By setting an aggressive pace for technology adoption, colleges around the country are pioneering the ways in which we will work and live.
After seeing Zimride's continued adoption by college students, they decided to target universities as customers.
Because of the social media platform's widespread adoption by college students, there is a great deal of interest in how Facebook use is related to academic performance.
There's a lot of competition, but Tinder is creating an addicting experience that could stand to find big adoption on college campuses.
Wieman told the committee that "powerful, vested interests" on college campuses discourage the adoption of new ways to teach science and train future science teachers, saying that most universities place a higher priority on research productivity than on student learning.
Since launch, Piazza's social Q&A network has found eager adoption among college engineering students in particular, and the company says that half of undergraduates at engineering schools like Berkeley, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon and MIT are now on the site.
Social behavior of people has been shown to affect their obesity levels [3], reproductive fitness [4], productivity [5], software adoption [6], college choices, substance abuse, political affiliations [7], health characteristics [3, 8], spending behavior [9], happiness [10] and financial status [11].
However, for the past few years students have unsuccessfully demanded specific reforms, such as changes in the burden of proof for college adjudication and the adoption of an affirmative consent standard.
Missing is any awareness that the Obama administration made eligibility for $4.35 billion in Race to the Top funding contingent on state adoption of "college and career ready" standards, which turned out to be the Common Core standards.
In January, Gov. Bob Taft of Ohio, a Republican, put into effect tax breaks for adoptions and college tuition.
