Posted by Dan Galpin, Developer Advocate This blog post is part of a weekly series for #11WeeksOfAndroid. For each of the #11WeeksOfAndroid, we’re diving into key areas so you don’t miss anything. This week, we…
Guest Post: Looking Outside Academia for Insights on…
Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Our colleague Steven Mintz has been posting regularly in this column about how to improve teaching quality and effectiveness by systematically bringing to scale many of the innovations in Teaching and Learning which already exist within…
Data Highlight Internet and Device Access Disparities
Students of color, caretakers and students from low-income backgrounds are more likely to face barriers accessing fast and reliable internet and functioning devices than their peers, new survey data show. "Online Isn’t Optional: Student Polling…
Any measure of the value of higher ed…
As the need for a college credential in the labor market has grown, so, too, has the price of earning one and the debt that increasingly comes with it. It’s not surprising then that the…
Higher Education Gets a Crash Course in Online…
The University of Kentucky’s 2020-21 events calendar is filled like any typical school year’s: The 42nd Annual Kentucky Women Writers Conference welcomed attendees from around the nation. The UK Alumni Association celebrated homecoming. And to…
The Limits of Listening to Wonks
Blog: Just VisitingMy greatest asset in writing about higher education is my failure to secure a sustainable career in higher education. While I have great reverence for the purported mission of higher education institutions, the totality…
State funding for two-year colleges declined this year…
Image: States slashed financial support for two-year colleges by $457 million during the pandemic, while four-year institutions received a $256 million increase in support, a new analysis of state higher education appropriations shows. Federal stimulus funding softened the…
3 Questions for John Thelin, author of ‘A…
Blog: Learning InnovationJohn Thelin is the University Research Professor in History of Higher Education & Public Policy in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation at the University of Kentucky. You likely know John as…
Advocates hope for better data, requirements on colleges…
For years, researchers and higher education advocates have been frustrated by the lack of good Education Department data on how students of color and those with lower incomes are being let down by the nation’s…