The Ohio Board of Regents voted in July to recommend public colleges and universities ban tobacco on all campus grounds. The regents can’t force schools to ban tobacco–they can only encourage them to do so. So it’s up to trustees at individual schools to decide if they want to enact tobacco bans.
MOOC’s, aka Massive Open Online Courses are changing the way Higher Ed views technology in the classroom. But some worry MOOC’s aren’t the cure Higher Ed needs.
Forty-one percent of college freshman in Ohio have to take at least one remedial course. That’s a class that essentially teaches what students should have learned in high school. The Board of Regents wants to reduce that number, and simultaneously save the state, universities and students money by eliminating remedial classes at the state’s four-year [...]
As the economy struggles to heal, college graduates find themselves working as barista’s at the local Starbucks instead of the high-powered, high-paying jobs they hoped for.
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