions aren’t equipped to support them or meet them where they are.

January 4, 2018

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More Community Colleges Are Hiring Chief Diversity Officers

Following the model of four-year institutions, community colleges across the country have now begun to hire chief diversity officers (CDOs) at increasing rates.

January 4, 2018

La Salle University Hopes to Raise Millions From Selling Art

PHILADELPHIA — La Salle University is selling nearly 50 pieces of art from its museum collection which it thinks could raise millions as it deals with financial struggles that have led to layoffs. The sale includes a wide range of styles and genres, including paintings by American realist Thomas Eakins and early 17th century Italian […]

January 4, 2018

Judge Weighs Whether NC Schools Conspired to Depress Wages

GREENSBORO, N.C.— A federal judge will have to decide whether two elite North Carolina universities had a cozy agreement not to compete by hiring away medical talent from the hospital and education enterprises each have built. U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles heard arguments Thursday in Greensboro on a radiology professor’s allegation that Duke University and […]

January 4, 2018