Filter & Sort
Too Risky for Boulder?
Students and alumni rally around tenured professor who says she is being forced out because her lecture about prostitution (in a course on deviance) might make some people uncomfortable.
Opinion
Disrupting the Disruptors
A key principle -- that education is a public good -- needs to be central to discussions about how to change higher education, writes James Grossman.
Accreditation Agita (Update: Accreditor Extended)
As federal panel weighs fate of agency that withdrew support from City College of San Francisco, lawmakers on Capitol Hill ponder future role for the government in accreditation.
The First Cohort
AT&T employees, men and domestic students dominate the first cohort of Georgia Tech's new fully online master's degree program.
Vow of Silence
Naropa professor, suspended for not speaking at all, even in class, says he's being punished for speaking out previously about diversity issues.
Aggie Journalism Revival
Ten years ago, Texas A&M cut its journalism program. The job market imploded in the meantime, but the university hopes its interdisciplinary, liberal arts education approach will make reviving the degree a smart move.
Opinion
Year of the Backlash
Might massive online courses from elite institutions -- which have been credited with legitimizing online education -- actually be undermining the public view of other forms of digital learning, Peter Stokes and Sean Gallagher ask?
Competent at What?
Lumina Foundation creates group of colleges working on competency-based degrees, with goals of defining what works and what, exactly, competency-based education should be.