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Standardized Tests for the Job Market
Interest in workplace-readiness tests grows, and some big U.S.-based companies make all applicants in India take an assessment from Aspiring Minds, an Indian firm.
Outside Experience for All
Brown University starts effort to make sure every student can have an internship. Move comes as Cornell and Duke are providing students with more learning opportunities outside of the classroom.
Innovation vs. Gatekeeping
An accrediting official who has been caught in the crucible between encouraging experimentation and protecting aid funds proposes a way for new institutions to get access to federal aid, without "subterfuge."
Opinion
On Assessing Student Learning, Faculty Are Not the Enemy
Instead of criticizing professors as unhelpful recalcitrants, administrators should admit that assessment shapes what is taught and include the faculty as partners in creating the right kind of assessment, Jeffrey Alan Johnson argues.
More Athletes Get to Finish Line
The NCAA's Graduation Success Rate for college athletes is at an all-time high, but critics continue to question its definition of success.
A Conversation Starter
The Degree Qualifications Profile aimed to better define what a degree should mean. As its sponsors release a new version nearly four years later, the document has spurred discussions about learning at hundreds of colleges, but tangible impact has been limited.
Repeat Non-Completers
A study of 4.5 million non-first-time students found that only one-third have earned a degree after six to eight years.
Finding a Student's Calling
In a sign of the times, a college cuts its pastoral staff from 2 to 1, to move one of the clergy to the career center to provide a different type of guidance to students.