ASU will offer a freshman year program – all online – that will likely be fully transferrable and will cost around $6000. This latest iteration
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And then there were 46
Sweet Briar College in Virginia announced it is closing. According to its Wikipedia entry, it had an endowment of $88 million, academic staff of 64
Is "fix education by starving it" an idea whose time has gone in California?
Nice to see a political analysis of California’s higher education problem. Higher Ed Austerity as political offspring of a failing coalition. (h/t, KTS)From Inside Higher
Two Years of Free Community College for Every American???
President Obama will propose free 2 years of community college for all in his State of the Union Whitehouse page with 2 minute presentation by
An Animated Lecture About Education
You could do a lot worse things with the next 11 minutes than watching this video. I’m very intrigued by the genre it represents: taking
The Heavy Lifting in Higher Education
A great profile of community college instructor doing the hard work of making a difference in students’ lives. From the New York Times 21 December
