Mississippi Press
College Board extends Higher Education Commissioner Hank Bounds' contract ...
The Republic
The College Board voted unanimously Thursday to extend Bounds' contract as commissioner of higher education. Bounds had about 18 months remaining on his original four-year contract signed in 2009. "It was simply a vote of confidence in what he's doing ...
College Board extends Bounds' contract until 2016WTOV Steubenville
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The World's Richest College Dropout Urges Colleges to Stop Dropouts
The Atlantic
Who, if not Gates, the world's wealthiest tech nerd and college dropout, as well as its most influential living philanthropist, has a bigger microphone? Most of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's work in the United States focuses on education, and ...
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School districts sign pact to improve college readiness, grad rates
San Antonio Express
Drawing national attention, superintendents of four local school districts vowed Thursday to follow an ambitious citywide plan to improve Latino college graduation rates by “implementing a college and career ready culture” that by 2020 would get 85 ...
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American College of Education Opens School of Advanced Studies
Sacramento Bee
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 15, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- American College of Education, one of the world's leading providers of online advanced degree programs for educators, announced today that it will now offer distinctive Ed.D. and Ed.S. degrees in ...
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Panel: Pa. colleges could get cash for meeting goals
Press & Sun-Bulletin
PHILADELPHIA — A commission charged with improving higher education in Pennsylvania has recommended that colleges and universities be able to earn additional state funding by meeting certain performance targets. The proposal by the governor's ...
Pennsylvania plan would tie new college funding to performance targetsPhiladelphia Inquirer
Governor's commission recommends higher education changesPittsburgh Post Gazette
Panel recommends cash for performance targets in higher educationPocono Record
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) -DigitalJournal.com (press release)
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Fiscal Cliff Threatens Research Funding, Education Grants, Leaving College ...
Huffington Post
NEW YORK -- The looming fiscal cliff could mean colleges and universities around the country -- both public and private -- will lose billions of dollars they previously received from the federal government. As the deadline approaches, presidents of the ...
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NBCNews.com (blog)
10 top universities unveil Semester Online, promising college credit in small ...
NBCNews.com (blog)
Although they were reluctant to say their model is a repudiation of MOOCs, several provosts of these institutions described it as a logical evolution of online higher education. The earliest online courses were provided “for credit by schools you [had ...
Online initiative to offer college courses for creditUSA TODAY
Washington University joins other colleges to offer for-credit online coursesSTLtoday.com
2U Partners with Top-Tier Schools to Offer Credit-Bearing Online CoursesCity Town Info Education Channel
Triangle Business Journal -Wake Forest University News Center -U.S. News & World Report
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Boston College Education Prof. Michael Barnett Named 2012 Massachusetts ...
Sacramento Bee
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass., Nov. 15, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Boston College Lynch School of Education Associate Professor of Science Education and Technology G. Michael Barnett has been named the 2012 Massachusetts Professor of the ...
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Christian Science Monitor
The untold story of Obama's youth vote victory
Christian Science Monitor
This November, 7 of 10 voters under age 30 had at least some college education. Their turnout rate was 66 percent, versus just 35 percent for young adults with no college experience, according to an analysis by CIRCLE, an independent research center ...
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Computerworld (blog)
Higher ed's high-tech headache
Computerworld (blog)
The challenges higher education institutions face are existential: Flat tuition revenues and increased debt from a massive brick-and-mortar build-out in the '90s have pinched budgets, while rising college costs, cuts in government subsidies and soaring ...
Make Varsity Education Affordable to AllAllAfrica.com
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