In her speech at the Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton exclaimed, "Bernie Sanders and I will work together to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for all!" How she intends to do that remains something of a mystery, beyond...
Denver-based software coding school Galvanize said it's raised $45 million in a second round of funding.
Galvanize said the Series B funding was led by ABS Capital Partners, and participating were Colorado Impact Fund, Haystack Partners, Greg Maffei, Aspen Grove Capital and existing investor University Ventures.
Galvanize, a market leader delivering technology education programs and community workspaces, announced today a $45 million Series B investment led by ABS Capital Partners, a leading late-stage growth company investor. Colorado Impact Fund, Haystack Partners, Greg Maffei, Aspen Grove Capital and existing investor University Ventures also participated.
More colleges are issuing digital badges to help their students display skills to employers or graduate programs, and colleges are tapping vendor platforms to create a verified form of the alternative credentials.
"Community colleges are one of America's best-kept secrets," Jill Biden, who teaches English at Northern Virginia Community College, once remarked. These schools, she notes, are increasingly "forming partnerships with businesses in their communities, ensuring...
In 2009, the state's two-year college system dropped the word "community" from its name, an acknowledgment that some of its 28 member institutions were now offering bachelor's degrees. Six years later, lawmakers proposed...
Arizona State University, University of Arizona, and University System of Georgia Among the 23 Schools to Select CampusLogic's Student Engagement Platform in Q2
Williams had spent five years as president of Macmillan New Ventures before becoming CEO of its enterprise solutions division until leaving in July to join University Ventures (UV).
College Disrupted, Bloomberg Radio, July 2016 (audio)
Nearly every college boasts about its job-placement rate for new graduates, and most of the time you won't find a number less than 90 percent. To get to that number, colleges survey their graduates six months after college graduation, and nearly half of the schools never...