As the first mega university, the University of Phoenix showed how a focus on working adults and career education could work at scale. Almost a decade ago, though, Phoenix began a long slide. The university’s enrollment last year of 84,000 was roughly one-fifth of its peak.
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With President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, a community college professor, in the White House, university leaders and edtech executives told EdScoop they’re expecting a divergence in the type of federal policy affecting their institutions and students over the next four years.
Education secretary nominee Miguel Cardona last week said that student debt relief will be a priority early on, echoing the president’s campaign promises to provide relief to the more than 40 million Americans carrying nearly $1.6 trillion in student loan debt.
Biden’s campaign made community colleges central in its workforce strategy, promising a $50 billion investment in community-college business partnerships and apprenticeship programs. Historically Black colleges and universities, too, along with minority-serving institutions, stand to gain $70 billion under the Biden administration, for education grants, research in
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Finding a way to safely train nursing students is one of many educational tasks made more difficult by the pandemic, but a new program using robots at the University of Texas at Arlington may prove a viable alternative to in-person training.
The university announced this week that through a recent nursing innovation grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board it will expand its fleet of “telepresence robots” to assist nursing students who are training remotely. The robots, which are essentially tablets on wheels, allow remote users to navigate a clinical environment and meet with patients.