Community colleges facing a 'capacity crisis', USA Today
With their low cost, open-door policies and mandates to serve local
needs, community colleges have prided themselves on being a key point
of access to higher education.
Students embrace the future, USA Today
A mother of three, a premedical student and Goldwater Scholar, Radford-Nelson
has been named to the All-USA Community and Junior College Academic
First Team, USA TODAY's recognition program for outstanding two-year
college students
A Different Course, New York
Times
You've seen the ads on billboards and the bus. They make the process
of getting a degree online look almost cozy: earn an M.B.A. in your
pajamas and fuzzy slippers. The reality is a little, well, blearier.
The Digital Doctorate, New
York Times
About 5,000 to 8,000 people are currently pursuing Ph.D.'s through online
programs at a dozen or so institutions, generally in health and human
services, business, education and psychology. Fields like laboratory
sciences are not far behind.
Nuts and Bolts, New York
Times
The timeline for online Ph.D. programs is roughly the same as at a traditional
university, four to six years, with a typical workload of 20 hours a
week.
Forget Socrates, New
York Times
The Concord Law School has no buildings or library, and its 1,600 students
listen to lectures, attend discussion groups, have ''teas'' with the
dean, hang out in the student lounge, take exams and submit essays entirely
online. After four years of this, they are eligible to take the bar
examination in California.
The B-School Hierarchy, New York Times
The job fair was sponsored by the MBA Consortium, a group of 16 business
schools that are good but a couple of steps down the B-school hierarchy.
Studying With Stanford-Columbia-Chicago*, New York
Times
Last fall, I decided I should learn a little theory-of-business-strategy
for a venture I was about to undertake, so I fired off e-mail inquiries
to e-Cornell, Cardean University and the University of Phoenix.
For-Profit Career Education Gives Universities Growth Lesson, Los Angeles
Times
Higher education of all kinds — a $290-billion-a-year enterprise
in the U.S., split between public and private colleges — has been
seeing rising enrollments thanks to the so-called echo of the baby boom.
At Some Colleges, Students Tax Themselves to Pay for Sports, Chronicle
of Higher Education
As most college administrators have discovered, sports are not getting
any cheaper. As a result, more institutions are turning to a captive
audience to raise money: students.
Getting the Best Students to Go Local, New
York Times
Just a few years ago, these college-bound students might have had far
less incentive to attend one of the Long Island universities, all of
which have suffered to varying degrees from reputations as commuter
schools of indifferent quality, not suitable for the best of the Island's
exceptionally large crop of high-achieving high school seniors.
