Curriculum

Reversing earlier decision, university will continue to offer American Sign Language for academic credit.

The first Jesuit-led new media program gets under way at Fairfield University.

Plan to revamp undergraduate education by eliminating 3 separate colleges draws criticism from supporters of women's education.

Foundation selects University of Chicago's Don Randel to succeed William Bowen as its president.

Three longtime observers of higher education explore the ways -- positive and negative -- that universities are changing in Remaking the American University (Rutgers University Press).

Kentucky community colleges experiment with having outside company evaluate students' essays in freshman composition.

Alabama's Calhoun Community College alters its class schedule to reduce students' commuting costs.

Permissions center partners with Blackboard to help professors gain approval as they build their online courses.

Rice contemplates minors that would expand offerings, and perhaps limit pressure on students to accumulate multiple majors.

Berkeley sued over Web site created by professors to help high school teachers.