Lamar Medal For Higher Education Presented To Drayton McLane Jr.
Baylor University
Drayton McLane Jr. received the Mirabeau B. Lamar Medal for his extraordinary contributions to higher education in Texas Jan. 23 in Austin. McLane was nominated for the award by the presidents of Baylor and UMHB. (Robert Rogers/Baylor Marketing and ...
Baylor backer Drayton McLane receives education awardWaco Tribune-Herald
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Desire2Learn Acquires Course-Suggestion Software Inspired by Netflix and ...
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) (blog)
... the invention when they were exploring ways to help improve college retention. “Only one in two U.S. students graduate from a college or university,” he said, citing the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems. “These are huge ...
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Not a college grad? No job recovery for you
MSN Money
Despite the lusty anti-intellectual choruses that served as the soundtrack to the recent economic downturn, an increasing amount of evidence shows that a college degree or advanced version thereof actually comes in pretty handy. Yes, there were more ...
Higher Ed's Biggest Problem: What's It For?
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) (blog)
What's more, we no longer even have a common definition of “higher education.” The lack of consensus about what the higher-education system in the United States should be producing is largely to blame for the pressures facing colleges and universities ...
OPINION: Higher education
Scottsbluff Star Herald
The National Commission on Higher Education Attainment, a group of leading college and university presidents, points out that it's not enough to simply entice students to enroll. They say the nation faces an “unacceptable loss of human potential” when ...
Public Invited to Black History Month at Chesapeake CollegeThe Star Democrat
Buckeye Hills: Adult Basic Education more than just a GEDVinton Courier
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DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF LETTERS, ARTS, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences. The Dean reports to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.
Not Getting What You Paid For
Inside Higher Ed
ATLANTA -- Everyone knows there's a reason the most expensive colleges in the country -- generally private residential institutions -- charge so much. The money they spend on hiring the best faculty members (full-timers of course) and on keeping ...
Can Virtual Classrooms Recreate a Traditional College Experience?
Mashable
The burgeoning online education scene is a practical option to a traditional college education for a number of reasons — cost, convenience and efficiency. And for professors it offers a consistent classroom format. A number of online education sites ...
New York State Higher Education Services Corporation receives $6.8M federal ...
Troy Record
TROY — The New York State Higher Education Services Corporation announced Thursday that a new $6.8 million federal College Access Challenge Grant was awarded to New York state to increase college enrollment and completion among its low-income ...
King: Perry takes on higher education
Longview News-Journal
One of the high profile, high stakes battles being waged in the Texas capital is over what higher education in Texas will look like in the future. Gov. Rick Perry declared the war by concluding the state's major universities, and the University of ...
