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Sports

Final Four of Urban Design Gives Students Real Life Experience

Final Four competition gives graduate students the opportunity to form their own multidisciplinary teams and come up with a “comprehensive design and development program for a real, large-scale site full of challenges and opportunities.”

April 3, 2016

Students

Expert: Higher Ed Needs to Embrace Assessments of Student Learning

Colleges and universities should embrace assessments of student learning in order to prove their worth as college costs rise and the job market remains tough.

March 31, 2016

Students

More Students Seeing the World Without Getting Credits

A survey found that roughly half of the 227 institutions responding reported an increase in the number of students who participated in non-credit education abroad for the 2012-13 academic year over the previous year.

March 30, 2016

Students

Group Calls Remedial Education ‘Bridge to Nowhere’

Complete College America, dedicated to improving graduation rates nationally, has dubbed remedial education a “bridge to nowhere” because the majority of students who begin remedial education never make it to credit-bearing courses.

March 29, 2016

Disabilties

Experts: Broadband Key to Boosting Higher Ed Access for Poor

A federal program that provides phone service to the poor could boost access to higher education if the program is upgraded to include broadband service, panelists said Wednesday.

March 23, 2016

Students

UMKC Takes Issue with Education Trust Report Conclusion

According to UMKC, the university is concerned primarily with providing full access to all members of the community, and that Education Trust’s numbers do not tell the full story.

March 23, 2016

Faculty & Staff

GREGORY E. TRIPLETT

GREGORY E. TRIPLETT has been appointed associate dean for graduate studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He was an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate director of the Honors College at the University of Missouri. Triplett earned a bachelor’s from Florida A&M University, a master’s from Florida State University and a doctorate from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

March 22, 2016

Leadership & Policy

Baccalaureate Degrees in Growing Demand at Community Colleges

The Innovations conference’s opening general session in Chicago on Sunday focused on the growing trend to offer baccalaureate degrees at select community colleges across the country.

March 21, 2016

Students

Meet the Teen Who Just Won $150,000 for Inventing a Device to Diagnose Lung Disease

California student Maya Varma has won the top prize for innovation at one of the nation’s largest and most prestigious high school science competitions, taking home $150,000 for inventing a new device to diagnose chronic lung diseases. “I’m so excited. I didn’t expect to receive an award, and it was such a surprise,” Varma said […]

March 16, 2016

Students

Poll: About Half U.S. Students Identify as ‘Hopeful’ and ‘Engaged’

Only about half of U.S. students are “hopeful” and “engaged” in school, while the rest are either not engaged or actively disengaged and stuck or discouraged, according to an annual Gallup Student Poll.

March 15, 2016

African-American

11 Higher Ed Institutions Uniting to Boost Minority Students’ Grad Rates

Eleven institutions of higher education are joining an Education Trust-led initiative meant to improve graduation rates for underrepresented minority students.

March 10, 2016

Women

White Privilege Undermines Diversity in Higher Education

Beyond institutionalized and internalized racism and classism, there is a cloud of entitlement that weighs heavy like a dense fog: White privilege.

March 8, 2016