Toxic technology: How social media is making us dumb, angry — and addicted
A few years ago, I noticed that I really enjoyed reading on airplanes and wondered why.
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The college that became a prison
As Yankton College’s only full-time employee, Jan Garrity knows how tough running a postsecondary institution can be. There are students to educate and degrees to confer; faculty and staff to hire and pay; a campus to maintain and a mission to uphold.
Many college students are too poor to eat
A recent federal watchdog report about the breadth of food insecurity on America’s college campuses came with a caveat: “Nationally representative survey data that would support direct estimates of the prevalence of food insecurity among college students do not exist,” the Government Accountability Office wrote in the report to lawmakers.
Few college-bound students use Iowa’s $290,000 application tool
In the name of efficiency, Iowa’s Board of Regents spent $290,000 on a project to help prospective students submit just one application to be considered at all three of the state’s public universities, but few have used it — including just 66 for this fall’s semester.
Nevada State College offering $2,000 for official fight song
Colleges, schools and even individuals everywhere have fight songs, those tunes listened to for a boost of grit and tenacity.
6 mobile-friendly donation actions for fundraising success
How strong mobile giving platforms and social media promotions can fuel your advancement campaign
U.S. investment in African university fails as China advances
When the U.S. government’s private-investment arm teamed with New York-based real-estate investor W.P. Carey Inc. to finance the expansion of a prestigious university in Ghana, it was meant to demonstrate a novel for-profit funding model for development projects in Africa.
ED had hand in college chain’s collapse, documents show
Dream Center Education Holdings, a subsidiary of a Los Angeles-based megachurch, had no experience in higher education when it petitioned the federal Education Department to let it take over a troubled chain of for-profit trade schools.
Australian Universities face foreign influence probe amid China contract revelations
The government has ramped up scrutiny of universities' compliance with newly introduced foreign influence laws following revelations about China's authority over Confucius Institute education centres on Australian campuses.
Lots of college students drop out. There are degrees of success in preventing it.
I once worked with a young woman who was smart, kind and industrious. Her success seemed assured, except for one thing. She had to drop out of college and could not afford to get back in.
