A little time in prison brings fourth-year University of Washington law students much closer to people impacted by the issues they're studying. Fourth-year Law, Societies and Justice students learn alongside inmates in a seminar class taught by program director and professor Steve Herbert at the Monroe Correctional Facility near Seattle. This year's course offering is […]

Oral Roberts University made headlines recently with news that all first-year students will be required to buy and wear a Fitbit, one of the many fitness-trackers that have come to market in recent years. The device, worn on the wrist, uses an accelerometer to turn movement into digital measurements that can track steps taken, distance […]

†‹Encouraging students to take a full-time course load to target on-time graduation has become a popular focus area in higher ed. Cleveland State University takes the concept a step further with its graduation incentive plan—in which students earn tuition rebates and bookstore credits for staying on track. The incentives are available to all CSU undergrads who […]

What's the biggest misconception administrators outside the facilities department tend to have related to heating and cooling campus buildings? "Administrators believe [that] just because they have invested a lot of capital in an expensive energy efficiency upgrade to a facility, the opportunity for behavioral energy conservation savings is minimal. The reality is, energy efficiency upgrades […]