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Increases in federal tax credits, combined with growth in grant aid, help some students cover rising expensesSOURCE: The College Board Read the Full Article
The symbiosis between higher education and the tech companies that serve it has been corrupted, says Bradley Wheeler — CIO for the Indiana University SystemSOURCE: Inside Higher EducationRead the Full Article
PHILADELPHIA — One of higher education’s biggest exports is skepticism. So it is perhaps unsurprising that, whereas many educators have questioned the virtue of online education, others would question the way in which the questioners have questioned online education.SOURCE: Inside Higher EducationRead the Full Article
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Western Governors University (WGU), www.wgu.edu, has appointed former Winona State University Provost, Dr. Sally Johnstone, as Vice President, Academic Advancement. In this assignment, Dr. Johnstone will have both an external and an internal role. She will serve as academic spokesperson for the university, acting as a liaison […]
WASHINGTON — Most distance education experts agree that the eventual solution to the new requirement that colleges be authorized by every state where they operate is reciprocity — states will agree to accept each others’ authorization, as they do for driver’s licenses and other credentials.SOURCE: Inside Higher EducationRead the Full Article
One of the most buzzed-about experiments in higher education lately is StraighterLine, a company that offers online versions of introductory courses and works in partnership with universities that award credit to students for completing them.SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher EducationRead the Full Article
The specter and promise of online education is perhaps nowhere more deeply felt than in California, where campus administrators and instructors are faced with a bloodletting. University of California officials have suggested that the system will have to innovate out of the current financial crisis by expanding online programs. (State house analysts agree.) Instructors, meanwhile, […]
Georgetown University General Counsel Stephanie Tsacoumis leads the school’s 20-lawyer in-house team that this year completed a massive two-year project: the creation of an online nursing degree program, Georgetown’s first distance learning program. SOURCE: The Washington PostRead the Full Article
This Statistics in Brief investigates undergraduates’ participation in distance education using nationally representative student-reported data collected through the three most recent administrations of the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:2000, NPSAS:04, and NPSAS:08).SOURCE: US Department of EducationDownload the Report in PDF