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Inside Higher Ed - Big Job, Big Problems (March 14, 2012) - The top job for an enormous swath of American higher education is opening up. It offers the potential to play a lead role in determining the success of the national college "completion agenda," as well as a laundry list of problems daunting enough to intimidate even the most ambitious of applicants... |
Board of Regents - Board of Regents Committee Works to Improve Transfers (March 13, 2012) - The Board of Regents for Higher Education's Academic and Student Affairs (ASA) Committee held a three-hour public forum on Friday, March 9, after which the ASA Committee voted to amend and approve a transfer and articulation agreement which will be considered by the full Board of Regents during Thursday's meeting at Norwalk Community College... |
Inside Higher Ed - Anti-Transfer Bias (March 13, 2012) - Matthew Kahn is the first to admit his blog post was poorly crafted, insufficiently researched and offensive. The University of California at Los Angeles economics professor suggested on his personal blog that UCLA's transfer students were often less committed to the institution than their peers who spent four years in Westwood. He added that the university should admit more of those students as 18-year-olds instead of sending them to two-year colleges where academics might be a "watering down" of UCLA coursework... |
HigherEd Morning - New Study: Are Remedial Classes A Dead End? (March 12, 2012) - Tens of thousands of freshmen find themselves placed in remedial classes every year. But is this turning out to be a waste of everyone's time? When you look at the facts, it isn't pretty: Fewer than 25% of community college freshmen who are put into remedial classes go on to get their degree... |
Inside Higher Ed - Birth Control and College Completion (March 12, 2012) - Community colleges could improve their graduation rates by helping students avoid unplanned pregnancies. That's the thinking behind a campaign to encourage faculty members to incorporate material about pregnancy planning into academic courses... |
Inside Higher Ed - Doubling Down on Degrees (March 12, 2012) - Four years after first introducing performance-based funding for public colleges in the state, Indiana's Higher Education Commission is upping the ante... |
Chronicle of Higher Ed - Out of Uniform: At Half a Million and Counting, Veterans Cash In on Post-9/11 GI Bill (March 11, 2012) - Veterans of World War II who went to college on the GI Bill tend to sound awestruck when they describe earning a degree on Uncle Sam's dime. Theirs, after all, was a personal transformation with profound impact: The windfall of college graduates in the postwar decade... |
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Inside Higher Ed - Education Department Releases FAFSA Completion Data (March 14, 2012) - The Education Department will track the number of students completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and release the data to the public, sorted by high school, the department announced Tuesday... |
New England Board of Higher Ed - Warming up to a Tuition Freeze (March 14, 2012) - The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, in its recently released fourth quarter 2011 New England Community Survey, cited an emerging concern facing low- and moderate-income communities: the escalating cost of higher education... |
Inside Higher Ed - Students Lobby to Stop Interest Rate Increase (March 14, 2012) - Advocacy groups, including Campus Progress, US PIRG, Rebuild the Dream and other student groups, delivered 130,000 letters from students to Congress on Wednesday, asking the lawmakers to stop the interest rate on subsidized student loans from doubling to 6.8 percent in July... |
Inside Higher Ed - Paying to Pay it Forward - (March 14, 2012) - Reed College alumni are paying - yes, paying -- for the privilege of connecting their younger counterparts with jobs. Take Sonya Masinovsky, who, since graduating with a psychology degree in 2004, has helped found a nonprofit and worked on the production crew for the ABC show "Lost," and is now a freelance producer and writer working on a series for History Channel 2... |
CT Mirror - A center of collaboration on education reform rejects Malloy (March 14, 2012) - New Haven teachers were apprehensive when they backed a new evaluation system three years ago, but they were not angry. As New Haven Superintendent Reginald Mayo said Tuesday night, "It has been done through collaboration... |
Chicago Tribune - Some Teens Start College Work Early Via Dual Enrollment: Concurrent enrollment offers students a chance to get high school and college credit simultaneously (March 12, 2012) - Senioritis is said to sap the energy, dull the mind, and waste the time of high school students. But some teens have found a cure for the blahs: "Dual" or "concurrent" college classes let them earn high school and college credits for the same course... |
CT Mirror - Rhee: Connecticut is the state to watch (March 14, 2012) - Michelle Rhee, one of the biggest names in the national education reform movement, traveled to Connecticut's Capitol Wednesday with a message: Democrats nationwide are watching..."If this bill is defeated, it will send a message to other Democratic governors in other states... |
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CT Mirror - Teachers union to Rhee: Butt out (March 14, 2012) - Hours before Michelle Rhee is set to speak at a rally at the state Capitol, the head of the state's teachers union offered a suggestion for legislators considering a gamut of education reforms: ignore her... |
Community College Times - Let's change how we measure success-now (March 13, 2012 ) - Oh, those graduation rates! The misuse of them is the bane of all community colleges. The problem is that these troublesome rates do not accurately portray our performance... |
Inside Higher Ed - Rewarding Teaching (March 13, 2012) - What would it look like if, say, the Federal government were to decide to prioritize good college-level teaching at the same level that it supports university research... |
Community College Times - The new entrepreneurship challenge (March 12, 2012) - Increasingly, community college presidents are being asked to serve on economic development councils and community development corporations. There is an increased recognition that the presence of a community college, as part of community planning, can pay dividends... |
Inside Higher Ed - Carrots for Faculty (March 12, 2012) - Higher education policy experts, philanthropists and private foundations have lately rallied around a public agenda for postsecondary institutions to do a better job of educating students. Even our fractious political parties can agree on this, at least, but they rarely agree on how to do it... |
Chronicle of Higher Ed - My Ignorance and Me, in Front of a Classroom (March 11, 2012) - I'm a transplant to Tacoma, Wash., like many. Before packing up the truck, loading up the dogs, and leaving behind a stiff mortgage in Salt Lake City, I heard the warnings and rumors about T-Town... |
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