Topic: Colleges and Universities

How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education

Free online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks -- American higher education is changing.READ»

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The Dark Side? Responding to our September article on Nokia, readers raised the question of whether the company assisted the Iranian government with spying on citizens and arresting dissidents after the recent controversial ...READ»

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Rising Star: Green Dot Public Schools

Steve Barr, CEO Los Angeles, California greendot.org Green Dot Public Schools is leading the charge to transform public education in Los Angeles so that all children receive the education they need to succeed in college, ...READ»

Wilson vs. Woods

If you haven't yet read the Sept. FC "Open Debate" between Steven F. Wilson and George Wood regarding private sector involvement in (or in lieu of) public education, I'd encourage you to do so. I only wish to chime in with a comment ...READ»

For-Profit Universities Want Some Respect

For-profit higher-education programs are booming -- even Jack Welch has signed on. Can market-driven schools award online diplomas that graduates are proud of?READ»

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Diversity and Academia

With a rapidly increasing diverse population, US college classrooms ought now to begin filling up with higher numbers of minority students. With regards to matriculation, the academic environment, faculty, and staff will need to actively support this more diverse student body. Going forward, academic institutions cannot rely solely on the increasingly diverse demographic eligible for higher education. They must acknowledge and address the cultural and economic barriers that may prevent students of color and first-generation college students from pursuing a college degree, ensuring that the student body more accurately reflects the population that the academic institution serves. READ»

BONK College Game Show Bookings are Rolling - SPECIAL PACKAGE OFFERED FOR FALL CAMPUS EVENTS

That's right! The calls for the college and campus game show just keep coming.  The BONK Show will be making it's appearance at freshman orientation events, campus activity and fall sibling and parent events around the country. ...READ»

Does Branding Pay Off for Colleges? Harvard Thinks So.

It has taken a while for branding to seep into the world of higher education. Traditionally universities and colleges have not been staffed by professional marketers. There has been a revulsion toward the concept of Customers, in ...READ»

The Hard Life and Restless Mind of America's Education Billionaire

John Sperling was born dirt-poor, fell in with Communists, and became a union organizer who led a strike that ended in disaster. Today, he runs the world's largest for-profit university -- and a company whose shares are defying gravity on Wall Street. So why do so many smart people say such terrible things about him? And why does he relish their attacks?READ»

Peggy Williams -- A Unique and Authentic Personal Brand

If you want to create positive personal impact, you need to do three things: 1) Create, develop and nurture your unique personal brand; 2) Dress for success; and 3) Know and follow the basic rules of etiquette. Today I’d like ...READ»

The Top 10 Greenest U.S Universities

If you asked high school seniors 15 years ago whether sustainability mattered in their college decision-making process, few would answer in the affirmative. But as green-ness and sustainability continue to seep into the public ...READ»

Prepare students for what they want to do: examples of best-in-class courses that inspire invention and innovation

Gone are the days when undergraduate students learned theory without the opportunity to practice and apply the lessons learned.  Today, more and more students are attracted to, and inspired by, solving real world problems and ...READ»

Education: Pre-Collegiate Branding

The next generation of business leaders certainly won't struggle with the concept of personal branding. Personal branding has become crucial at an even earlier life stage: the increasingly high-stakes college admissions process ...READ»

Europe Loosens Digital Downloading Rules While U.S. Suffers Audible Magic's Wire-Sniffing

Yesterday Europe moved to smarten-up its legal music downloading rules to dissuade piracy, but today we learn that P2P illegal content-sniffer Audible Magic is being adopted by more U.S. universities--the punitive flip-side of the ...READ»

Talent - Jeff Daniel

"Lots of people think that they know how to recruit college students, but they don't have a clue."READ»

The Talent Magnet

Kai-Fu Lee, technologist and self-help guru, is a raging celebrity on Chinese university campuses. Now Google is paying him upward of $10 million to build its research lab in Beijing--and to tap into the future. READ»

Discontent Leads to Success

Thirty years ago, a man named Arthur Keiser embarked on a research study that never truly ended. While working at a state university, he saw a gap between what traditional universities were offering students and what students really ...READ»

The Leading Edge - A College Rejection is Not the End of the World...or Your Life

After the initial disappointment of not getting into their top choice wears off, most college students feel like failures not from the rejection. It comes from internalizing the feeling they have let their parents down. ...READ»

Debtor's Position

Debt. As a country we are drowning in it. Conventional wisdom states that you have to spend money to make money. How much and how quickly? With the change in the federal financial aid formula college students might have to take on ...READ»

Using Social Networking for Talent Recruitment and Training

Social networking such as Facebook, LinkedIn and others are now being used by recruiters to recruit talent and implement training.READ»

Japan Shuts Down Its Education Assembly Line

And Keio University is gearing up a whole new curriculum. The model: personalized, digitized, globalized.READ»

For-Profit Colleges and the Student-Loan-Default Gap

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University Blogging

On April 16 the Boston Globe reported that college admissions offices have begun to use student-written blogs as a medium to entice potential applicants. These blogs are not what you might think. They do not necessarily come off ...READ»

STEM and Science PhDs

Recently I was invited by Rich Feller of Colorado State University to give a presentation at a meeting about STEM careers--that is, careers that involve science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. Many observers of the American ...READ»

Miami Graduates are welcomed at Brickell Honda

If you have just graduated within the last 4 years or will be graduating within the next 4 months with your Associates, Bachelors, Masters Degree, or Nursing Certification from one of Miami’s local colleges such as FIU, Miami-Dade ...READ»