Obama Urged to Support Regulations on For-Profit Colleges and Student Debt

As the Department of Education gets closer to finalizing regulations that would hold for-profit colleges accountable for saddling students with debts they cannot repay, a wide array of civil rights, student advocacy and consumer groups wrote a letter to President Barack Obama recently urging him to immediately move forward with the proposed rule.
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As the Web Goes Mobile, Colleges Fail to Keep Up

When Laura Patterson, a junior at Nevada State College, had to wait two months for wired Internet access in her new apartment, she relied on her iPhone instead. “I used it to sign up for classes. I used it to check e-mails,” she said. “I used it all the time, for everything.”

Hand-held devices like smartphones and tablets are fast becoming the primary way many people use the Internet. Half of all college students used mobile gear to get on the Internet every day last year, compared with 10 percent of students in 2008, according to Educause, the educational-technology consortium.
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George Washington University Puts Its Name on Web-based High School

George Washington University has opened a private college-preparatory high school that will operate entirely online, one of the nation’s first “virtual” secondary schools to be affiliated with a major research university.
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What Degrees Should Mean

What should a college graduate know and be able to do? There are as many views on that as there are colleges (thousands), if not individual professors and students (many more).

To try to provide a shared understanding of what degrees mean—but without, its designers insist, turning that into a government or other mandate—the Lumina Foundation for Education recently released a draft of its Degree Qualifications Profile, created by four leading higher education researchers and policy experts.
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Register Today for DETC's 85th Annual Conference

The DETC’s 85th Annual Conference at the Williamsburg Lodge in Williamsburg, VA, April 3-5, 2011.Visit the Conference website for more information and to register!

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