Archive for April, 2009
The Rise and Fall of the University E-Mail
It’s a proud moment for some, getting that school-sanctioned .edu-suffixed e-mail address. That pride, however, has become a diminishing return as years go by and more students enter college with addresses they’ve had forever and grown quite attached to. What’s a college to do? According to one article, a trend among colleges lately is to [...]
YouTube and Colleges Team Up For Free Online College Content
Popular online video site YouTube is making a bid to be the official site for video distance learning: it is partnering with over 100 prestigious colleges and universities for exclusive college course content under its subset YouTube EDU.
Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Yale and UC Berkeley are among the more than 100 schools that have [...]
OppenheimerFunds Takes Heat For College Fund Losses
Just last month we discussed problems arising with a form of investment called the 529 Plan, which claimed to secure the costs of a student’s future college tuition through a combination of savings and dividends. As it turns out, the floundering stock market has led to many of these plans coming up woefully short and [...]
The Weight of an Online Degree: Students and Faculty Discuss
With their ever-growing prevalence these days, many students are finding themselves weighing the pros and the cons of online colleges versus their brick-and-mortar counterparts. Are they worthy competitors, or does the former pale in comparison to the latter? Student reporters at Florida A&M University took to the campus streets to get some opinions on the [...]
Distance Learning Widens Doors at BYU-Idaho
Historically, one of the biggest drawbacks of good colleges has been the small classes necessary to facilitate their quality — the more a professor needs to stretch his or her personalized care and instruction, the more the class as a whole seems to suffer. This was the case at BYU-Idaho, with its nursing program only [...]
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