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Course-sharing? Make sure you follow these 4 quality assurance checks

University Business

Thankfully, Quality Matters, a nonprofit organization focused on online and blended learning, has developed a new framework to help colleges and universities involved in a course-sharing consortium gauge how much value they’re providing to students. ” The post Course-sharing?

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education.

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Four cities where you can help students as an AmeriCorps volunteer

College Forward

Additionally, nearly 18,000 students without documentation graduate from high school every year. With more than 1,300 nonprofit organizations to choose from for your year of AmeriCorps service, we hope you’ll see why serving with College Possible is so valuable.

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Amid pushback, U.S. delays guidance on outsourcing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” They marveled at just how many companies, nonprofit organizations and even state government entities could be caught up in the much wider net. Some described them as “collateral damage” in the administration’s pursuit of OPMs. “Innovation will be stifled.”

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Journalism schools could help save local papers (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Oglethorpe Echo , operating near the University of Georgia in Athens, was donated to a nonprofit organization as part of a partnership forged with the university’s journalism school. But at this point it does make some money.” ” This concept is not without precedent.