Tag: Technology: Page 56

Health

Grambling Wins $1.7 Million STEM Grant

Grambling State University has been awarded a $1.7 million, five-year grant by the National Institutes of Health to provide graduate degree opportunities to under-represented honors students.

June 24, 2013

Students

Report Urges Better Preparation, More Active Recruitment of Community College Leaders

National community college leaders joined Aspen Institute and the Achieving the Dream organization officials to urge major improvements in how two-year college presidents are recruited, prepared, hired and evaluated.

June 24, 2013

Disabilties

Overhaul to GED Exam Undermines Accessibility

The GED’s new computer-based format leaves some concerned that the change will marginalize lower-income individuals.

June 19, 2013

Community Colleges

Community College of Baltimore County Opens New Extension Center

The Community College of Baltimore County is opening a new extension center in Owings Mills.

June 18, 2013

Home

ETS Launches Electronic Certificates for Learning Assessment Exams

The Education Testing Service announced Monday that it has begun providing electronic certificates to test takers documenting their performance on the ETS Proficiency Profile and iSkills tests.

June 17, 2013

Leadership & Policy

Illinois University Employees Offer Partial Pension Fix

Illinois university employees would pay more toward their pensions and receive annual retirement-pay increases tied to inflation in a reform plan the Senate president supports, a spokeswoman said Sunday.

June 16, 2013

Students

Alabama A&M, J.F. Drake Reach Reverse Transfer Credit Agreement

The schools have entered into a reverse transfer credit agreement to enable Alabama A&M students who attended J.F. Drake to earn associate degrees.

June 13, 2013

Students

Arkansas Plans to Award More 2-Year Degrees

Arkansas education officials announced a plan Wednesday to award associate degrees to qualifying students who transferred from community colleges to universities but never got their diplomas.

June 12, 2013

Home

Diverse Conversations: The Failure of Higher Education

Growing up, many Americans are told that education is the doorway to happiness and a way to break the cycle of poverty and anti-intellectualism that pervades the country. Is it true?

June 11, 2013

African-American

St. Paul’s College Officials Say Closure ‘Temporary’

School will continue to implement a closure plan while it seeks another “strategic opportunity.”

June 3, 2013

Students

MOOCs Morphing Into a Path for College Preparation

The use of Massive Open Online Courses for high school dual enrollment programs and general access to college-level material is seen as potentially huge educational benefit.

June 2, 2013

Students

Higher Ed Systems in 10 States Turn to Coursera

The movement of “Massive Open Online Courses,” which began with elite universities making their courses available online to the masses, is rapidly moving into the trenches of public higher education.

May 30, 2013