Kent State University plans to award associate degrees to students enrolled in four-year programs (Cleveland.com) – Kent State has announced that it will be granting associate degrees to students who earn their bachelor degree.
Ohio State licenses health-care data analytics software to Signet Enterprises (Columbus Business First) – Ohio State recently received $275k as an up-front payment to license a health care data analytics software, the largest up-front payment OSU has received for a license.
Learning Everywhere: Colorado's Residential Academic Programs Offer 24/7 Immersion (ED Tech) – University of Colorado Boulder is offering a new immersion program that combines Spanish language studies with its engineering program.
College degree programs are on chopping block (Crain’s Cleveland) – To help stem costs and refocus their curriculum a number of colleges are examining which degree programs they may want to suspend. U of Akron has found 55 programs that it is considering cutting or scaling back.
Investing in value, sharing risk: Financing higher education through Income Share Agreements (American Enterprise Institute) – A recent report examines the use of income share agreements to help students finance their college expenses. These agreements have investors finance a student’s education in exchange for a percentage of the student’s income for a set time after they graduate.
