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MOOCS Struggle to Make MSW Feasible

Since their explosion in 2012, massive online open courses (MOOCs) and online degrees have stood as viable forms of education for certain subjects. Among STEM fields, and computer science particularly, many learners believe that a MOOC can replace a traditional class. As online educators have begun to learn more about their audience, they have improved […]

December 15, 2017

Do We Need Woz U.?

At an October tech conference in Arizona’s Paradise Valley, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak announced a new online technology education platform called Woz U. He expressed hope it would revolutionize the industry and become the standard for software and technology education. “Our goal is to educate and train people in employable digital skills without putting them […]

December 15, 2017

Massachusetts, California Sue DeVos Over Student Relief

BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has filed a lawsuit against U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos saying she failed to process applications for federal loan relief for former students of a now-defunct chain of for-profit colleges. Healey said in the lawsuit filed Thursday that DeVos violated federal law by failing to process applications made […]

December 15, 2017

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Vets Blast Service at College

LaGuardia Community College was once one of the best places for a student veteran. “Not to sound cliché, but it was euphoric,” said Kevin Chimilio, the former president of the student veterans club at the Long Island City campus. “We would hang out there all day, even when classes were over. It was great.” About […]

December 15, 2017

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Is the VA Doing Enough toward “Forever” G.I. Bill?

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs will hire 200 temporary workers and shell out $70 million to implement a major expansion of veterans’ education benefits — a process beset by communication and information technology challenges, veterans advocates and VA officials said Tuesday. Higher-than-anticipated costs is one of a number of problems that the agency […]

December 15, 2017

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Clark Atlanta University Receives Funding to Increase Diversity in Art Museum Leadership

The Clark Atlanta University Art Museum is one of 20 U.S. art museums that will receive funding from the Walton Family Foundation and Ford Foundation as a part of the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative (DAMLI) an effort to increase diversity in curatorial and management staff at art museums nationally.

December 14, 2017

Graduate Students Hopeful After Reported Elimination Of Tuition Waiver Tax

Graduate students across the country breathed a cautious sigh of relief as various reports indicated this week that the newly negotiated GOP tax bill will exclude the tax on graduate student tuition waivers.

December 14, 2017

Report: Delaware University Paid $6M to Ex-administrators

WILMINGTON, Del. — The University of Delaware has paid out more than $6 million to top administrators who voluntarily left their jobs or were forced out since 2007. The News Journal of Wilmington reports nearly a third of the funds went to David Roselle, a former university president who continued to get paid four years […]

December 14, 2017

Colleges Paying Big Money for Coaches May Face Tax Hit

WASHINGTON — A potential new tax on seven-figure salaries for employees of non-profits hasn’t deterred schools from doling out huge contracts to new coaches. Football powers aiming for a national title have continued to pay the market rate for proven coaches, topped by the 10-year, $75 million deal for Jimbo Fisher at Texas A&M. If […]

December 14, 2017

Whitening Academia

While a House Republican proposal to tax the tuition waivers of graduate students may not be among the highest-profile Trump-era assaults on people of color, it represents a serious threat to racial equality. If included in the final tax plan, it would disproportionately harm nonwhite graduate students and be disastrous for the already dismal diversity […]

December 14, 2017

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Grant Would Help Transition to Work

Acting on behalf of the Henry County Veteran’s Assistance Commission, Dorothy Meindok has completed and submitted an application for a grant under the ServiceIllinois department of the Illinois Department of Veteran’s Affairs. That agency will screen the applications and announce what applications have been accepted in January, 2018. If that hurdle is cleared, the ServiceIllinois […]

December 14, 2017

Take the Robot’s Class

How many of you fancy world-class education through MOOCs? If you are accustomed to online courses then it might be a piece of cake for you however many of us face difficulties with the virtual environment. In a bid to improve, the Michigan State University unleashed the first-ever robot-aided online learning which happens to improve […]

December 14, 2017

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Online Students Can Build In-Person Relationships

Even in an online degree program, whether you live close to the school’s campus or hundreds of miles away, you have ways to meet classmates, faculty and alumni in person. If your main hesitation in pursuing an online education is the fear of being isolated, know that you will likely have opportunities to engage with […]

December 14, 2017

Is MOOC Leader Alison the Answer to World’s Needs

With nearly 12 million registered learners, 1.5 million graduates, and 1,000 free courses, the first ever massive open online course (MOOC) Alison has become one of the world’s largest players in online education – and one of the world’s largest certifiers of educational and skills attainment. Founder Mike Feerick’s model for equal access to learning […]

December 14, 2017

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Skills Learned in Service Go a Long Way

Serving in the United States Armed Forces offers an experience like no other. Aside from the opportunity to work with incredibly dedicated people in locations most will never see, military service builds a unique range of skills that can help veterans find success after service. The skills our men and women in uniform gain during […]

December 14, 2017

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Army Cyber Command Eyes University Partnerships

ATHENS, Ga. — The University of Georgia and the U.S. Army’s Cybersecurity Command could soon be exchanging students and workers. A civilian Army official, Ronald Pontius, says the command would take up University of Georgia Vice President for Research David Lee’s offer during a UGA conference on informatics, or big data. Pontius is deputy to […]

December 14, 2017

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For-Profit Colleges May Be Headed for a Boom

The Trump administration seems determine to unravel much of what the Obama administration did, including its crackdown on predatory for-profit colleges which was aimed at protecting students as well as as the federal student aid system. This post explains what and how it is attempting to do this. It was written by Spiros Protopsaltis, a […]

December 14, 2017

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ATI Commits to Enroll and Support High-Achieving, Low- and Moderate-Income Students

Since its launch in December 2016, the American Talent Initiative (ATI), a Bloomberg Philanthropies effort led by the Aspen Institute’s College Excellence Program and Ithaka S+R, has grown from 30 to 86 member institutions

December 13, 2017