Sat.Aug 17, 2019 - Fri.Aug 23, 2019

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What a Tech Company’s Big Shift Portends for the Future of the Master’s Degree

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This article was originally appeared in The Chronicle for Higher Education on August 7, 2019, written by Goldie Blumenstyk. The end of the master’s degree as we’ve known it? 2U’s stock plunged last week after its executives announced some business changes in response to shifts they were seeing in the market. Lots of higher-education leaders and faculty members should be paying attention to that, even if they don’t care about the future of OPMs, or even know what those initials mean.

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Pop the new social app designed for students comes to campus

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A new social media network has launched aimed at becoming the go-to messaging platform for students. Can it prosper where the likes of Yik Yak failed?

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Achieving Innovation: How Three College Leaders Have Created Change on Their Campuses

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Colleges and universities need to change. On this there is widespread agreement. The challenge, of course, is how to make changes at institutions steeped in venerable traditions and, at times, resistant to transformation. To explore how to solve this problem and spur campus wide innovations, The Chronicle of Higher Education joined with Arizona State University and Salesforce to hold a forum with presidents, provosts, and other senior administrators.