The cutting of education funds by individual states is a contributing factor to the skyrocketing costs of higher education, according to an official from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
JPMorgan announced this week it will give $1 million to schools to improve higher education courses for United States military veterans.
In a press release, Maureen Casey, the director of military and veterans affairs for JP Morgan, said the money is meant to help veterans make the transition from serving their country in a military capacity to the working world.
Part of the recent White House summit on making higher education more fundable was driven by the theory of “undermatching” – the idea that high-achieving low-income students should strive to gain entry into elite academic institutions rather than local community or public schools.
A new film from documentary filmmaker Andrew Rossi investigates whether higher education is really worth the effort and cost of attaining a degree.
The film, “The Ivory Tower,” is directed by Andrew Rossi, who is best-known for his documentary, “Page One: Inside the New York Times,” about the disruption of the newspaper business by the Internet.
The wealthiest 85 people in the world have more money than the combined holdings of the 3.5 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world’s population, according to a new report.
The report illustrates why the World Economic Forum (WEF) finds income disparity to be one of the greatest risks to the global population in the next year or two. The WEF projects that increased disparity will undermine social stability worldwide.
In answer to President Obama’s call for better access to higher education for those with less money, experts gathered this month at a summit called the Education Datapalooza, hosted by the White House and the Department of Education.
In a blog post on the Department of Education website, Education Secretary Arne Duncan wrote that meeting was part of the president’s plan to make education affordable for every American.
A Stanford University professor has released a new book that investigates some of the possibilities that technology brings to the future of education.
Larry Cuban, a former high school social studies teacher and professor emeritus of education at Stanford, has released a book called, “Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice: Change Without Reform in American Education.”
Unlike many professions, those who enter business will often enter the work world after earning an under graduate degree, only to return to school later for graduate school.
This creates a situation where graduate school students have great experience , having spent years in the workforce, learning how ideas learned in school are applied in the real world. However, going back to school can often be a difficult transition, according to an article from U.S. News & World Report.
The University of California, Los Angeles, has the most driven students in the country, based on a report from the company Views On You.
The company, based in London, gathers information from students to help match them with the companies that best match their skill sets.
The company bases a person’s personality on three factors – energy, which gauges how you work; interpersonal, which gauges how you interact with others; and intelligence, which gauges how you think.
A new report shows that more private college president than ever are making $1 million-plus salaries at a time when the expense of higher education is keeping many people out of school.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that 42 private college presidents had earnings that topped $1 million in 2011, the latest available figures available. That was a 36% increase from the 2010 level.
