Digital Delivery and Higher Education at BISG's MIP Confab
Publishers Weekly
In the third annual focus on Higher Ed Publishing in The Book Industry Study Group's series of Making Information Pay conferences, speakers offered a wealth of data that show a college textbook market moving slowly but surely to digital delivery, the ...
Times Higher Education
Inside Higher Ed: Liberal Arts Go Dutch
Times Higher Education
The traditionally American liberal arts model continues to gain popularity around the globe, but perhaps nowhere has it become so well-established so quickly as in the Netherlands. After Utrecht University founded the first liberal arts-oriented ...
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Higher education faces changes as money shrinks
Superior Telegram
The head of a national education association told the UW Board of Regents that the future of colleges and universities may look very different from today. Institutions of higher learning are trying to adapt as they get less money from the state ...
10 top-paying college degrees for 2012 graduates
CBS Moneywatch
As usual, engineering dominated the best-paying college degree list. As a group, engineering majors saw a 3.9 percent increase in their average starting salaries over those in the previous graduating class. Aerospace engineers enjoyed the largest boost.
TechCrunch
A Huge Month: Online Education Is Replacing Physical Colleges At A Crazy Fast ...
TechCrunch
Educators knew the online revolution would eventually envelop the physical classroom, but a torrent of near-revolutionary developments in the past month are proving that change is coming quicker than anyone imagined. In just 30 days, the largest school ...
College credit recommended for free online coursesTimes-Standard
Council endorses online courses for creditUW Badger Herald
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Poll: Americans want lower tuition, credit for competency
UW Badger Herald
The majority of the American public agrees higher education institutions should reduce their tuition rates and award students credit for competency instead of time, according to a poll released last week. American adults overwhelmingly desire a new ...
Report emphasizes desire, obstacles to collegeBusiness First of Buffalo (blog)
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Grand Valley State University Provost Gayle Davis: College degree 'most ...
MLive.com
Those of us in higher education always welcome constructive review, but it's important to correct the misunderstanding that a college degree isn't worth the time and money invested. Current job requirements and opportunities are changing fast. So ...
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Colleges Ask Government to Clarify Rules for Credit Based on Competency
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Forty years after Regents College became the first in the nation to award degrees based on proof of prior learning, competency-based education, as its model became known, may finally be on the verge of federal approval. Within days, the U.S. Department ...
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Researcher Is Lauded for Discovering How Students Spend Their Time
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
George D. Kuh has won so many higher-education awards that he can't convincingly feign the modesty expected of prize winners. In Philadelphia last month, he got a big laugh when he said, upon being handed his latest honor: "I'm just going to accept as ...
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Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
How Much Do You Pay for College?
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Caleb Kenna for The Chronicle Review. To jump-start a dialogue between working-class and wealthy students at Middlebury College, members of an advocacy group there are upfront about how much they and their parents pay each year in tuition and fees.
