Considering that textbooks can account for 25 percent of a community college student's degree, some institutions have banded together to develop more open educational resources. A coalition of institutions in Washington recently launched a competency-based online business degree that doesn't require textbooks. When students pay for the course, they also pay for all of the […]
Nirmal P. Narvekar is the new president and CEO of Harvard's $35.7 billion endowment, the largest fund in higher ed. Narvekar, a former JPMorgan Chase & Co. derivatives trader, was also previously CEO of Columbia University's $9.6 billion fund, which returned an average 10.1 percent during his leadership from 2005 to 2015. At Harvard, he […]
Higher education historians often trace the modern growth and democratization of American higher learning to federal student financial aid – providing a system of higher education financing that has opened the doors of college and university campuses to students and families who would otherwise be unable to afford the spiraling costs of college tuition. […]
Technology can be a powerful resource for behavioral health care. It grants a level of comfort and anonymity to those who have questions or concerns about their mental health, making it easier to reach people who otherwise might not seek help. Telehealth solutions—like patients meeting their therapists for sessions over Skype or using mood tracking […]
Over the last several decades, programs in Health Coaching, Health Advocacy, and Nutrition have gone from rare to a significant number of undergraduate and graduate programs of varying lengths, prerequisites, and professional focus. Duke University's Integrative Medicine offers an Integrative Health Coach Professional Training Program, which features a Foundation Course, focusing on core competencies […]
Between classes, students at Jackson College, a community college located in southern Michigan, tend to gravitate to the Jets Hangar. The recently renovated student center serves as a gathering, studying and entertainment spot for the institution's more than 7,000 residential and commuter students. The team at the college quickly realized a desirable dining option was […]
When leaders at Brigham Young University-Idaho searched for a student success solution in 2012, they could not find an end-to-end system that encompassed every step of the student lifecycle. In 2013, BYU-Idaho partnered with Excelsoft, a technology solutions provider, to custom-design a comprehensive product for the institution's 44,844 students. "We had the manager from each […]
The ills of society are often magnified in the high-intensity atmosphere of college campuses. Over the last two years, violent events involving police officers and a perceived lack of administrative responsiveness to incidents of on-campus racial bias have led to protests and confrontations. On most campuses, these demonstrations were organized to address issues of diversity, […]
Five years ago, Texas A&M Industrial and Systems Engineering students at the main campus in College Station, Texas, had one option for accessing course-required software to do their homework—a university computer lab. In the near future, thanks to Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp and the university's BYOD initiative, engineering majors on the main campus, home to […]
Higher ed has become the latest target of retirement plan fee litigation. One firm in particular has filed class-action suits against dozens of universities, alleging breaches of ERISA fiduciary duties. The tactic has been used for years in business, says Eric Paley of legal consultants Nixon Peabody. When Midwest law firm Schlichter Bogard & Denton […]
