“The United States has a problem: rapidly rising student debt. It also has a solution: online education. The primary reason for spiraling student debt is the soaring costs of a college education at a physical college …” (more)
[Zachary Karabell, The Atlantic, 17 May]
“Bono’s daughter Eve Hewson will receive a degree from NYU at next week’s graduation ceremony, but the U2 frontman will not. We hear Bono politely turned down an offer to accept a graduate degree from the school …” (more)
[New York Post, 15 May]
“Today we are proud to welcome Yale University to Coursera’s network, bringing the total number of educational partners offering courses on our platform up to 70 …” (more)
[Coursera Blog, 15 May]
“A spokesman for University College Dublin’s American football team has defended his team’s decision to wear jerseys worn by Pennsylvania State University last season, despite the scandal surrounding the institution …” (more)
[TheJournal.ie, 15 May]
“… Well, talk to scientists, and to research universities and government laboratories, if you want to hear about damage. I haven’t yet got the stomach to write about the gut-wrenching destruction I’m hearing about across my own field of particle physics — essential grants being cut by a quarter, a third, or altogether …” (more)
[Matt Strassler, Of Particular Significance, 15 May]
“A prominent Harvard University historian, Niall Ferguson, has been apologizing for statements he made that John Maynard Keynes didn’t care about future generations because he was gay and did not have children …” (more)
[Inside Higher Ed, 15 May]
“… The crisis that is about to break out involves student debt and how we finance higher education. Like the housing crisis that preceded it, this crisis is intimately connected to America’s soaring inequality …” (more)
[Joseph E Stiglitz, New York Times, 12 May]
“On this blog we’ve tended to celebrate, rather than denigrate, diversity in higher education. While others fear that MOOCs and other forms of online learning will cheapen the product, we think that ‘education’, like ‘health care’, is not a homogeneous blob …” (more)
[Peter Klein, Organizations and Markets, 14 May]
“The combined endowments of the three top US universities alone is more than Britain’s entire defence budget. Luckily the risk of American invasion is still one of graduate students seeking a cheaper option, with old-world charm and brand name …” (more)
[Sophie Moullin, Spectator Blogs, 12 May]
“A new report finds hundreds of schools are charging low-income students obscene prices, even while lavishing tuition discounts on their wealthier classmates …” (more)
[Jordan Weissmann, The Atlantic, 12 May]
“Before anyone interprets this blog as an exercise in sour grapes, let me state for the record that Rochester Institute of Technology, where I serve as President, has recently (in various print and online publications) been ranked 27th in the world in engineering, 11th in the world and 2nd nationally in industrial design …” (more)
[Bill Destler, Huffington Post, 10 May]
“If the devil were to conduct an experiment into mankind’s ability to resist temptation, it would look something like Stanford University. It is built in one of the world’s most agreeable climates and everyone dresses as if they have just stepped off the beach …” (more)
[Fraser Nelson, Spectator Blogs, 10 May]
“Here are the top 20 US departments according to the ‘academic reputation’ survey they allegedly conduct – they provide no information on how many responses they got, from where, who the evaluators were, etc – the results are a hodge-podge of ‘halo effect’ of university name (I am told they only ask about university names, not actual faculty lists) …” (more)
[Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog, 10 May]
“Because newly-minted PhD graduates far outweigh the number of tenure-track positions (read about the sobering statistics here), many will have to travel if they want a job in academia …” (more)
[Randy Clemens, 21st Century Scholar, 10 May]
“Yesterday President Barack Obama issued an Executive Order requiring federal government information to be open and machine-readable by default. This Order is the latest in a series of actions going back to 2009 in support of increasing access to and transparency of government information …” (more)
[Timothy Vollmer, Creative Commons, 10 May]
“Submitting a paper to a new open access journal can be a risky venture: More and more companies are popping up with an offer to publish a report for a fee but deliver less than expected …” (more)
[Jocelyn Kaiser, ScienceInsider, 9 May]
“The Massachusetts university where one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects attended is restricting the number of people who can attend this weekend’s graduation ceremonies as colleges and universities around the country tighten security for commencement in reaction to the deadly April 15 attack …” (more)
[Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 9 May]
“Deputy Seán Kenny asked the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken in the US to attract third level students to come here to study …” (more)
[Dáil Éireann Written Answers, 7 May]
“More than 800 million people worldwide use the social networking site Facebook, and 93% of college students have an active Facebook account, according to a recent estimate …” (more)
[AlphaGalileo, 1 May]
“Lisa Beach endured two months of testing and paperwork before the student health office at her college approved a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder …” (more)
[Alan Schwarz, New York Times, 30 April]
