Curriculum development

Western Governors U. and others continue to expand competency-based education amid excitement (and confusion) about President Obama's praise of the approach.

Coursera and edX both double in size and look for larger international audiences.

Professors rally behind a high school teacher who says No Child Left Behind has created a generation of test-takers unprepared for higher education.

New investor-backed company teams up with public two-year colleges to create honors programs designed to attract top students and help them transfer.

As Stanford spurs discussion of trimming time-to-degree for Ph.D.s, CUNY offers model for public institutions that might want to kill tradition of grad school as a place you "check in and never check out."

Complete College America enlists other groups in spelling out its call for immediate and fundamental changes to remedial education.

Community college in N.C. plans to evaluate "soft skills" and issue workplace readiness certificates for students who get passing marks.

Flat World Knowledge will no longer publish versions of its textbooks at no charge. How big a setback does the company's change represent for the 'open' movement?

Augustana College president tries to give professors a voice in institutional governance at a time when faculty members across the country feel marginalized.