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The explosion in the distance learning industry has created near chaos in how to tell good schools from the bad. Students are stuck with diplomas that no traditional institution will recognize, even though many distance learning schools qualify for student loans. While some schools are shams, others exceed the standards of many campus-based schools. Blame […]
“The committee may consider enlarging the scope of the investigation to include other agencies,” said Andrea Hofelich, committee communications director.Read the Full Story
Many of these institutions run glossy adverts in upmarket business magazines offering unaccredited degrees that have not been earned. It is a case of buyer beware.Read the Full Story
Congressional investigators looking into possible instances of eRate waste, fraud, and abuse say $5 million worth of computer equipment bought for Chicago schools has languished in a warehouse for years.Read the Full Story
Last summer’s 28 percent jump for in-state four-year colleges, as well as a recently adopted plan to institutionalize yearly tuition hikes at the State University of New York, demonstrate the system’s tenuous state.Read the Full Story
Although the cut was not as drastic as some administrators had feared this year, the institution has been suffering cuts over the past 10 years. “When you add all these cuts together, it adds up to about $116 million in the past 10 years,” Provost James Oblinger said. Read the Full Story
The nearly 500 schools using software licensed from Levings Learning will suffer no harm as the result of the federal lawsuit filed against the company on Dec. 24, CEO Kenton Levings told eSchool News. Levings’ comments notwithstanding, news of the suit has raised concerns among the company’s school customers. Read the Full Story
There are a lot of ideas about protecting faculty rights in distance education courses within the covers of a new union report.Read the Full Story
Under the plan that the University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary and Virginia Tech are pitching to lawmakers, the institutions would agree to take a limited share of state money in exchange for being freed from some personnel, purchasing and construction regulations, which university officials say would reduce expenses substantially. Read the […]
The ULM Web site has posted online evaluations of professors and instructors for the first time. The evaluations are available at www.ulm.edu. Visitors to the site should go to the bottom of the home page and select “Online Course Evaluations.” That will take the visitor to another choice. Pick “Course Evaluation Results.” Visitors will then […]