Learning & Assessment

A new alliance of college presidents was born today, aiming both to show the world that colleges are working to...

The assessment movement has inspired valuable research and numerous organizations, but Linda Suskie asks whether colleges really know why these efforts matter.

As largest regional accreditor toughens stance on for-profit colleges, two major companies, Bridgepoint and Argosy, seek shift to Western region -- which says it won't be a patsy.

Critics of for-profit higher education have of late drawn attention to what they see as a pattern of "accreditation shopping"...

One of the country's six regional accrediting agencies risks losing its federal recognition if it is unable to alter its...

Signs of the economic downturn are evident many places you turn in higher education these days: in the exploding demand...

Cliff Adelman explores the rhetoric and practice surrounding an oft-used phrase -- and asks readers to consider six frameworks for thinking about the word before they next utter it.