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The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released results from a second undercover “secret shopper” investigation of for-profit colleges, this time attempting to enroll a fictitious student online at 15 unnamed institutions.SOURCE: Inside Higher Education Read the Full Artcile
University administrators have begun implementing the new “open-access” policy approved this fall by Princeton faculty members to expand the public’s access to their research.Princeton UniversityRead the Press Release
The ECAR study of undergraduate students and information technology sheds lights on how information technology affects the college experience. EDUCAUSEDownload the Report
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
In one of her first public appearances as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard this month, Meg Whitman beamed in by videoconference to a meeting of college technology leaders to announce the company’s participation in what colleges are calling a “community cloud”—a pool of high-performance computers that researchers can tap into online, as needed, from any participating […]
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, […]
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
