Biologically inspired design is an emerging practice based on the premise that nature holds a vast library of strategies, processes and technologies that can lead to innovative, sustainable solutions to human problems. ...

Bio-inspired design (BID) and its many variants (biomimetics, biomimicry etc.) continues to be a promising innovation methodology in which practitioners from industry and academia search nature’s evolutionary diversity for ...

As most students attending colleges and universities (and their parents) understand, the cost of higher education is quite high. In 2006, tuition and fees at four-year colleges increased by approximately six percent with ...

The entire complex of market metaphors--commodity, investment, consumer-push higher education into the realm of consumer regulation, rather than a policy framework that places knowledge, learning, and widespread social ...

In recent years, the college graduation rates of African American women, a historically marginalized group, have increased. However, their graduation rates continue to lag behind those of White women, among other racial/ethnic ...

This literature review analysis revealed that governmental and non-profit foundations have promoted racial equity to enhance the life of people who live in poverty in the United States. These institutions intended to provide ...

El presente artículo de revisión es el resultado de una investigación descriptiva y explicativa que tuvo como propósito general identificar las variables que determinan el acceso a la educación superior. Para ello analizó ...

The aim of this study is to report employment and independent living outcomes of 125 graduates from the Taft College Transition to Independent Living (TIL) program. The TIL program has served students with intellectual and ...

Access to higher education has been limited for many underrepresented racial minorities (URMs) in the United States. Part of the reason for this has been because of weaknesses in the K-16 pipeline. This article takes a ...