Small College Debates Its High-Tech Gamble
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Small, poor and 45 minutes from the nearest town with a shopping mall, West Virginia Wesleyan College couldn't attract enough students to fill its classrooms and improve its struggling finances. To survive and thrive, it needed to stand out. The answer, college leaders decided, was technology.
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By Adam Smeltz, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Sep.
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An institution seeks to be more than just an archive of programs.
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Americaâs already stratified system of higher education is becoming ever more so, and the chasm is creating all sorts of tensions as the less wealthy colleges try to compete.
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During lectures, they answer their cell phones, text message their friends and play games on their laptop computers. Are college students really that rude? Yes, says Delaney Kirk, a professor of management at Drake University in Des Moines. But, she adds, it's not their fault.
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If the One Laptop Project keeps its promises, the small green US$100 laptop could very well revolutionize teaching in developing nations. Computerworld Denmark asked Jan Soelberg, an expert from the school of education at the University of Aarhus, to try the computer.
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By Miguel Helft  On a spring Saturday, about 90 students from Stanford and as many from the University of California at Berkeley converged on Google's corporate campus for a day of spirited team competition over mind- bending puzzles, Lego building and video games.
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Concordia University likes to have the newest technologies to keep up with its students, but its move to faster 802.11n Wi-Fi is viewed as evolutionary, rather than revolutionary.
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A FEW years ago, a young man in his freshman year of college had a vision for a better way to provide high school students with the information they need to find colleges that are a good fit.
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Though just teenagers, the applicants to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are a scarily accomplished lot. They have started businesses and published academic research. One built a working nuclear reactor in his garage. In their high schools, they have led every extracurricular club and mastered the SAT.
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By Pete Bosak, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Jun.
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Some of the direst noises about our nationâs scientific prospects may be premature; students seem to be embracing challenging science courses.
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Community colleges are being deluged with hundreds of thousands of students unprepared for college-level work.
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With her first child headed for college this fall and two more soon to follow, Carol Wright was lost. Campus tours, applications, financial aid forms, transcripts, SAT scores, class planning &#151; and that was just the beginning.
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From classroom clickers to Wi-Fi-enabled laptops, technology is king on today's college campuses.
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SeaDour writes &quot;CNET News has an interesting perspective on the changing face of technology on campus. These days, students are showing more interest in the tech perks that campuses have to offer, and universities are taking notice.
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Laptops and smart phones are at the head of the class for collegiate back-to-school shoppers.Photos: gadgets at the head of the class