Actually, what buys that education is Berea’s $1.1 billion endowment, which puts the college among the nation’s wealthiest. But unlike most well-endowed colleges, Berea has no football team, coed dorms, hot tubs or climbing walls. Instead, it has a no-frills budget, with food from the college farm, handmade furniture from the college crafts workshops, and 10-hour-a-week campus jobs for students.
Welcome to the brave burgeoning world of online education. It’s a world
most of us, whether we like it or not, will have to grapple with, as
students, tuition-paying parents or employees. Nearly 3.5 million
college or graduate students, one of every five, took at least one online
course last fall, double the figures of five years earlier, according to a
survey of 2,500 campuses published last week in a collaboration among
the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the College Board and a Babson College
research group.
Tuition and fees at public and private colleges and universities rose at more
than double the rate of inflation, the College Board said in reports released
this morning.
But in academia these days, that person is less a subject of ridicule than
of soul-searching about what can done to shorten the time, sometimes
much of a lifetime, it takes for so many graduate students to, well,
graduate. The Council of Graduate Schools, representing 480
universities in the United States and Canada, is halfway through a
seven-year project to explore ways of speeding up the ordeal.
Once, all professors spent entire classes talking nearly nonstop while
students furiously scribbled notes. Today, a growing number of
professors are abandoning that tradition, saying there are better ways to
keep students focused and learning.
This group is for students and community participants involved in the
Learning From YouTube media studies class at Pitzer College in Claremont,
CA.
Here's a dream-come-true for Web addicts: college credit for watching
YouTube. Pitzer College this fall began offering what may be the first
course about the video-sharing site. About 35 students meet in a
classroom but work mostly online, where they view YouTube content
and post their comments.
More students than ever have started master’s programs this fall, and
universities are seeing those programs as potentially lucrative sources of
revenue. The number of students earning these degrees around the
country has nearly doubled since 1980. Since 1970, the growth is 150
percent, more than twice as fast as bachelor and doctorate programs.
College administrators say public universities are increasingly tacking on
fees for the same reasons that some are experimenting with differential
tuition for different majors: state support for higher education has
languished, and legislatures shy away from approving tuition increases.
Fees can often be set by individual campuses.
New York’s attorney general is opening an inquiry into the relationships
between universities and providers of study abroad, delivering
subpoenas to five providers on Wednesday with more to come, a senior
lawyer in the office said.
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Actually, what buys that education is Berea’s $1.1 billion endowment, which puts the college among the nation’s wealthiest. But unlike most well-endowed colleges, Berea has no football team, coed dorms, hot tubs or climbing walls. Instead, it has a no-frills budget, with food from the college farm, handmade furniture from the college crafts workshops, and 10-hour-a-week campus jobs for students.
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