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Colleges and universities possess an exceptional volume and variety of personal information. Given this fact—along with their wide range of activities, the often decentralized nature of their operations, and their growing reliance on technologies that collect and centrally store data—these institutions face significant privacy and security challenges. Unfortunately, to date, most colleges and universities in […]
Washington, D.C. — To help keep America competitive and provide students and families with more information and more affordable access to higher education, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today announced her plans to improve the U.S. higher education system, based on the recommendations in the final report of her Commission on the Future of […]
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings plans a many faceted campaign to carry out the recommendations of her Commission on the Future of Higher Education, including providing matching funds to colleges and states that collect and publicly report how well their students learn, building a “privacy protected†database of college students’ academic records, and streamlining the process […]
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) — With her first child headed for college this fall and two more soon to follow, Carol Wright was lost.Read the Full Story
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings will announce her plans to help make the U.S. higher education system more affordable, accessible and consumer-friendly on Tuesday, Sept. 26 at 12:30 p.m. at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Chairman Charles Miller and other commission members will join Secretary Spellings.Read the Full Story
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today made the following statement on the receipt of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education’s final report:Read the Full Story
National Workshop Convenes to Help Colleges and Universities PrepareRead the Full Story
WASHINGTON D.C. – If the Internet is to continue to flourish and grow, it must not be “bogged down by bureaucratic and politicized decision making,” Dr. Thomas Lenard said today at a Capitol Hill hearing. Lenard, senior fellow and senior vice president for research with The Progress & Freedom Foundation, was a witness at a […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. House Education Committee leaders today cited a new report, “Mortgaging our Future,†issued by the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance as further evidence in favor of a renewed focus on hyperinflation in college costs. The Advisory Committee serves as an independent source of advice and counsel to Congress and the […]
CHICAGO, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — eCollege(R) (Nasdaq: ECLG), a leading provider of value-added information services to the post-secondary education industry, today announced it has promoted Vance Allen to be its chief technology officer (CTO). Allen, who joined eCollege in 1997 as a software engineer, helped build eCollege’s first course management system and has since played […]
