In recent months, we have witnessed the success of books and articles predicting massive shifts in the way students will experience and complete post-secondary education. Costs will be reduced and outcomes improved, writers argue, when higher ed is unbundled, meaning students pick and choose from...
ProSky announced today that it raised a $2.3 million seed round led by Lightbank to further develop its product and invest in marketing.
Galvanize, a Denver-based computer-coding school, plans to open a campus in Phoenix next fall, creating a new pipeline of tech-savvy workers intended to help meet the Valley's corporate needs.
Ponce Health Sciences University
(PHSU) recently became the second
of three medical schools in
the world to teach anatomy with the
help of holographic human bodies, a
cutting edge technology provided by
zSpace, a company based...
Peripheral characters have a funny way of changing our perspective. Once bit players, they invert our understanding of the plot, turn heroes into villains and reframe the issues. Looking at...
Author of College Disrupted, Ryan Craig, discusses the impact of "unbundling" on the future of higher education
Higher education is being dramatically changed ("disrupted") by market forces in ways that will (and should) fundamentally alter the services that colleges deliver and the programs that prospective students pursue. Ultimately, the value of higher education to students and to society will grow. More immediately, however, this disruption will appear...
In the past 50 years, there has been only incremental progress in advancing Research & Development (R&D) in Puerto Rico. There has been wide recognition, but not enough investment to stimulate R&D, which, along with its associated activities, has been a largely untapped source of global competitive advantage for Puerto Rico, with the potential to attract significant foreign investment and generate vast sums of wealth for the commonwealth's economy.
The Ponce Health Sciences University (PHSU), a fully accredited U.S. medical school, has announced the hiring of two leading researchers to address growing disparities among Hispanics and other minorities in the United States. Dr. Harold Saavedra, cancer biologist from Emory University, and Dr. Devin Mueller, neuroscientist of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, both have been awarded prestigious RO1 grants by the National Institutes of Health, which will be the basis of their work at Ponce Research Institute.
David Lenihan, CEO of Ponce Health Sciences University (PHSU), and Kenira Thompson, president of the Ponce Research Institute, highlight the institution's pioneering efforts in creating cultural competency for medical graduates and increasing investments in clinical research from the US for large-scale trials.
