Posts Tagged ‘University of Massachusetts Boston’
Bubble Wrap: Higher Education and the Value Gap
by Philip DiSalvio
November 20, 2012
A recent report by the College Board might be an indicator of how fast the sands of higher education are shifting. The prices that most people actually pay for college, which had remained stable for several years, are on the rise again, as tuition and other cost increases outpace financial aid awards.
In its latest annual ...
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Pardon the Disruption … Innovation Changes How We Think About Higher Education
by Philip DiSalvio
September 4, 2012
The first online course from MITx titled 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics, offered earlier this year, had more students than the entire number of living students who have graduated from the university. Indeed, that number is not far from the total of all the students enrolled there since the 19th century.
MIT reports that 155,000 people registered ...
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Native Tribal Scholars: Building an Academic Community
by J. Cedric Woods
January 23, 2012
When I first started as interim director of the Institute for New England Native American Studies (INENAS) based at the University of Massachusetts Boston, I was given three studies that broadly identified specific needs and disparities of Native people in the region. These studies looked at demographic data provided by the U.S. Census, tribes and ...
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MassBay CC Gets its Largest-Ever Grant; New Program Aims to Boost Haiti Partnership
by Shoshana Akins
November 5, 2010
MassBay Community College was awarded a five-year, $2 million grant under the U.S. Department of Education's Strengthening Institutions Program, which aims to help campuses serve lower-income students by enhancing academic quality, institutional management and fiscal stability.
The Wellesley, Mass. college also won approval of a three-year Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) grant from ...
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Private Sector Stimulated, While State and Local Govt. Jobs Stall
by John O. Harney
July 23, 2010
The U.S. economy added 882,000 jobs in the first six months of 2010, and 593,000 of them were in the private sector, according to the "Economic Snapshot" for July 2010 authored by Christian Weller, senior fellow at the D.C.-based Center for American Progress and associate professor of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts ...
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Add a Caption and Call It Accessible? Not so Fast!
by Alan Girelli
March 18, 2013
NEJHE on Models that Will Change Higher Ed Forever
MOOCs claim to make education accessible to everyone, but institutions offering MOOCs have yet to define best practices for accessible design. For many, universal design efforts end when course video material has been captioned. Captioning is important, but the idea that you can just caption course video ...
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