The guiding principle for deploying new technology at the University of San Diego is simple: It has to improve the student experience. With that in mind, administrators there have developed an app store featuring apps that go beyond typical functions such as viewing course schedules. Two transaction-based features housed within its umbrella mySDMobile app are […]
Following a spate of violence aimed at animal research facilities in the late 1990s, universities have worked to create greater transparency around scientific testing while maintaining stringent security to protect staff and animals. A higher ed institution's website can play a large role in demonstrating the value of this research and how animals are cared […]
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made national news when, standing beside senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, he announced in January the most recent in a growing number of free tuition proposals. Coming on the heels of similar proposals by Sanders, presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, Cuomo's "Excelsior Scholarship […]
Talk about awkward. It was July 1, and the moving vans had just rolled onto campus with the new president and his family. There was just one problem: the outgoing CEO had not yet moved out of the presidential residence. Although this really happened to one incoming president, who prefers not to reveal his name […]
Russ McDonald, head of United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North Dakota, is serving on a new federal commission to address the challenges facing Native American children. The group will coordinate child protective services among all state, federal and tribal jurisdictions. McDonald also wants to improve background checks to ensure children are placed in suitable […]
Kate Wing, a senior at Smith College, will soon join the 14 percent. That is, the 14 percent of students who started their postsecondary education in a community college, then transferred to a four-year school and earned a bachelor's degree within six years of entry. "In general the pathways to transfer are not clear, and […]
Schmidt Family Complex for Academic and Athletic Excellence Florida Atlantic University The newest addition to the Boca Raton campus is a 96,000-square-foot state-of-the-art football practice facility and academic space. The new complex, which will adjoin FAU Stadium, includes an academic success center along with an indoor football field, two outdoor fields, a sports medicine center, […]
Dougherty Family College, a two-year school, will open on the Minneapolis campus of the University of St. Thomas this fall, thanks to $18 million in private donations. St. Thomas, a private school, designed the program to help students with diverse and economically disadvantaged backgrounds attain a degree. St. Thomas plans to enroll 150 students for […]
The STEM workforce was about 8.6 million in 2015, and is projected to grow to more than 9 million by 2022, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Borough of Manhattan Community College and The City University of New York are stepping up to try to fill the need for more STEM workers […]
The combination of the campus expansion boom of the past decade and the recent flattening of enrollment rates continues to create a significant backlog of deferred maintenance at many institutions, according to the 2016 "State of Facilities in Higher Education" report from Sightlines, an education facility assessment consultancy. And that backlog is leading to some […]
