The demand for online higher education is strong, with nearly 61% of all undergraduate and 56% of postbaccalaureate students taking at least one course online (NCES, 2022). We suggest hybrid education can effectively incorporate both online and in-person learning to cater to a variety of learner preferences and support university enrollment. While not a panacea,…
Dr. Keith Curry likes to walk the campus of Compton College, the two-year school that he has led for the last 13 years — two as interim president and chief executive officer (CEO) and 11 as its permanent leader. On this January day, Curry — who grew up just a short distance from the college…
On April 23, 2024, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced a final rule (the “Rule”) increasing the salary threshold employers must pay to most exempt workers. Given the anticipated litigation over the Rule and the potential that the Rule is struck down, employers may be tempted to ignore this news. However, this approach is blind…
Home Daily News Harvard Law grad who sued over bar exam accommodations… Bar Exam Harvard Law grad who sued over bar exam accommodations loses in 2nd Circuit By Debra Cassens Weiss July 23, 2024, 8:39 am CDT A graduate of Harvard Law School can’t sue for denial of her full requests for accommodations while taking…
More than 330 healthcare organizations signed letters this week urging the White House and Congress to extend a telehealth prescribing flexibility that was introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic. Failure to extend this policy would cause millions of Americans to lose access to “critically important healthcare treatment,” the organizations wrote. In 2020, Congress waived a rule that…
Capacity needs to be adopted at the edge, though, and I think that’s critically important. And as we have distributed learning, don’t just look at the Wi-Fi access, look at how remote access and security are being covered as well in that context. On the data center side, obviously, those workloads are very different when…
This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on August 8, 2022 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! I probably shouldn’t admit this, but when I was just beginning my teaching career, I had one clear goal on the first day of class: scare the living…
There is no way to avoid hearing and seeing the devastating news about Western North Carolina. People have died; lost their loved ones; lost their homes; and have no power, water, cell phone or internet service. Towns are destroyed. Roads and bridges are gone. Although the news has focused on the larger western counties, cities…
(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) If you were suing a company, how much stock would the judge have to have in it before you became concerned about their impartiality? I’d put the limit at whatever the going rate of a nice steak dinner at Ruth’s Chris is, but even more conservative estimates should draw the…
Active learning isn’t just a buzzword. It’s a pedagogy proven to keep students motivated, boost test performance and improve course evaluation scores.1 And at a time where faculty are reporting ‘stunning’ levels of student disconnection and burnout, keeping students motivated can’t be overlooked. Not only does active learning help turn passive students into active citizens,…