A group of students from Notre Dame de Namur University in California went to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, to interpret for Spanish-speaking women and children who had crossed the border from Mexico, and were seeking asylum.
Outfitted with some unique furniture from Computer Comforts, one oddly shaped and relatively small room at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas' new medical school is all that and much more. Sponsored content by Computer Comforts.
For the thousands of colleges and universities that were not ensnared by the Justice Department's "Operation Varsity Blues" investigation, their collective sigh of relief could be premature.
Higher ed institutions are offering more flexible schedules to accommodate the needs of today's college students, who are often working adults. Options include late-start courses, mini-semesters, and block schedules that allow undergrads to enroll in just one course at a time.
Renu Khator has made the University of Houston a Tier 1 research institution and completed a $1 billion fundraising campaign, while reversing low-graduation rates, planning a medical school and recommitting to athletic programs.
As more colleges and universities add online courses to their catalogs, the market share for online program managers (OPM) has begun feeling the effect.
The 109,000-square-foot facility features several reconfigurable research laboratories and the Center for Design Thinking, a collaboration with the Department of Visual and Literary Arts.
