I know that many institutions are filled to the brim with students. That is normally great news but it is tempered as most schools are getting paid less per student from governments and other funding sources. This Inside Higher Ed Quick Takes, Impact of Scholarships on Community College Students caught my attention. The study indicates [...]
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Fisher’s Five for the Week Ending September 24, 2010
September 27th, 2010 
joe Another week in the books and here are five more articles that I found interesting this week. Remember they are in no particular order. 1. iPad talk continues in the Wired Campus section of the Chronicle of Higher Education with a piece titled “Classroom iPad Programs Get Mixed Response.” I suspect the debate is far [...]
Fisher’s Five for the Week Ending September 17, 2010
September 20th, 2010 joe As our podcast is on hiatus, I thought I would post five articles that I found interesting, thought provoking, asinine, funny, or somehow caught my attention. So, here it goes in no particular order. From the USA Today on September 16, 2010 “College bans Facebook, Twitter, all social media this week”. The break is a [...]
Social Media Gets a Passing Grade
July 16th, 2010 joe 
The Wired Campus on July 15, 2010 posted an article that essentially says that time spent on social media sites like Facebook does not adversely affect grades.
Does Higher Ed Need to be Mayor?
June 3rd, 2010 joe 
A friend got me playing one of those location-based games a little while back. I gave it up because when I woke up and realized that it was all a big ‘so what’ moment. It had no point for me. Very few of my friends were playing. I did not want to be friends with [...]
Student Protest Shuts Down University
May 21st, 2010 joe 
In the past, we have talked about various protests on the Higher Ed Review podcast. Some have been very peaceful and some have turned ugly. Some have also had varying degrees of success. The New York Times published an article titled Student Protests Tie Up Campuses in Puerto Rico on May 20, 2010 about a [...]
Big Brother or Efficient Attendance Taking?
April 28th, 2010 joe 
I just read an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education by Andrea Fuller in their Wired Campus section that has me thinking. A school is going to be using technology to take attendance in large lecture halls. Some students at Northern Arizona University may be in trouble if they plan on skipping in certain [...]
Making the Most of Your School’s Facebook Fan Page
April 21st, 2010 nicole According to Facebook, there are over 400 million active users using the website and that number continues to grow. If you are a college or university that is not using Facebook to promote your school, you are missing out on a great way to interact with past and future students. In this blog post I [...]
iPads Getting the Up and Down Vote
April 5th, 2010 joe InsideHigherEd.com looked into the trend of giving away iPads and other mobile devices on campus in an article titled “iPads on Campus.” There have recently been two very public announcements of iPad give-a-ways on campuses. This has led to other IT offices to ask “Should we follow the same path?” Theresa Row, the CIO at [...]
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February 25th, 2010 admin The Higher Ed Review is an audio podcast recapping the news & events for the week in the world of higher education. Join Nicole, Joe & Jay every week as they discuss articles & websites from around the web that impact us all in higher education.
