National Briefing | Education: Former Ohio State President Returns to West Virginia

E. Gordon Gee, 69, who resigned from his second stint as president of Ohio State University in July after a series of embarrassing gaffes, will start off one more second-time-about job next month, as interim president of West Virginia University. Dr. Gee, who has also been president of Brown, Vanderbilt and the University of Colorado, previously served as president of West Virginia University from 1981 to 1985, when he was a single of the nation’s youngest university presidents. Dr. Gee will serve until finally a new president is named, and be paid, on an annual basis, $ 450,000. 

National Briefing | Education: Former Ohio State President Returns to West Virginia

National Briefing | Education: Online Courses Attract Degree Holders, Survey Finds

About 80 percent of men and women who enrolled in a massive open on-line program, or MOOC, from the University of Pennsylvania had previously earned a bachelor’s degree, in accordance to a survey of 34,000 college students who had at least began a single of the 24 programs the university presented on the Coursera platform. Although Coursera’s founders have presented their MOOCs as a way to democratize greater schooling by producing it accessible on the web, totally free, to anyone in the planet, the Penn survey located that in the United States and developing nations alike, most Coursera students had been well educated, employed, youthful and male. Penn’s courses account for 20 % of Coursera’s enrollment.

National Briefing | Education: Online Courses Attract Degree Holders, Survey Finds

National Briefing | Southwest: Texas: Conservative Student Group Draws Fire for Immigration Game

A conservative student group announced Monday that it will perform a “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” game at the University of Texas at Austin, drawing condemnation from Democrats and a threat of expulsion. Members of the Young Conservatives of Texas will wander the campus Wednesday wearing indicators that say “illegal immigrant,” and college students who capture them and consider them to the group’s recruiting table will get $ 25 present certificates. The group’s spokesman, Lorenzo Garcia, said the purpose was to spark discussion about unlawful immigration. The Texas Democratic Celebration condemned the game and pointed out that Mr. Garcia lately was a paid personnel member with Greg Abbott’s Republican campaign for governor. The campaign’s press secretary, Avdiel Huerta, stated it “has no affiliation with this repugnant work.” Gregory Vincent, the university’s vice president for diversity, said that if the members carried out their program, they would be “ignoring the honor code and contributing to the degradation of our campus culture.” College students located guilty of violating the honor code could encounter expulsion.

National Briefing | Southwest: Texas: Conservative Student Group Draws Fire for Immigration Game