The National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP) defines concurrent enrollment—a subset of the dual-enrollment approach—as providing college-credit-bearing courses taught to high school students exclusively by college-approved high school teachers. The NACEP program also requires that high school teachers and college faculty collaborate on aligning the secondary and postsecondary curriculums. To gain NACEP certification, a […]
Tech support is rarely fun—even, apparently, if it's a lot closer than an overseas call center. Despite 24/7 help desk availability and in-person technical consulting, Computing Services and Systems Development (CSSD) staff at the University of Pittsburgh believed their services were being underutilized by the main campus' 26,000-plus students. And those employees thought they knew […]
People walking past 160 Massachusetts Ave. in Boston are likely to both see and hear beautiful music being made. That's the point of this 14,000-square-foot addition to Berklee College of Music. CHALLENGE: College enrollment had grown to 4,000 full-time equivalents but housing was lagging behind. "We only had about 800 beds and we were unable […]
Facebook just turned 10. I remember how thrilled I was when 25 people had requested to be my friend by the end of my first day on Facebook. Since that time, I have become heavily engaged in social networking, and have established and maintained relationships through platforms such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Tumblr and, of course, […]
Historically black colleges and universities are coming together to encourage entrepreneurial ventures and thinking among their students and faculty. Kicking off the initiative is the first HBCU Innovation and Entrepreneurship Collaborative Symposium in late March in conjunction with the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance's Annual OPEN Conference. Hosted also by the Association of Public […]
Central Florida is one of the country's most popular tourist destinations, so it makes sense that hospitality enterprises can be counted on to provide a financial boost—even to higher education institutions. Here at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., a $12.5 million gift from the Harold Alfond Foundation helped us build a 112-room inn that […]
In western Massachusetts, Hampshire College students are "checking out" packets of fruit and vegetable seeds from the library to grow in pots on their patios and in community gardens. They will harvest new seeds from their plants to replenish the library's collection. The idea came from student Hannah Haskell's research on seed libraries elsewhere, says […]
Since last June, students at the for-profit Patten University have been able to take all-you-can-learn, competency-based programs online and at the institution's campus in Oakland, Calif. Undergraduate tuition is $1,316 for a four-month term or $350 for a month. Students can take as many classes as they can fit into their schedule. The average student […]
Question: What do Coca-Cola, BMW and DeVry University all have in common? Answer: Each of these brand names has a sponsorship relationship with the U.S. Olympic Committee. Though there were over 30 official sponsors, only one of them is a university—so DeVry is well-positioned to be the face of 21st century higher education, a national […]
In January, President Obama launched the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault to help colleges and universities combat what he called "the prevalence of rape and sexual assault at our nation's institutions of higher education." The announcement came as a growing number of young women have filed federal complaints against colleges […]
