‘Reverse
Transfer’ Project Aims to Ease the Way to Associate Degrees
A new project from the National Student Clearinghouse will aim to provide
an automated way for students who transfer from two-year institutions to
four-year institutions to receive associate degrees. The “reverse
transfer” initiative, which is funded by the Lumina Foundation, will
create a depository where the four-year college can send a student’s
academic data, which can then be downloaded by the two-year college. A
student who has acquired enough credits will receive an associate
degree.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 21, 2014
Half a million
jobs are coming to Washington, are we ready for them?
Thinking about taking a class to learn coding? Now might be a good
time. Economists project that Washington will add about 500,000 more
jobs by 2022 – reassuring news for a state that is one of the fastest
growing population wise in the country. It makes sense that as
population grows, so do jobs in response as people will need more
services. But Washington’s tech economy is giving the entire state a
boost. The fastest growing job in the past 10 years was software application
developers, which jumped by a staggering 227 percent to more than 52,000
workers in 2014, according to the Employment Security Department.
The Seattle Times, October 20, 2014
Benchmark
Survey Finds a Continued Rise in Giving to Colleges
Wall Street may have had a rough spell recently, but longer-term growth in
the national economy and strong gains in the stock market drove
fund-raising gains last year at universities and colleges across the
country. Many higher-education institutions reported sizable increases
in donations in 2013 as part of The Chronicle of
Philanthropy's Philanthropy 400, a report that tallies the giving
to 400 of the largest nonprofit groups in the United States. Over all,
gifts rose 10.8 percent in 2013 to those listed on the survey.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 20, 2014
Highly
educated, unemployed and tumbling down
In the upside-down, topsy-turvy world of jobs these days, even an advanced
degree can't protect some Americans from tumbling down the economic
ladder. The conventional wisdom that more education bears fruit in the
labor market gets turned on its head when it comes to unemployment. For
people with masters and even doctoral degrees, long-term unemployment is
especially insidious. At best, these formerly high-earning professionals
face the prospect of a years-long climb back to their former level of
income and stature, while they delay retirement to rebuild their decimated
nest eggs. Others won't be that lucky. Debt, foreclosure and evaporated
savings push them out of the middle class, and some just keep falling.
KING 5, October 19, 2014
College Brings
Opportunity, but Paying for It Offers Challenges, Fed Chair Says
Higher education is one of the “cornerstones” of economic opportunity,
Janet L. Yellen, chair of the Federal Reserve Board, said on Friday in
an unusual and closely watchedspeech about growing
inequality. But her remarks, given at the Federal Reserve Bank of
Boston, did not cast higher education’s role in an entirely favorable
light. The earnings premium of a college degree has grown, Ms.
Yellen said in her prepared remarks, and the “net returns for a degree are
high enough that college still offers a considerable economic opportunity
to most people.” But college prices have risen much faster than family
incomes, she added. College affordability and growing student debt present
challenges, especially for the less-well-off. “I fear,” Ms. Yellen
said, ”the large and growing burden of paying for it may make it
harder for many young people to take advantage of the opportunity higher
education offers.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 17, 2014
Underemployment
Hits Recent Graduates the Hardest
Stories of college graduates working as baristas and taxi
drivers have played into a narrative about how college-degree
recipients are struggling to find work that uses their education. At the
same time, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the jobless
rate for workers with at least a bachelor’s degree fell to 2.9 percent for
the month of September. How can both be true? Many of those with jobs are
considered “underemployed,” since they are in jobs that don’t require a
college degree.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 17, 2014
As Ebola Fears
Touch Campuses, Officials Respond With an ‘Excess of Caution’
Colleges across the country faced Ebola scares this week that sent at least
one graduate student to the hospital, several employees into quarantine,
and untold numbers of students into an unnecessary panic. The
widespread fear that has gripped the nation since two health-care workers
in Dallas contracted the Ebola virus from a Liberian man who died there on
October 8 has campus officials performing a delicate dance. On the one
hand, they want to take extra precautions when there is even a remote
chance Ebola might find its way onto their campuses. On the other hand,
they’re trying to avoid what a University of Wisconsin epidemiologist
called "hysterical reactions that are not based on science."
The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 17, 2014
Gender Gap in
IT Security
Women who rise to the position of chief security information officer are
already a rare sight in higher education, but over the next decade and a
half, they may become an endangered species.
Inside Higher Ed, October 17, 2014
Study: Cadavers
Better Teaching Tool Than Computers
A new study in Anatomical Sciences Education finds that cadavers
are more effective than computer simulations in teaching anatomy.
Inside Higher Ed, October 17, 2014
Blackboard
Announces New End-of-Life Date for Angel
Blackboard will stop supporting the learning management system Angel, which
the company acquired in 2009, on Oct. 15, 2016, according
to Pennsylvania State University. Blackboard had plans to drop support
for Angel in October 2014, but chose in early 2012 to extend support
indefinitely.
Inside Higher Ed, October 17, 2014
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