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…
Graduate students should have more of a voice…
People often speak about “getting a seat at the table”: accessing places where decisions unfold. Academe has its own tables, and it matters who sits at them and, even more, who does not. As doctoral…
Report on Community Colleges With a Focus on…
Ithaka S&R has published a report on efforts by community colleges to focus on students. The report is based on interviews with 37 chief academic officers, chief student affairs officers, library directors, faculty members and…
Students report mixed feelings about virtual job recruiting
Virtual recruiting is both a relief and a concern to college students, who feel mixed emotions as employers, colleges and universities have had to scramble to shift job fairs online amid the pandemic. That leaves…
Combating Cheating in the COVID Era: The Key…
Are more students engaging in academic misconduct now than is normally the case? Should colleges be turning to proctoring services and lockdown browsers to fight cheating? Or are they better off encouraging instructors to assess…
Higher ed needs new federal regulation that limits…
“We need the federal government to put a cap on merit aid,” I said nervously to a representative from the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Why I said that, and his response, highlight one…
One-Third of Students Seek Counseling for Pandemic Effects
About one-third of students who sought care from their college counseling center during the second half of 2020 said their visit was related to the mental health effects of the coronavirus pandemic, according to new…
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…
Criminal justice education needs to change, and the…
Watching the attacks on our Capitol on Jan. 6 and the stark contrast between the treatment of white seditionists that week and Black people protesting last summer, every honest observer can see that the current approach…