Robert Pearl Starks

The Cost of College Attrition at Four-Year Colleges and Universities is a report of the findings of the latest research from Dr. Neal Raisman regarding the causes of student attrition and the huge financial costs associated with student attrition. The report was published by the Educational Policy Institute in February, 2013.

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Kirsten and Anant talk about the impact of MOOCs on society and the workplace as well as first data points indicating the success of pure online learning vs. a blended approach.

EdTech Magazine interviewed CIOs who discuss tackling the cloud for use in Higher Education.

Highlights include: 

• In higher education, clouds still raise concerns about risk.
• A move to the cloud makes sense if there’s a chance to drive down costs and drive up functionality
• Participants include Case Western Reserve University's Lev Gonick, Indiana University's Dennis Cromwell, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Thomas Hoover and Wake Forest University's Nancy Crouch

Higher Education institutions are seeing lower enrollments and students are seeing rising costs for their education.  Some institutions are building branch campuses around the world to expand the offering of their educational programs in response to the current challenges they face with lower enrollments.  While this sounds like an enormous opportunity to capture a global market of students eager to study at American Higher Education institutions, there are also challenges to going global.  A diverse panel of experts discuss the opportunities and challenges of expanding American Education abroad.  

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The Rise of Phoenix: For Profit Universities Shake Up the Academy is a radio documentary from American RadioWorks Documentary

For-profit colleges have deep roots in American history, but until recently they were a tiny part of the higher education landscape. Now they are big players. More than one in 10 college students attends a for-profit. The rapid rise of these career-oriented schools has provoked heated debate, opening up new conversations about the costs, quality and purpose of higher education. In this documentary, correspondent Emily Hanford examines the history and influence of the University of Phoenix, one of the nation's largest… >>>

Great Podcast that highlights why employers are not happy with how prepared recent college graduates are for the job market.  

Social media is reorganizing the world as we know it.  It is changing the meaning of friend, building powerful virtual communities and even altering how we present ourselves to others.  This two part podcast discusses the impact social media is having on society and looks at new ways companies are seeking out, appealing to, and keeping their customers.  The positives and negatives of connectedness is discussed in these podcasts.

How Social Media is Shaping Us Part 1: 

How Social Media is Shaping Us Part 2: