It's worth taking a step back to look at how the largest providers of online education in the U.S. teach remote students. Industry watcher Phil Hill discovered that while enrollments from institutions that are almost exclusively online represent only a small percentage at nonprofit and state colleges, they make up about half of the student […]
Eric Gertler, CEO and executive chairman of U.S. News & World Report, defended the publication's contentious university rankings in an opinion piece published yesterday (Feb. 28) in the Wall Street Journal. In the past few months, more than a dozen top-ranked medical schools and at least 40 law schools, including those at Yale and Harvard, have publicly announced they will […]
With support from a $1 million TD Ready Challenge grant from TD Bank Group, Rowan University and its partners are establishing a new Green Jobs Academy to prepare workers with required industry credentials for jobs in offshore wind and solar power. The TD Ready Challenge grant program is an annual, competitive, North American initiative that seeks to […]
Students with disabilities who are usually aided by specialists were forced online during the pandemic. Adapting has helped them forge ingenious ways to learn in an increasingly digital world.
Wednesday, April 19 at 2 pm ET <br><br> Learn about the "5Ps", a step-by-step approach to developing and implementing measures to secure your campus and keeping students, staff, and visitors safe from active shooters and more. The concept of the "5Ps" presented in this webinar is universally applicable.
As we prepare for a new year, we look back on the lessons learned, both good and bad, as the door closes 2022. Questions continued around meeting the needs of non-traditional students, offering flexible learning in different modalities, and ensuring students receive beneficial outcomes for their considerable financial investments. Read more on eCampus News.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the two conservative-backed lawsuits that blocked Biden's plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for federal borrowers. While the liberal justices drilled the lawyers representing the two cases on the standing they have to bring the lawsuit, the conservative justices appeared skeptical of Biden's authority to cancel student […]
With Colorado and Rhode Island College of Design opting out of U.S. News Best College Rankings, a flood of other schools may follow suit. Is your school prepared to market itself effectively in the digital, consumer-first age?
Deloitte, Apple, IBM and Google are some of the big-name companies to partner with the school's STEM field, offering career and skill development training, research opportunities and program funding. As a result, students are leading cutting-edge research and getting hired.
As I recount in the excerpt below, college students are a favorite target of plasma companies, who know that young students need extra cash. I spent time in one unique college town in the Mountain West asking why so many students there sell plasma. The geotargeting of plasma extraction leaves a lot of people out […]
