Prospective and current students, as well as alumni, need guidance from their institutions in being responsible about taking out student loans and then paying them back.
Through a new partnership, students will be able to earn college credit using Study.com's online courses, and then transfer those completed course credits to Champlain College Online.
In the wake of the Varsity Blues scandal, predatory online "educational startups" offering guidance on finding and winning competitive fellowships showcase a troubling flaw in the U.S. educational system, says guest columnist Kyle Mox, an associate dean at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University.
The non-degree granting, for-profit sector of higher education has been experiencing success with coding and other technology boot camps since 2012. Encouraged by that success, both public and private degree-granting institutions have jumped on the bandwagon in recent years.
Although the news media has focused on a number of serious issues in higher ed, including the admissions scandal and the devastating impact of student debt that now exceeds credit card debt, not much has been said about demographics, a key force changing both the structure and the size of higher ed in America.
I love etymology, which is the study of word origins and how word meanings have changed over time. Here are some intriguing items I found in a recent Google search: Tragedy comes from a Greek word for “song of the male goat.” Curfew comes from two French words combined to mean “[to] cover fire.” (Since […]
All universities have a special duty to emphasize diversity and inclusion because we are educating the workforce and civic leaders of the next generation. Miami University's deliberate strategies have helped us integrate diversity and inclusion into every decision we make.
Colleges and universities around the country are teaming with providers and organizations on new programs, covering public interest technology, retail management, employee mortgage loans, clean energy research, online courses and equity.
