Welcome, listeners; I’m Shawn Brackett. Beginning today, the Daily Dose of Higher Education will transition to a summertime schedule as the Weekly Dose. You can count on us for the week’s news in higher education through the summer; we will return to the Daily Dose in September. In this week’s news, “Politecnico di Milano [...]
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Welcome to the Friday, May 11th edition of the Daily Dose of Higher Education for Breakdrink.com; I’m Shawn Brackett bringing you today’s news. “Alberta court rules U of Calgary violated students’ right of free expression” http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/calgary/infringed+freedom+speech+disciplining+Facebook+commenters+rules+court/6592844/story.html The Alberta Court of Appeal (the province’s highest court) has sided with University of Calgary students in their lawsuit [...]
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Welcome to the Thursday, May 10th edition of the Daily Dose of Higher Education for Breakdrink.com; I’m Shawn Brackett bringing you today’s news. “University of California System to Propose Raising Tuition for Fall 2012 by 6%” http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/09/MN421OF6QV.DTL Experiencing what its vice-president for budget calls the “worst funding crisis” in state history, the University of [...]
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Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio UT Permian Basin Offers $10,000 Degree Rising to a challenge given by Governor Rick Perry, UT Permian Basin will offer $10,000 degrees. Currently, a four year degree is $25,808. Students will have the option of chemistry, computer science, geology, information systems, or mathematics. UTPB will be [...]
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Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Howdy, I’m Shawn Brackett. Welcome to the Thursday, May 3rd edition of the Daily Dose of Higher Education for Breakdrink.com! In today’s news, “Syrian troops besiege Aleppo University, several students dead” http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/03/world/meast/syria-unrest/index.html Amidst continuing violence in Syria, armed government forces have killed at least [...]
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Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Hi I’m Julie Larsen and this is the BreakDrink Daily Dose for Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012. Louisiana State University System Fires President In a 12-4 vote, the Louisiana State University system voted to fire President John V. Lombardi. Critics claim the vote was swayed by [...]
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Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Hi I’m Julie Larsen, and this is the BreakDrink Daily Dose for April 20th, 2012 Texas Technical Colleges Putting Money on the Line Texas technical colleges are ready to propose that 45% of their operating budget be linked to the employment rates and salaries of [...]
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Howdy and welcome to the April 19th edition of the Daily Dose of Higher Education for Breakdrink.com! In today’s news, “Indiana Community College to Partner with Pearson for No-Instructor Courses” http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/04/19/pearson-partners-ivy-tech-self-paced-online-gen-ed-courses Pearson Education, Inc. announced this week an agreement with Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana to provide self-contained online courses. Students enrolled in [...]
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Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Howdy and welcome to the April 12th edition of the Daily Dose of Higher Education for Breakdrink.com! In today’s news, “University of British Columbia Overhauls Its Student Services Model” The University of British Columbia in Vancouver will implement a new model of services for [...]
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Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Hi, I’m Julie Larsen, and today is the Break Drink Daily Dose for Friday, April 6th 2012. Ohio State University Students Plan Sit In In response to “Long Live Zimmerman” being spray painted on the Frank W. Hale, Jr. Black Cultural Center, Ohio State University [...]
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