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…
How This College Used Data to Keep Students…
Khamilah Nixon, 19, Georgia Gwinnett College studentKhamilah Nixon, 19, started her first year as an undergraduate at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) in fall 2020 in the middle of the pandemic. Navigating a virtual campus and…
Coursera plans to share wealth as university partners…
Image: The competition to help colleges and universities launch affordable online degrees and credentials heats up by the day -- literally. A few weeks ago, the online program enabler 2U announced a plan to buy edX,…
Advice for helping first-generation students succeed in graduate…
Category: Carpe CareersWe cannot assume that just because they successfully navigated their undergraduate years they will smoothly sail through graduate training, write Arnaldo Diaz Vazquez and Natalie Lundsteen.Editorial Tags: Career AdviceGraduate studentsShow on Jobs site: Image Source: A-Digit/digitalvision vectors/getty…
Campuses are far more than physical spaces (opinion)
Last summer, colleges and universities across the country sought to plan for the fall semester and make decisions about teaching and student life. An animating force behind all the conversations and strategy sessions was the…
A community college president visits students across New…
Image: Claudia Schrader, president of Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, N.Y., is getting ready for the day's meetings. She puts on a pair of bright-blue sneakers, a casual accent to her professional black sheath dress, and…
Colleges must continue to work to create inclusive…
For too long, colleges and universities have waited for students with disabilities to request accommodations before deciding to remove barriers to access and full participation that existed all along. Higher education’s response to the COVID-19…
Misinformation can be as contagious and harmful as…
At the end of August 2020, when around 1,000 Americans were dying from COVID-19 each day, I posted on my personal Facebook account a straightforward translation of the deaths statistic: averaged over 24 hours (86,400…
Ep. 50: A Better ‘Transcript’ for Learners and…
What skills, knowledge and abilities do students develop as they navigate through college? How do students themselves know, and how do institutions arm their graduates to show prospective employers what they know and can do?…