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Feds Plan Accreditation Experimentation
Key Education Department official says innovators in higher ed should not be held back by their accreditors.
Opinion
An Inside Look at Why Accreditation Works
Describing his service on a voluntary visiting team, Bob Ubell defends regional accreditation as a form of “deliberative democracy” and urges us not to hand it over to a federal education police force.
Private Colleges Give Ground on Student Data
Lobbying group for independent colleges says it's open to expanding federal data collection on student outcomes but remains opposed to student-level database favored by public colleges and many policy makers.
DFW Fail
Savannah State professors object to a new, unwritten policy judging their teaching effectiveness by how many D or F grades they give.
Learning Tool or Cheating Aid?
After students at Texas Christian University are suspended for allegedly using the Quizlet app to cheat on their exams, professors are warned this case may be the tip of the iceberg.
When More Info Isn't Better for Students
New findings: college students actually perform worse with access to digital course-planning platforms that show how previous students performed.
Promoting Student Success
“ Promoting Student Success” is Inside Higher Ed's new on-demand compilation of articles. You may download a copy free, here...
Cliff Adelman, Analyst Extraordinaire
A smart, opinionated researcher and interpreter of the higher ed enterprise dies at the age of 75.