New Orleans higher education briefs for Feb. 4, 2013
The Advocate
New Orleans — Loyola University New Orleans' professor of video technology Jim Gabour will present “Treme's Underground Carnival: Baby Dolls and Skeletons” at 5 p.m. Monday in Nunemaker Auditorium in Monroe Hall. The event is free and open to the ...
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Dean, College of Business
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Nominations are invited for the Dean, College of Business. The dean leads the advancement of the school through its education programs for undergraduates and MBA, but building strong internal and external communities to support the school's continued ...
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Academe's Still-Precarious Freedom
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Harry Keyishian was a junior at New York City's Queens College in 1952 when the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee came to town. The subcommittee's goal was to persuade the local Board of Higher Education to be more aggressive in rooting out ...
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
The End Is Not Nigh for Colleges
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
The sky is not falling on higher education. Doomsayers believe that purveyors of massive open online courses, or for-profit companies, or shadowy entrepreneurs will make higher education so cheap that any number of existing colleges and universities ...
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Require Business 101 for Every Student
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
While that number includes both college-educated and other young adults, it's a discouraging figure for professors and students alike. We owe it to our students to give them the best opportunity to start their careers on solid ground. From my perch at ...
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
For New Ideas in Scholarly Publishing, Look to the Library
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Bryn Geffert is librarian of Amherst College, where the libraries are starting an academic press. Open access, he says ... Mr. Geffert is starting a new publishing operation overseen by the library and committed to open access, called the Amherst ...
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Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Mary J. Sansalone
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
The center will promote education in science, technology, engineering, and math, and will integrate activities in the Cullen College of Engineering and in the Colleges of Education, Technology, and Natural Sciences and Mathematics. She will also join ...
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Lexington Herald Leader
Millions of college grads in jobs that don't require degree
Dayton Daily News
Millions of college graduates who saw a degree as their ticket to a good-paying career and a secure life are working in jobs that do not require their education or even a high school diploma, sometimes leaving them with small wages to pay thousands in ...
Ky. Voices: Higher education still a sound investmentLexington Herald Leader
College graduates face underemployment, report suggestsDaily Free Press (subscription)
5 Ways to Afford Your College EducationSayCampusLife
Salon
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
Southern Mississippi Leaning Toward Hiring Black President
Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
JACKSON, Miss. — More than 50 years ago, the University of Southern Mississippi rejected a chance to admit a Black man and end segregation in the state's higher education system. Today, the school is likely to become the first of Mississippi's ...
Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
King's Dream Should Spark Lives of Service
Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
Parents and love providers back in the day believed that education would be the key that would open a lot of doors for us. My neighborhood ... The question wasn't whether we were going to college, it was simply where we would be going to college. Mind ...
