Case name: Cetin v. Kansas City Kansas Community College, No. 23-2219 (D. Kan. 10/29/24).
Case name: Cetin v. Kansas City Kansas Community College, No. 23-2219 (D. Kan. 10/29/24).
Case name: Niblock, et al. v. University of Kentucky, et al., No. 5:19-394 (E.D. Ky. 10/28/24).
Case name: Williams v. Coppin State University, et al., No. 1:23-cv-02590 (D. Md. 08/22/24).
Adult learners have more higher education options than ever — from degree to non-degree-bearing programs. Understanding whether adult learners still desire a four-year degree — and if so, why — the authors of a new white paper assert, is “especially important at a time of great enthusiasm about novel alternatives to college diplomas.”
In the previous two articles, I critiqued the negative impact of specific enrollment management practices during the past 40 years and outlined several recommendations made in the book Lifting the Veil to improve how students are recruited and how they finance their education.
Sherri VandenAkker, Ph.D., has taught adult learners since the mid-1990s, with more than two decades working in hybrid and online formats. She's a Professor of English at Springfield College in Massachusetts. I contacted her recently to discuss how artificial intelligence is changing writing and online learning. This conversation was conducted virtually through questionnaire and videoconference and has been edited for length and clarity.
Integrity is the heart and soul of any significant academic discourse. As attorney Ronald B. Standler (2012, 5) has observed: “Reputations in academia are made on the basis of creating new knowledge: discoveries of new facts, new ways of looking at previously known facts, original analysis of old ideas, etc. A plagiarist receives credit for expression or analysis that was improperly taken from someone else. In this view, the plagiarist commits fraud, by claiming the work of other people as the plagiarist's own work.”
It always interests me when TV interviewers ask well-known personalities what they read on their summer vacations.
Within two months of starting her new position as senior director of college and career success at Figure Skating in Harlem (FSH), Dr. Krystal C. Johnson had already scaled out the organization's curriculum for the academic year and developed lesson plans.
Case name: Letter re: Owasso Public Schools, No. 05-24-1363 (OCR 11/13/24).