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Athletes' Postcollege Outcomes
New Gallup-Purdue study finds comparatively high levels of well-being and engagement among college athletes.
Professors Can Learn to Be More Effective Instructors
Studies of faculty development efforts at a liberal arts college and a land-grant university suggest the programs can have an impact on student outcomes.
Opinion
Another Take on Competency
Competency-based education can strengthen, not weaken, the liberal arts and provide a path to better wages and lives for adult students, Paul LeBlanc and Jim Selbe write.
Opinion
Let Them Eat Cake (Competently)
Competency-based education, the new darling of postsecondary disruption advocates, threatens to further stratify higher education, writes Steven Ward.
The 2016 Inside Higher Ed Survey of Chief Academic Officers
At a time of intense pressure on academic leaders, provosts are worried about the future of liberal arts education --...
Opinion
Yes, Virginia, There's a Better Way to Grade
While we in higher education keep using it, our grading system is broken, argues Linda B. Nilson, and she offers some concrete ways to fix it.
Learning, Not Wages
Association leader says accreditors could discourage politicians' focus on economic-driven measure of quality if they jointly embraced indicators of student learning.
Graduates' Workplace Advantage
Underemployment rates for college grads have sharply declined since the 2008 recession, and degree holders far outpace high school graduates, especially among African-American and Hispanic adults.