Posts Tagged ‘College’
The Edvolution Continues: Western NE is Latest College to Graduate to University
by John O. Harney
April 18, 2011
Western New England College of Springfield, Mass., was awarded "university" status by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education and will change its name to Western New England University on July 1, 2011.
Why the name change? Western New England will develop a Ph.D. program in Engineering Management to join its existing Ph.D. in Behavior ...
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A New AP Style: The College Board Looks at Ways to Revamp Advanced Placement
by Christine Cassis
January 26, 2011
The College Board's Advanced Placement (AP) exams, often preceded by AP courses, have a reputation for spitting out an overwhelming amount of information, but that is about to change. The nonprofit, which also administers the SATs, says it will revamp the biology and U.S. history tests to give students the opportunity to learn the materials, ...
Read MoreTags: "Race to Nowhere", Advanced Placement, AP exams, biology, christine cassis, College, College Board, college credit, exams, history, Standard Aptitude Test, U.S. history | 1 Comment
College Labor Shortages in 2018?
by Paul E. Harrington and Andrew M. Sum
November 8, 2010
The Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce has engaged in a highly publicized campaign claiming that the nation will face a very substantial deficit of college graduates by 2018 if the American postsecondary system fails to rapidly expand the number of college degrees it awards each year. Indeed, the employment ...
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The Profit Prophets in Higher Education
by Jay A. Halfond
September 30, 2010
The nation seems to have suddenly awoken to the reality that for-profit academic institutions are a force to be reckoned with. For so long, they have been ignored as inconsequential, second-rate competition, and vilified for their greed and lack of quality. Two events seemed to have changed their image into something far more formidable: the ...
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Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation
by Persis C. Rickes
June 22, 2010
The following is excerpted from “Make Way for Millennials! How Today's Students are Shaping Higher Education Space” by Persis C. Rickes, founder of the Massachusetts-based higher education consulting firm Rickes Associates. The full piece first appeared in Planning for Higher Education, the journal of the Society for College and ...
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