The following developments received coverage in Inside Higher Ed this week:
- The National University System has purchased technology from UniversityNow, a venture that has worked to create online, competency-based programs and that operates Patten University.
- Temple University forced the resignation of its business dean after concluding that officials there had submitted false information to U.S. News & World Report for years to try to inflate the ranking of its online M.B.A. program. The university said Moshe Porat, the dean, had dismantled the school's system for verifying the accuracy of data being submitted for rankings.
- Rapidly produced and highly topical digital humanities projects are challenging perceptions of the field's relevancy.
- Cloud-based IT services are becoming the norm in higher ed, but some colleges, particularly those with limited resources, may not be as far along on their “cloud journey” as one would think.
- A new search engine that aims to connect nonacademics with open-access research will be launched this fall. Get the Research will connect the public with 20 million open-access scholarly articles.
