Playing up its activist roots, Goddard College announced it will host a conference to explore the role of higher education in the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. The conference will take place on Saturday, March 10, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Haybarn Theatre on Goddard's Plainfield, Vt. campus.****Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect (which he co-founded wi...
I realized how poor my family was when I was a high school senior. While filling out a financial aid form to go to college, I looked at my mom’s tax return to see how much she made. I asked her if it was a mistake. It wasn’t. She made $11,000 a year to support a family of four. Today I make four times as much as my mom did mainly because of one reason. Not dogged ingenuity or self-dete...
AERA @AERA_EdResearch New AERA Book Examines the College Promise Programs -- Read the news release: http://ow.ly/XNOD50xwPUx || Watch coeditors @lauraperna1 (@PennGSE) & Edward Smith (@kresgefdn) discuss the book: http://ow.ly/OW4U50xwPUy #FreeCollege #FreeTuition #CollegePromise
Like many at #NECHE annual mtg, Judith Eaton @CHEAnews applauds Barbara Brittingham, who has announced her retirement next year as prez
of New England Commission of Higher Education
In #NECHE keynote, Judith Eaton @CHEAnews notes accreditation may increasingly address #equity, #academicfreedom, #freespeech, #digitization and #quality beyond academic issues and including social responsibility
Playing up its activist roots, Goddard College announced it will host a conference to explore the role of higher education in the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. The conference will take place on Saturday, March 10, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Haybarn Theatre on Goddard's Plainfield, Vt. campus.****Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect (which he co-founded wi... 
I realized how poor my family was when I was a high school senior. While filling out a financial aid form to go to college, I looked at my mom’s tax return to see how much she made. I asked her if it was a mistake. It wasn’t. She made $11,000 a year to support a family of four. Today I make four times as much as my mom did mainly because of one reason. Not dogged ingenuity or self-dete... 
