Tag: Public Policy: Page 55

Faculty & Staff

MOOCs Viable for Community Colleges, Officials Say

In a webinar titled “MOOCs and the Completion Agenda: Lessons in Learning, Assessment and Application,” two community college leaders offered unique visions on how MOOCs could help two-year schools improve student learning experiences.

May 28, 2013

Leadership & Policy

Yale Fined $165K for not Reporting Sex Offenses

Yale University has been fined $165,000 by the U.S. Department of Education for failing to report four on-campus sex crimes in 2001 and 2002.

May 16, 2013

Sports

Education Leaders Convene for The Atlantic’s Technologies in Education Forum

Education experts explore how the latest education innovations can successfully be interjected into the classroom to prepare students for the workforce.

May 15, 2013

Community Colleges

Drug Abuse Issue Not Going Away Anytime Soon

While programs and money help, many of us in the old school believe that drug education really starts at home.

May 13, 2013

Faculty & Staff

HBCUs Must Rethink Holistic Operations

A structured approach to peeling back the layers of issues facing HBCUs is a reasonable way to proceed along the path to providing reasonable strategies for making lasting positive changes.

May 13, 2013

Disabilties

Interstate Reciprocity Plan Expected to Transform U.S. Distance Education

A prominent group of accreditors, regulators and other higher education and state leaders, has unveiled a comprehensive plan detailing how states could simplify and transform the regulation of U.S. distance education.

May 13, 2013

African-American

Sotomayor Makes Herself at Home at NYC Literature Festival

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has said she wants to be called just “Sonia from the Bronx.”

May 6, 2013

Students

CyberLearning Summit Highlights Jackson State University’s iPad, e-Textbook Initiatives

Jackson State faculty members, administrators and students took the opportunity to tout the university’s iPad and e-textbook initiatives.

April 25, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Navajo Tech Continues Its Ascension

A small college on the eastern edge of the nation’s largest American Indian reservation is getting noticed.

April 21, 2013

Opinion

In Era of Accountability, Let’s Use Proper Evaluations

Periodically, we will share Letters to the Editor that we feel will further shed light on the complex issues that abound in higher education.

April 15, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Advocates Say Ethnic Studies Misunderstood, Needlessly Under Fire

Ethnic studies are at risk because of budget restraints, conflicting views of purpose and negative attitudes toward academic programs that don’t automatically equal jobs for graduating college students.

April 14, 2013

LGBTQ+

Rand Paul Brings Republican Party Message to Howard University

U.S. Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., told a packed audience at Howard University that the party today offers African-Americans a path toward unencumbered opportunity.

April 10, 2013