Filter & Sort
SAT Thresholds and Student Success
Study reveals minimum SAT requirements that push students toward the two-year sector may hinder their success at earning four-year degrees.
Faculty SOS
Report seeks a broad rethinking of the structure of professors' jobs, with a strong emphasis on academic freedom and equitable treatment, but an openness to radical change.
The Cost of Agents
British universities are paying more in commissions to recruit international students.
Excluding Iranian Students
New policy at UMass barring Iranians from some science and engineering programs raises concerns and questions about universities responsibilities' under U.S. sanctions.
In Texas, Questioning Powers
An investigation of the University of Texas at Austin finds the president likely swayed admissions decisions to aid well-connected applicants. Everybody does it, President Bill Powers said.
Opinion
The Wrong Path to Higher Ed Equality
President Obama’s plans for free community college and higher ed ratings will reinforce, not combat, inequity for disadvantaged students, writes Tomiko Brown-Nagin.
Ratings Release Draws Nearer
Education Department official gives earlier release date for college ratings while talking about quest for quality data and how to capture multiple student goals and outcomes.
Warrior and Scholar
Two-week boot camp to help veterans make the transition to college is spreading at selective institutions.