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In February, I took a trip London where I spoke at the OBHE conference at a session called “Online and open-access learning in higher education: MOOCs, new pedagogies and business models.” It was actually a fairly lively discussion, debate, and driving conversation about the massive online courses coming out of North America and now beginning to come out of other parts of the world.
What interested me most was what seemed to be about 80% fear and 20% excitement by the...
Irvine, CA, May 15, 2013 – The Career College Lounge, the only social learning network dedicated to career college professionals, swells to over 40,000 members as faculty, management and staff of private sector colleges and universities look to social learning to enhance work performance, institutional effectiveness and student outcomes.
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It’s good to be king. Or at least, the president of a public university.
In its annual analysis, released Sunday, the Chronicle of Higher Education found that the median total compensation for public university presidents rose 4.7 percent to $441,392 in the 2011 to 2012 period. Four public university presidents now have total compensation worth about $1 million or more. The highest paid presidents on the list include Auburn University’s Jay Gogue ($2.54 million), Ohio...
WASHINGTON — Right after the election in November, it seemed that Congressional Republicans and the Obama administration had reached a rare policy consensus: both supported requiring colleges to disclose more information about graduates’ outcomes in general, and a bill from Senators Marco Rubio and Ron Wyden that would require the disclosure of salary data (among other statistics) in particular.
But the latest version of that bill, introduced Thursday, revives one of the...
About to graduate and worrying about your debt load? You've got reason for concern. More than half of all student loan accounts are currently deferred, according to a study from the TransUnion credit bureau.
In other words: Half of college grads aren't earning enough to make loan payments.
That's not the only scary stat. The average student debt load has gone up 30% in the past five years, and 33% of the nearly $966 billion in outstanding loans is owed by the...
