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Fixing higher ed: Lumina's Jamie Merisotis
In a story that published Sunday in The Washington Post Magazine, I offer eight suggestions to "fix" higher education. After reading the story, you can rank the ideas in a poll, which you will find farther down on this blog....
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Daniel de Vise
| February 24, 2011; 5:52 PM ET |
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Fixing higher ed: StraighterLine's Burck Smith
In a story that published Sunday in The Washington Post Magazine, I offer eight suggestions to "fix" higher education. I will host a brief online Q&A on the fixes at 11 a.m. today. Click here to pose a question in...
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Daniel de Vise
| February 22, 2011; 9:40 AM ET |
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Survey: Community college students prize Internet access over teachers
Community college students have come to view online education as key to their success above all else, according to a new report billed as the first national survey of students in two-year colleges. Pearson Foundation hired Harris Interactive to survey...
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Daniel de Vise
| February 9, 2011; 9:49 AM ET |
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Survey: Nearly one-third of students studied online last year
A new report on online education concludes that 29 percent of college students took at least one course online in fall 2009, up from 10 percent in 2002. Online enrollment has risen from 1.6 million in 2002 to 3.2 million...
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Daniel de Vise
| November 17, 2010; 5:20 PM ET |
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Do for-profit colleges spend too much on bus ads?
A new report from a Senate education committee adds a fresh layer of data -- most of it critical -- to the debate over the wisdom of allowing colleges to operate for profit. The "Emerging Risk?" report emerged Thursday from...
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Daniel de Vise
| June 25, 2010; 9:10 AM ET |
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Is the future of higher ed in Fayette, Iowa?
Today's guest blogger is Dr. Alan Walker, president of Upper Iowa University. Upper Iowa enrolls 900 students on its Fayette campus and several thousand more in distance education, online and independent study. In that sense, the college and its president...
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Daniel de Vise
| May 21, 2010; 5:03 PM ET |
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