Education bubble is close to popping in our faces
April 25, 2011
Fair warning: This article will piss off a lot of you.
Content on Higher Education:
Students lobby state legislators
February 7, 2011
Job access and higher education funding were high priorities for Virginia college students as they lobbied the general assembly in Richmond Thursday.
Retirement plan irks Tech employees
January 31, 2011
A proposal from Gov. Bob McDonnell to fix the state’s retirement program will reduce real income of state employees — including all Virginia Tech employees — by 2 percent.
Positive efforts now encouraging women to enter STEM fields
January 20, 2011
Most young women of the Millennial generation, at some point during their secondary education, were encouraged to embrace and enter the science, technology, engineering and mathematics educational field.
Women underrepresented in science, engineering
January 20, 2011
Virginia Tech is struggling to maintain female and underrepresented minority enrollment in science, technology, engineering and mathematics majors on its campus of nearly 30,000 students
McDonnell taking strides toward improved higher education funding
January 17, 2011
Gov. Bob McDonnell gave his State of the Commonwealth address last week. Along with giving a summary of the governor’s job during his first year in office, the speech brought renewed attention to many of the governor’s proposals.
Virginia Tech curriculum inhibits well-rounded education
September 21, 2010
Somewhere between major-required courses and the Curriculum for Liberal Education, Virginia Tech dropped the ball and picked up a box.
University technology must be used effectively
September 7, 2010
We all walk into class on the first day of school knowing that it is going to be a review of the syllabus and the best way to contact the professor. What is most frustrating on that first day is realizing your professor doesn't use Scholar, or e-mail, or
Column: Corporatizing education hurts faculty teaching and research
April 2, 2009
In December of 2008, the Monitor on Psychology published an article concerning the "corporatization of higher education," which discusses the loss of values of the educational system as a result of the increasing reliance on corporate relationships and fu