Jesse Singal

From Inside Higher Ed: The U.S. Education Department published final regulations today carrying out a broad array of changes that Congress made last year made in student grant, campus crime and other programs in the Higher Education Act. The changes include guidelines for a year-round Pell Grant, increased reporting about fire safety, and the first-ever […]

“Walker” isn’t happy with my post questioning the fact that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave money to an online university to evaluate its own performance (note: I accidentally deleted the comment after pulling the text from it for this post, so I replaced it exactly as it appeared before): If you are going […]

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports on the uphill battle faced by Georgia’s public universities, which, for demographic reasons, have some serious outreach to do to Latino students: [R]eaching these students can be daunting. Recruiters and students face several obstacles, financial and cultural, including language barriers, teens’ desires to support their families, a lack of knowledge about […]

Well this doesn’t happen very often: The Eastern Washington University Eagles may fly into the playoffs this season after all. Tuesday, in a rare penalty reversal, the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Infractions Appeals Committee overturned a 2009 postseason ban that another NCAA panel had imposed on Eastern Washington’s football team. In February, the […]

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education reports that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation just gave a $1.2 million grant to the online Western Governors University to investigate whether online education programs can “improve completion rates for… low-income students and help them improve their economic status” “The study’s goal is to demonstrate that the WGU competency-based […]

The actual piece is behind a paywall, unfortunately, but a blog post over at The Chronicle points to an extremely provocative article: Is your administration using “the economy” as an excuse to extort more work for less pay from an already overburdened faculty? Buying Howard Bunsis a plane ticket to your campus might be the […]

I like this list of “Laws of Academic Life” from Sir David Watson, winner of the Times (U.K.) Higher Education’s 2009 Lord Dearing Lifetime Achievement Award. Here are a few of them: * Academics grow in confidence the farther away they are from their true fields of expertise (what you really know about is provisional […]

From The New York Times: Winston Chin hustles on Tuesdays from his eight-hour shift as a lab technician to his writing class at Bunker Hill Community College, a requirement for the associate’s degree he is seeking in hopes of a better job. He is a typical part-time student, with one exception. His class runs from […]

As this Inside Higher Ed article notes, Blackboard is, at the moment, the clear leader when it comes to providing e-learning tools. But a new partnership between The New York Times and SunGard Higher Education is going to at least make things more interesting: SunGard Higher Education is today announcing plans to integrate Epsilen, a […]

Inside Higher Ed passes along some interesting survey results: College presidents recognize the need for major changes in big-time college athletics but doubt they can do anything to bring about reforms, according to a new survey of campus leaders released Monday by the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics at a meeting to mark the group’s […]