How colleges and universities have embraced social media

by Loreal Lynch/Schools.com

Universities are often at the forefront of intellectual thought, but they have been known to lag behind the rest of society when it comes to learning and adopting new technologies. Such has certainly been the case with social media technologies. In fact, so reluctant were universities to adopt social media on campus that in 2007, only about half of colleges reported social media usage.

According to a recent report from the University of Massachusetts, however, colleges have finally caught on; in 2011, 100% of universities are using at least one form of social media--and they are reporting that it's now an important and successful piece of their outreach efforts. Check out the below infographic to learn more about how colleges have been slowly going social.

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