Tag "higher education"
Four-Year Degrees at Two-Year Colleges: Why Not?
Its a movement that has been gaining steam nationally with Michigan and Florida among the states now embracing the idea.
How to Speed Up the College Completion Process
The typical college student is no longer the 18- to 24-year-olds that finished high school and immediately went on to college. Today’s college students are a diverse lot and include military veterans, stay-at-home mothers, business folk, and others.
President’s College Rating Initiative and Financial Aid
If you listened to President Obama’s speech last month about higher education and affordability, you may have nodded in agreement with his comments that college has never been more important nor has it been more expensive than it is right now.
About the Collegiate Learning Assessment Test
Tweet Your Grade Point Average is like gold to many employers, a number that sheds light on well you performed academically while in college. However, the GPA is also not
NCEE Study Faults High Schools on Student Community College Preparedness
Tweet Community colleges, also known as technical colleges and junior colleges, offer a higher education starting point for many students. The College Board notes that more than 1,200 such schools
Is edX the Future of Online Education?
Tweet That hasn’t stopped other prestigious universities from joining the program nor is it silencing speculation whether this education model can possibly endure. MOOCs Nonetheless, this Harvard-MIT project is bringing
Advocacy Group Offers 3 Ideas for Funding Higher Education
Tweet A group known as the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education has been advocating for better funding of higher education and recently outlined three ideas that it says
Higher Education Advocates Call For Financial Aid Accountability
Tweet In a white paper released earlier this week, “Aligning the Means and the Ends: How to Improve Federal Student Aid and Increase College Access and Success, ” TICAS outlined
7 Reasons for Attending College
Tweet However, if you’re flexible in your choice of college, then there shouldn’t be much of any obstacle that would keep you from attending. Therefore, the answer here is “no.”
Focused College Freshmen Have Their Careers In Mind
Tweet The UCLA survey, conducted annually, is administered by that university’s Higher Education Research Institute, part of its Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Economic Influence The current survey
SJSU and Udacity Partnership: The Future of Higher Education?
Tweet If you believe this statement, then you do not have your pulse on the changes we’ve been seeing in recent years to contain these costs. Rented textbooks. Federal Pell
Wilson College Votes to Become a Coeducational Institution
Tweet Women-only colleges in particular were once part of the higher education landscape, but these schools have been going coeducational or merging with other colleges in a bid to stay
