Posts Tagged with "Higher Ed"

California Senate Panel Mulls Course Outsource

Thursday, April 25, 2013

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INSIDE HIGHER ED.  APRIL 25, 2013.  California’s Senate education committee is expected to vote next week on a newly amended plan to allow online courses from unaccredited providers to count for credit at the state’s three college and university systems. …Continue reading »

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California Senate Panel Mulls Course Outsource

Thursday, April 25, 2013

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INSIDE HIGHER ED.  APRIL 25, 2013.  California’s Senate education committee is expected to vote next week on a newly amended plan to allow online courses from unaccredited providers to count for credit at the state’s three college and university systems. …Continue reading »

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Under Plan, California Would Embrace Performance-Based Funding For Colleges

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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INSIDE HIGHER ED.  APRIL 23, 2013.  California would move aggressively into performance-based funding for higher education under a draft plan being circulated by Governor Jerry Brown, the Los Angeles Times reported. Under the draft of a revised budget blueprint for higher education, …Continue reading »

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Credit Without Teaching

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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INSIDE HIGHER ED.  APRIL 22, 2013.  Earlier this year Capella University and the new College for America began enrolling hundreds of students in academic programs without courses, teaching professors, grades, deadlines or credit hour requirements, but with a path to …Continue reading »

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New Bid for Tiered Tuition at California 2-Year Colleges

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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INSIDE HIGHER ED.  APRIL 22, 2013.  The idea of tiered tuition at California community colleges draws strong opposition from students, and the new system chancellor has come out strongly against the concept, but it keeps coming back. Legislation has been introduced to …Continue reading »

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EdX Rejected

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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INSIDE HIGHER ED.  APRIL 19, 2013.  After months of wooing and under close scrutiny, edX was rejected this week by Amherst College amid faculty concerns about the online course provider’s business plans and impact on student learning. Amherst professors voted …Continue reading »

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Major Higher Ed. Community Developments on State Authorization

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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The higher education community continues to make significant progress toward addressing the problems of distance education state authorization through the development of a state authorization reciprocity proposal. The Commission on the Regulation of Po...

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Bill to Create ‘New University of California’ Dies

Thursday, April 18, 2013

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INSIDE HIGHER ED.  APRIL 18, 2013.  A bill is dead to create a fourth college system in California to award credit and degrees to students but offer no courses, according to the head of the state Assembly’s higher education committee. …Continue reading »

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Regulating Distance Ed

Friday, April 12, 2013

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INSIDE HIGHER ED.  APRIL 12, 2013. Institutions that offer online education programs should not be forced to answer to regulators in each and every state where they enroll students, according to a group led by the former U.S. Education Secretary Richard Riley. …Continue reading »

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Pell Spending Continues to Decline

Friday, April 12, 2013

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INSIDE HIGHER ED.  APRIL 11, 2013.  Federal spending on the Pell Grant Program declined slightly during the first half of the 2012-13 award year compared to the same period during the previous two years, according to new data released by the American …Continue reading »

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