Jason Pratt / Flickr The reasons why women have outpaced men in earning college degrees has less to do with how schools are run and more to do with the fact that boys are less likely to put as much time and effort into their studies, Ohio State University professor Claudia Buchmann and her co-author write [...]
Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Jim Petro will retire from public service next year. In an announcement today, Petro set a “tentative” retirement date of Feb. 1. Petro was appointed by Gov. John Kasich in March 2011 to oversee Ohio’s state university system. Petro previously served as state attorney general and state auditor, among other [...]
When we teamed up with the Cleveland Plain Dealer to take a look at how Ohio’s statewide online schools perform, we found something that surprised us: A relatively small percentage of all online school graduates go on to any kind of postsecondary education. By postsecondary education, we mean two-year and four-year programs, as well as vocational programs. [...]
As we wrote earlier this week, there’s money to be made — and saved – in online education. That dynamic is playing out in some interesting ways. At Ohio University, one student says the pricing for digital access to learning materials is outrageous: We are expected to pay for digital access to something that fails to [...]
Gov. John Kasich’s next budget will be like a Banana Republic dress: tight and conservative. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports: …Administration officials say it was made clear to the [college and university] presidents that Kasich intends to offer up another tight, conservative budget early next year that probably won’t have as much money for higher [...]
Research at American universities helped give us radar, the computer, jet propulsion and the atomic bomb, even Viagra and the algorithm for Google searches, according to the National Academies. Falling federal and state funding and the dismantling of big corporate research labs mean that we’re less likely to see those kinds of useful — and highly profitable [...]
Scott Beale / Laughing Squid / Flickr Picking a college, and figuring out how to pay for it, is often confusing for students and their families, federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray told our colleagues at WKSU. Cordray said college-bound students crave “real numbers in a format that makes sense of a huge financial undertaking that [...]
401(K) 2012 / Flickr From the Dayton Daily News: More than $94,800 is missing or was illegally spent by employees of Wright State University’s Boonshoft School of Medicine through personal purchases, duplicate or fictitious claims for cash or gift cards for medical study participants and in petty cash withdrawals, according to a state audit released [...]
Keary O. / Flickr Norman Eckel was frustrated. By the winter of 2005, he’d been teaching business classes at Bowling Green State University for 26 years and felt that students “had gotten worse and worse” over the years, according to court records. So when a student walked into his 11:30 a.m. accounting class 15 minutes [...]
Tim Sloan / AFP/Getty Images Gov. John Kasich’s appointment of former pro-football player, current TV sports commentator and apparent college drop-out Stanley Jackson to a vacant seat on the Ohio state Board of Education led some of our commenters to ask: Should the people who serve on the state Board of Education have college degrees? Legally, [...]
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