Bowing to pressure from members of Congress and colleges, the Defense Department has agreed to postpone its January 1 deadline for institutions to sign a controversial new memorandum of understanding in order to remain eligible to receive military tuition assistance.
How to Get an MIT Education for Peanuts
It takes time to learn all the skills needed to be a successful founder, but there are low-cost shortcuts available, including MIT’s new online certificate program.
…Trying and failing at starter businesses is one way, so is going back to school for an expensive degree, but now there’s another lower-cost option to learn useful stuff, courtesy of MIT.… Continue reading
Community Colleges Struggle to Train Workers With Limited Funds
Business leaders depend on community colleges to offer work-force training, but high unemployment and state budget cuts have made it harder for the sector to do that work. That’s the message of a report released on Wednesday by the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama.… Continue reading
What Is College For?
Most American college students are wrapping up yet another semester this week. For many of them, and their families, the past months or years in school have likely involved considerable time, commitment, effort and expense. Was it worth it?
Some evidence suggests that it was. … Continue reading
College graduation rates: Income really matters
It’s getting more difficult for low-income students to climb the economic ladder as the college graduation gap between the rich and poor grows.
While more students from all backgrounds are finishing college, the difference in graduation rates between the top and bottom income groups has widened by nearly 50% over two decades.… Continue reading
5 Ways College Students Can Prepare for Finals
College finals week can throw even the most seasoned of college students for a loop. No matter how many times you’ve been through it, finals week is still a major pain in the brain. What is supposed to be the last lap of the semester often turns into a sleep-deprived, caffeine-fueled, stress-inducing cram fest.… Continue reading
Cuts in State Budgets Threaten Nation’s College-Completion Agenda
Cuts in state budgets are putting the nation’s college-completion agenda in jeopardy, says a new report by the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama.
The center surveyed members of the National Council of State Directors of Community Colleges, whose institutions’ main goals these days are graduating more students and adequately preparing them for employment.… Continue reading
I Don’t Know What to do With the Rest of My Life
This is a question that I hear all the time. And you know what? Very few high school students really know what they want to do when they grow up.
When I was growing up computers were something we had heard about but had never seen.… Continue reading
Obama-Singh Initiative for Indo-American Education
The number of Indian students enrolled in higher education including graduate programs is roughly 100,000, second to China’s nearly 200,000, but more than Korea’s. Almost 1/4 of all international students in the US come from these three countries. Yet, only 3,000 US students are studying in India.… Continue reading
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