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Beth & Tim Manners
Dec 18, 20181 min read
Cannabis Class: UConn Goes to Pot
NBC: “The University of Connecticut is in spring 2019 going to offer a new course on marijuana and what it takes to work in the industry....
Beth & Tim Manners
Dec 17, 20181 min read
Life @ BU: Finals Week at Mugar Library
Boston University: “It’s that time again. Twice a year Mugar Memorial Library is transformed into BU’s ground zero … The Mugar staff,...
Beth & Tim Manners
Dec 10, 20181 min read
Monserrat: Climbing Mountains at Holy Cross
Holy Cross: “From their very first days on campus, Montserrat challenges students to expand their idea of where and how learning happens...
Beth & Tim Manners
Dec 7, 20181 min read
How to Study for Jobs of the Future?
NPR: “Eighty-five percent of the jobs that today’s students will do in 2030 don’t exist yet, the Institute for the Future has predicted....
Beth & Tim Manners
Dec 3, 20182 min read
Grade Inflation: Putting the ‘Grit’ Back in GPA
Mitch Daniels: “In many cases, the GPA proves to be a reliable indicator of discipline, persistence and resilience — characteristics...
Beth & Tim Manners
Nov 29, 20181 min read
MIT 200.b: Brains in Toyland
“In class 2.00b, Toy Product Design, offered by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, first-year students get hands-on engineering...
Beth & Tim Manners
Nov 26, 20181 min read
Hello, Iowa: The Original Cornell
Cornell Daily Sun: “When Martin Rosenfeld was still a high school senior, his college application list included an Ivy League school in...
Beth & Tim Manners
Nov 14, 20181 min read
Northeastern Acquires Global Presence
The Wall Street Journal: “Northeastern University, a onetime blue-collar commuter school in Boston, is continuing a yearslong...
Beth & Tim Manners
Oct 16, 20181 min read
MIT Launches Billion-Dollar AI Intitiative
The Verge: “MIT has announced a $1 billion initiative to … establish a new college of computing to train the next generation of machine...
Beth & Tim Manners
Oct 9, 20181 min read
Elon: Professor Squire & Online Insights
Elon: “Explaining how she works with data to identify trends, relationships and networks, Professor of Computer Science Megan Squire...
Beth & Tim Manners
Sep 25, 20181 min read
Brandeis: A Culture of Exploration
Brandeis: “Whenever the entrepreneurial spirit arises in Brandeis students and faculty, it often leads to something big: companies that...
Beth & Tim Manners
Sep 20, 20181 min read
University of Delaware: Students Pitch Toy Ideas
University of Delaware: “Engineering students at the University of Delaware recently pitched their own inventions to representatives from...
Beth & Tim Manners
Jul 3, 20182 min read
Grade Inflation: Summa Cum Saturated?
The Wall Street Journal: “Nearly half of students who graduated from Lehigh University, Princeton University and the University of...
Beth & Tim Manners
Apr 30, 20181 min read
Bates: A Curriculum for ‘Purposeful Work’
Quartz: Clayton Spencer “has been head of Bates, a small college in Lewiston, Maine, founded by abolitionists, since 2012. Since she...
Beth & Tim Manners
Oct 17, 20171 min read
Ivy League: What Are The Most Popular Majors?
Business Insider: “So what do undergraduates at the eight Ivy League schools like to study? Turns out, it’s surprisingly similar no...
Beth & Tim Manners
Jun 28, 20171 min read
Grade Inflation: Getting ‘A’s is Easier
USA Today: “There’s a pretty clear trend: At four-year schools, awarding of A’s has been going up five to six percentage points per...
Beth & Tim Manners
Jun 21, 20172 min read
St. John’s College: ‘Old School’ is New Again
Quartz: “Consider St. John’s College, America’s third-oldest institution of higher education, founded in 1696. With fewer than 700...
Beth & Tim Manners
Feb 16, 20171 min read
Elite Colleges Stop Giving AP Credits
The Wall Street Journal: “Admissions officers from some elite colleges say they still expect to see high-school transcripts loaded with...
Beth & Tim Manners
Feb 14, 20171 min read
Boston College Revamps Remedial Courses
The Washington Post: “When students are unprepared for the rigors of college, schools often require them to take courses to catch up to...
Beth & Tim Manners
Feb 10, 20171 min read
Hillsdale: A College for Conservatives
The New York Times: “Hillsdale, a private college of 1,400 students in southern Michigan that describes itself as ‘nonsectarian...
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