Higher education and the California budget: Brown's plan offers more money for ...
San Jose Mercury News
Gov. Jerry Brown's budget plan announced Thursday morning gives California's colleges and universities good news for the first time in years. The CSU and UC systems would each receive an additional $125 million in funding for core instructional programs.
Forbes
It Still Pays To Get A College Degree
Forbes
The cover story in the most recent issue of Forbes describes the stunning rise of David Karp, 26, the founder and CEO of the social networking website Tumblr, who is now worth an estimated $200 million. Karp dropped out of high school and never even ...
CNBC.com (blog)
Lower enrollment at public universities hits revenues
Chicago Tribune
“While a majority of universities continue to project net tuition revenue growth, a growing share is not able to keep pace with inflation,” said Moody's in a report that also looked at private education. “This growing revenue challenge is forcing ...
The College Tuition Bubble May Be Bursting...Um, Yay?CNBC.com (blog)
Priced OutInside Higher Ed
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Ind. education chief seeks more college graduates
WANE
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Indiana's education chief says lawmakers need to make wiser investments in higher education to improve the state's college graduation rate, including new financial aid incentives for students who earn top grades and graduate on time.
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) (blog)
Finally, a Path Toward Solutions to the Crisis in Higher Ed
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) (blog)
What is higher education? We tend to romanticize what happens on a college campus these days to fit a vision of higher ed from a generation ago. Yet today's students no longer fit that mold, and they are often forgotten in this debate. The rhetoric of ...
College Pricing, Testing Texas: Ed Today
Huffington Post (blog)
Well, that's a little interesting: Texas is the birthplace of so many of the test-based accountability systems that pervade modern education policy. The College Tuition Trap? According to a Moody's survey, the demand for four-year-colleges is ...
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Technorati
A promising time for online learning, higher education
Kansas City Star
The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Wednesday, Jan. 9: Got an itch to learn single variable calculus? Or how about game theory, or introduction to artificial intelligence? Courses formerly confined to the nooks and crannies of ...
Online college courses to grant credentials, for a feeWashington Post
Coursera Announces Details for Selling Certificates and Verifying IdentitiesChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) (blog)
What You Need to Know About MOOCsKQED (blog)
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
Are college degrees still worth it in this economy?
USA TODAY
Findings, which complement multiple studies showing that a college degree significantly increases a young adult's chances of gaining economic security, suggest that the advantage held true through the recent economic recession. "Despite the recession ...
Benefits of College Degree in Recession Are OutlinedNew York Times
Pew Report Finds that College Degrees Shelter Economic StabilityDiverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
A Degree Still HelpsInside Higher Ed
Syracuse.com -St. Louis Beacon -Today.com (blog)
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GPB
Students reaping benefits of higher education mergers in our state
Newnan Times-Herald
This week the Georgia Board of Regents gave approval to the merger of eight college campuses into four new schools. This merger within the University System of Georgia follows an earlier merger of some of the technical colleges in our state operated by ...
Higher education Regents to approve mergersWSLS
History of Macon State, Middle Georgia collegesMacon Telegraph (blog)
Regents create 4 new schools from 8 Ga. campuses - CBS Atlanta 46WGCL Atlanta
Statesboro Herald -GPB -The Augusta Chronicle
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Inside INdiana Business (press release)
Lubbers Outlines Higher Education Goals
Inside INdiana Business (press release)
Indiana's Commissioner for Higher Education has announced an action plan to improve graduation rates at colleges and universities in the state. In her first state of higher education address, Teresa Lubbers called on the General Assembly to invest more ...
Future Workforce Demands Hinge On Post-Secondary EducationIndiana Public Media
Indiana education chief seeks better graduation ratesEvansville Courier & Press
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