Higher Education

Calling President Obama “professor” is proving to be a surprisingly effective tactic for his conservative detractors. According to an article by Jack Stripling at Inside Higher Ed: Obama’s years on the University of Chicago’s faculty have proven a double edged sword. While his supporters accept his higher education experience as evidence of a thoughtful pragmatism, […]

Despite recent cosmetic changes, it is still very difficult for students to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FASFA) . For more than two decades College Goal Sunday has relied on volunteers to help low-income high school students complete the form. According to an article in Youth Today: The program – which […]

As should be pretty clear by now, California higher education is hurting for cash. Online education has potential to greatly reduce the cost of college. And Kaplan, Inc. knows a good deal when it sees one. What does this all mean? Well, according to Business Wire: Kaplan University and the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office […]

In an odd move, Ohio Wesleyan University has chosen Sen. John McCain to deliver its 2010 commencement address. According to the press release: McCain… will discuss the importance of character and service when he delivers the keynote address at Ohio Wesleyan University’s May 9, 2010, commencement ceremony. Jeffrey Thongsawath, Ohio Wesleyan senior class president, said […]

People are very bad about planning for college. According to a report, “Planning for College: A Consumer Approach to the Higher Education Marketplace,” by MassINC, a Massachusetts think tank, paying for college is not only expensive, but incredibly complicated. This might explain why no one does it very well: Choosing the best savings plan is […]

On January 31 Williams College announced it was giving up on its no-loans policy, saying: “We are operating in unsettled and, for us all, unsettling times. It now seems prudent to reintroduce modest loans for some aided students, beginning with the class that enters in the fall of 2011.” Apparently it was not the last […]

As the College Guide reported last week, student loan corporations are lobbying hard to prevent direct lending, arguing that the change in student loans will put Americans out of work. Well not that many Americans. According to an article in the Scranton Times-Tribune: The industry contends that the direct loan program would cost jobs, including […]

According to an article in Business Week the Gates Foundation has essentially announced its support for online education strategies: In his 2010 annual letter, recently posted to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation website, Bill Gates makes a pretty strong case for incorporating different elements of the Internet — specifically, online video and interactive lessons […]

Students at John Carroll University, a Jesuit college in Cleveland Ohio, staged a sit-in on February 3 during a break in the school’s basketball game against Mount Union College. The John Carroll students were protesting the university’s decisions not to include the protection of sexual orientation of in its anti-discrimination statement. Watch a video of […]

The University of Southern California (USC) has given a middle-school football quarterback from Bear, Delaware an athletic scholarship. The Wilmington News-Journal reports that: Friday morning was like no other for [David] Sills, the 13-year-old seventh-grader at Red Lion Christian Academy who Thursday night sent shockwaves through the sports world. Sills had made verbal commitment to […]