Filter & Sort
A Broadening Battle Over Archives to Share Papers
Scholars feel pressure to remove their work from research-sharing platforms like Academia.edu and others, as publishers’ battle with ResearchGate rages on.
Another Small College Will Close
Memphis College of Art, after 81 years, will end operations.
Trading Places at the Accountability Table
Jamie Studley, former key Education Department official, will lead the Western region's accrediting agency, part of an industry her Obama administration bosses chastised.
Opinion
Openness and the Decline of the Textbook Author
The emerging model of openly licensed educational content makes pedagogical as well as financial sense for today’s higher education market, fostering inclusivity and knocking down the wall between writer and reader, writes Brian Jacobs.
Peer Review's Give-and-Take
About that peer-review crisis … There isn’t one, at least in terms of quantity, according to a new study of article submissions and reviews completed in the social sciences. But those who write many papers might not be reviewing their fair share.
Anger Over Stereotypes in Textbook
Pearson vows to remove material amid uproar over advice on how nursing students should evaluate people by their racial, ethnic or religious backgrounds.
Chemistry, Without the Dreaded Organic Chem Course
Emory’s department revamps curriculum -- and moves away from the traditional model in U.S. higher education.
‘You Can Do Anything’
In his new book, George Anders makes the case -- in part with data often used against the liberal arts -- for what he calls the “surprising power” of such an education.