The Maryland General Assembly passed a sweeping reform bill that will affect online college operation significantly in thestate. When the bill is signed into law, online colleges will be forced to report enrollment numbers, no longer offer bonuses to the recruiters, and restrict state aid to online students. Additionally, the bill “forces for-profit colleges to pay back [...]
As states across the nation make cutbacks to remain above choppy financial waters, Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship’s cutback and reconfiguring comes as somewhat of a surprise to some. The HOPE Scholarship was always a merit-based award that used funds from the state lottery “to pay college tuition for students who maintain a B average.” Under the [...]
Many colleges and universities tout internships as the best way for students to gain the experience they need while still in school. However well-intentioned this seems, the author of a recent New York Times article, Ross Perlin, suggests that many colleges “are complicit in helping companies skirt a nebulous area of labor law,” and also [...]
Education budget cuts are a common occurrence these days as more states contend with massive debt and budget shortfalls for the next few years. However, the cuts are the most drastic in cash-strapped California, and hundreds of community colleges in the state are faced with the most dramatic cuts of all. There is a “predicted [...]
For the new generation of college graduates that will begin their job search this spring and summer, the biggest piece of advice that many human resource officers will share is this: Learn how to impress in a phone interview. In today’s economic climate, more and more employers are cold-calling job applicants after they receive their [...]
The pending arrival on July 1 of the new state-authorization rule will force any college that offers online degree programs or classes to “gain approval from every state in which they have a student.” This means that no matter the amount of students in a state, even as few as one, the college must earn [...]
President Obama has issued a call for more college graduates by 2020, and as higher education changes, nontraditional students will likely be the driving force in terms of reaching this goal. Nontraditional students are those students who are professionals earning another degree to advance their career, single moms and dads who are looking to improve [...]
The gap between technology and learning is closing by the minute and a few universities and colleges are taking the lead. Instead of teaching digital technology and say, Shakespeare, separately, they are now a uniquely combined course in Bryn Mawr College. Students at the University of Virginia “have produced a digital visualization of the college’s [...]
Earning an accelerated degree is becoming more and more popular these days and universities are starting to catch up with this trend. One of the most popular ones is the accelerated nursing programs that have been sprouting up to meet the demands for more nursing professionals. Right now, there are about 233 accelerated programs for [...]
Ivy Tech Community College in Tippecanoe County, Indiana received a generous donation from the Smith family, local college sponsors. The money will be used to start an accelerated degree program designed to allow students to complete their associate’s degree in one year instead of two. The executive director of resource development at Ivy Tech, Pat [...]