by Sarah Green | Sep 24, 2014 | News
On September 10th, University of Iowa President Sally Mason announced an ambitious proposal to the Iowa Board of Regents that would offer three-year bachelor’s degree programs to Iowa students. These new options would be available to students who would begin their...
by Sarah Green | Jun 20, 2014 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
According to a recent research report by the US Department of Education, over 25% of college students took at least one of their courses online in 2012. Of the US’s 21.1 million enrolled college students, 2.6 million took classes exclusively online. This follows 2.8...
by Sarah Green | May 19, 2014 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Across colleges around the United States, students have been proposing ‘trigger warnings’ for the materials they will be reading, watching and/or discussing. A ‘trigger warning’ is an alert on explicit materials that may upset some students. These can include scenes...
by Sarah Green | Apr 28, 2014 | News
According to a new study, education could be associated with improved recovery after traumatic brain injury. Researchers from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine found that people who had some college-level education were more likely to go back to work or school...
by Sarah Green | Apr 21, 2014 | Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Many students entering college directly from high school feel intimidated. Most worry about the expectations of what they need to retain from high school in the fields of math, science and history. It might surprise you to discover that it isn’t what you know, but how...
