Baylor University joined an elite group of universities when it was named to The Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2011 Honor Roll as one of the country’s “great colleges to work for.” Only 30 national universities identified by the Chronicle as “large four-year colleges” were awarded honor roll status.
Honor Roll designation was given to institutions that were cited most often across numerous recognition categories. The results, released in the Chronicle’s fourth annual report on the academic workplace, are based on a survey of nearly 44,000 employees at 310 colleges and universities throughout the United States. Approximately 20,000 of those surveyed were faculty members, about 15,000 were professional staff members, and about 8,000 were administrators, according to the Chronicle.
“This designation by The Chronicle of Higher Education informs the entire higher education community of something that those of us who serve at Baylor have long understood,” said Dr. Elizabeth Davis, executive vice president and provost. Full Post…
It looks like some of the investigations and lawsuits surrounding Kaplan University and its parent company are starting to get resolved.
Kaplan Higher Education, which has a large administrative presence in Fort Lauderdale, has agreed to pay $1.6 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit and two investigations involving the Kaplan-owned CHI Institute in Broomall, Penn.
Earlier this month, a federal judge dismissed another whistleblower lawsuit involving a Kaplan-owned school in Nevada.
The Pennsylvania lawsuit was filed in 2007 by David Goodstein, the former director of education at the Broomall campus. He alleged that CHI made false representations to students and to the government about a surgical technology program. Kaplan enrolled new students in the program, despite an inability to place them in surgical settings, the lawsuit alleged.
This led to investigations from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Pennsylvania and a program review by the U.S. Department of Education.
Under the terms of the settlement, Kaplan will pay $1.1 million to the U.S. A
Summer is the perfect time for rising high school seniors to catch up and move ahead in the college admissions process.
Here are some suggestions for maximizing your summer vacation:
Visit as many colleges as possible. Without the normal distractions of school, homework and extracurricular activities, most families are able to carve out time for at least a few campus visits. If time, budget and patience are at a minimum, I recommend this summer focusing on “reach” schools (colleges that would be difficult to be admitted to) and “target” schools, and saving visits to “safeties” (schools you’re sure you’ll be admitted to) for next spring, only if necessary.
Many NY progressive groups are becoming increasingly concerned over the contract granted to Wireless Generation by the NYState Education Department. Wireless Generation is an education technology company that was purchased by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. in November 2010. Murdoch hired former NY schools chancellor, Joel Klein, to be apart of News Corp’s Education Division in order to help with strategies he believes will transform the field of education. Klein and Murdoch both believe in Wireless Generation, which develops software and tools that track student test scores and modernizes data available to administrators and teachers. Many educators and progressive groups strongly agree that this program is faulty and ineffective.
According to Alter Net, these critics of Wireless Generation want the no-bid contract with the state education department to be completely overhauled. Many believe it is wrong that the company is able to access data about city students, including age, name ethnicity, and test scores. Par