Active learning relies on experience more than space
Penn State’s Kyle Bowen says experience takes priority over space as students and instructors embark on more active approaches to learning
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GAME OVER: RAs call the COPS on students playing video game
Resident assistants called the police on a group of University of Maryland students playing the video game “Quiplash.”
Anger as US funding for fetal tissue research curtailed
Private funders and charitable foundations urged to support vital studies
Hampshire College ‘in danger’ of having accreditation withdrawn
New England’s regional accreditation body for higher education has voted to issue a public notation that Hampshire College is “in danger” of being found in violation of the agency’s standards, though it has deferred formal judgment on the school’s status until November.
Is College worth it? Yes
New study shows that, from a financial standpoint alone, earning a bachelor's degree is on average a sound investment.
Nearly a dozen U.S. senators sponsor campus free speech resolution
A campus free speech resolution hit the Senate floor on 2019.
Millions of Chinese students sit national college entrance exam
China's annual college entrance exam, known as the gaokao, began Friday as an estimated 10 million students sat the critical exam needed to pursue their higher education.
College Students Enlist in Fight Against Looming Abortion Restrictions
Despite restrictive abortion legislation adopted in Georgia and other states, local abortion-rights advocates are making sure college students understand the new ban is not yet in effect and encouraging them to join efforts to fight the prohibition.
Senate Negotiators Slog Through Higher Education Act Updates
DON'T EXPECT TO SEE A draft anytime soon of the Higher Education Act rewrite that Sens. Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray have been negotiating for the last three months.
