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BlogHighEd
Link: The Journal of Higher Education Web Professionals - Association News
HighEdWeb debuts a Leadership Academy this October, designed to help develop the skills of those responsible for directing Web operations at their college or university via interactive learning experiences in a small group setting. What is leadership, th...
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University Business
Arkansas Delegation Announces Over $6 Million for Seventeen Arkansas Colleges, Universities
.S. Senators Mark Pryor and John Boozman, along with Congressmen Rick Crawford (AR-1), Tim Griffin (AR-2), Steve Womack (AR-3) and Mike Ross (AR-4) announced that seventeen Arkansas colleges and universities will received a combined $6,459,878 in Upward...
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Arkansas Times
The crush of college debt
The New York Times today undertakes a major look at the enormous increase in college loan debt. The new financial reality for colleges has left administrators scrambling to maintain academic quality and all-important rankings with diminished state resour...
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Herald & Review
Richland grad successfully juggles single motherhood, student trustee duties
DECATUR — Paula Wood has worked hard to get to where she is today, and at 42, as she prepares to graduate from Richland Community College with her associate degree in business and marketing, the effort is paying off. “A lot of really positive things have...
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KATV
10 Ashdown students sickened by powdery substance
A coroner in eastern Arkansas says a former Helena mayor has died of an apparent accidental gunshot wound.More >> A coroner in eastern Arkansas says a former Helena mayor has died of an apparent accidental gunshot wound.More >> A group of universities cl...
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Arkansas Matters
ASU Grad Gives School Its Largest Ever Scholarship Endowment
Arkansas State University has announced the largest endowment donation in its history - a $5 million estate gift from alumnus F. O'Neil "Neil" Griffin to establish the Griffin Scholars Endowment Fund. Griffin is a Texas businessman and chairman of the pr...
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Arkansas Online
Foundation chief urges higher-education push
LITTLE ROCK Colleges and universities, employers and policymakers should work together to increase rates of higher-education attainment in the U.S., a policy advocate said Monday in Little Rock. “Increasing post-secondary educational attainment is in ev...
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10news.com San Diego
AP Classes, Exams Used To Raise Standards
SAN DIEGO -- Not long ago, Advanced Placement exams were mostly for top students looking to challenge themselves and get a head start on college credit. Not anymore. In the next two weeks, 2 million students will take 3.7 million end-of-year AP exams --...
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Arkansas Online
Up 1 degree
TRI-LAKES AREA The atmosphere at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Benton Center is heating up by 1 degree after the Arkansas Department of Higher Education gave final approval for the university to offer a Bachelor of Science degree in e-comm...
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Rapid growth of Advanced Placement classes raises concerns
In the next two weeks, 2 million students will take 3.7 million end-of-year AP exams -- figures well over double those from a decade ago. With no national curriculum, AP has become the de facto gold standard for high school rigor. States and high schools...
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Rapid City Journal
Advance Placement surges as tool for schools raising standards
Not long ago, Advanced Placement exams were mostly for top students looking to challenge themselves and get a head start on college credit. Not anymore. In the next two weeks, 2 million students will take 3.7 million end-of-year AP exams — figures well o...
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The Tennessean
Fisk, TSU could use a leader like Walter Kimbrough
When Walter Kimbroughs black Buick LaCrosse minus the flashy rims, but with contemporary gospel still bumpin rolls up to the reserved for the president space at Philander Smith College, students know their hip-hop president is on campus. The Gen Xer ea...
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Arkansas Online
College-education costs to go up at UCA, ASU-Jonesboro
LITTLE ROCK The boards of the University of Central Arkansas and Arkansas State University-Jonesboro approved tuition and fee increases Friday, joining the state’s other public universities in adding to the costs they charge students. At ASU-Jonesboro,...
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Arkansas Online
Down with Algebra!
LITTLE ROCK IN ANOTHER brave step backward, Arkansas’ board in charge of coordinating higher education in this state has decided that algebra really shouldn’t be required for a college education after all. Yes, it’ll still be mandatory for majors in the...
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WTOP News
AP surges as tool for schools raising standards
(AP) - Not long ago, Advanced Placement exams were mostly for top students looking to challenge themselves and get a head start on college credit. Not anymore. In the next two weeks, 2 million students will take 3.7 million end-of-year AP exams _ figures...
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