Filter & Sort
OER at the Enterprise Level
State University of New York system strikes deal with Lumen Learning to expand and fill gaps in systemwide platform to deliver open educational resources free to students.
‘Unequal Higher Education’
Authors discuss new book on inequities facing students and institutions.
What the Freshmen Are Reading
Many common reading assignments this year focus on issues of diversity, free speech and immigration.
Opinion
Sunspots and Poetry
Scott McLemee reviews Tracy Daugherty's Dante and the Early Astronomer: Science, Adventure and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens.
‘The Educated Underclass’
Author discusses new book in which he questions whether most colleges are living up to their claims about promoting social mobility -- and whether college degrees do enough for low-income students.
University of Iowa Cuts Journal Subscriptions
Blaming unsustainable price increases, librarians at the university reach out to faculty members and graduate students to draw up a list of 820 journal subscriptions to cancel.
All Fall
Scott McLemee offers a roundup of books from this coming autumn's university press catalogs and more.
‘The College Completion Glass -- Half-Full or Half-Empty?’
Author discusses new book about flaws in the way many people evaluate college completion.