Freedom to Achieve: addressing the attainment gap through student and staff co-creation

Student Aid, Student Behavior, and Educational Attainment

Forty years ago, when the federal system of student loans and grants was born, providing the basis for today’s student financial aid system, about half of all recent high school graduates were enrolled in college. Today, more than two-thirds of those who complete high school enroll in two-year or four-year colleges within a year (NCES, 2012c, Table 234). While significant differences persist ac...

Service-oriented Cloud Architecture Schema to Bridge Gap between Student, Staff and Academia

Cloud Computing is a new resource platform that offers abundant amount of services for organizations to meet furthermore satisfies the needs without huge and prior investment. When it comes to the development of a cloud, architecture plays a critical role. Architectural design is the primary step to meet the client demands. The purpose of this paper is to design a feasible and low-cost architec...

Faculty Engagement to Enhance Student Attainment

Barriers to student computer usage: staff and student perceptions

Ensuring that all graduates are able to exploit new technologies is a primary goal of all UK universities and a variety of assumptions have underpinned policies designed to promote this goal. This paper explores some of these assumptions through the findings of a longitudinal study involving a cohort of over 800 university students. The study adopted a student perspective to examine the factors...

Addressing the innovation gap.

The 10 years since the mid-1990s have witnessed an unprecedented investment in Drug Discovery driven by both the unraveling of the human genome and the parallel introduction of various high-throughput technologies. During the same period, industry metrics describe a decline in the numbers of new molecular entities launched upon the global pharmaceutical markets. The Society for Medicines Resear...