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When Banks Lost Control of the Student Loan Mess

Higher Education Inquirer

History can be many things. In 2007, President George W. Bush signed the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 (HR 2669) which cut subsidies to lenders and increasing grants to students. For-profit colleges, the engine for much of this bad debt, did get scrutiny, and from 2010 to 2023, their presence was reduced.

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20 Years of WOW: Celebrating Innovation in Digital Learning

WCET Frontiers

I wanted to take a moment to look back at the history of the projects. A Brief History of the WOW Awards In 2004, our then-Executive Director, Sally Johnstone, introduced the first annual WOW Awards: We started this new award to recognize outstanding efforts in implementing technology in higher education.

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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Juan Gilbert, a 2002 Emerging Scholar, a decade later received the 2011 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. A 2007 Emerging Scholar, Dr. Peniel Joseph (“Interpreting African-American Life and History,” Jan. White House Honoree, Jan. Remembering and rendering lives.

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Fall books from university presses on digital life

Inside Higher Ed

Binder’s Language and the Rise of the Algorithm ( University of Chicago Press, December ) looks into the history of efforts to bridge the differences between communication and computation. ” Presumably that will include programming themselves, sooner or later, in which case we will have engineered ourselves into oblivion.

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Carnegie Mellon–Africa receives $275M investment

Inside Higher Ed

The graduate school has offered two-year master’s degrees through CMU’s renowned college of engineering since 2011. CMU-Africa was established as CMU-Rwanda in 2011 as a partnership between the Rwandan government and the Pittsburgh-based university renowned for its engineering and technology programs.

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From Istanbul to New York: Nejla Gul-Saglam’s Inspiring Path to Education and Empowerment

Coursera blog

When Turkish native Nejla Gul-Saglam began her journey in Computer Programming at Sakarya University, in Turkey, back in 2007, she didnt yet know how many times her dreams would evolveand be tested. She believed in me because she could see the journey I had taken through Coursera history and other external education.

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Moving Teaching Forward, Post-Pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

The first was the Great Recession, the financial crisis that began in December 2007. The popularity of majors that lead directly to well-paying jobs, whether in business, engineering, health care or information technology, shows no signs of slackening. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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