Filter & Sort
Somebody Else's Problem
Report finds initiative fatigue and a lack of accountability, among other obstacles, are preventing colleges from improving student outcomes.
Wyoming's Wild Ride
A new president fights to juggle a budget crunch with other major initiatives while faculty members worry about institutional direction and spending on big-ticket items.
Digital Education, the 'Mainstream Orthodoxy'
New book examines how technology is changing education -- and whether that change is for the better.
England Seeks to Measure Learning
More than 70 institutions are testing different measures of student learning amid new government effort to evaluate universities on teaching quality.
Tweeting Your Way to Tenure
American Sociological Association report suggests standards by which departments may consider social media activity and other public communications in tenure and promotion decisions.
The Campaign and Science
Clinton offers detailed plans and pledges to listen to researchers. Trump hasn't offered plans and has questioned scientific consensus on key issues.
Opinion
Scabbing on Our Future Selves
Joseph G. Ramsey reflects on grad students’ earlier efforts to unionize, arguing that those students who simply accepted low pay and few benefits were helping their own longed-for tenure-track jobs to disappear.
Opinion
Unmanageable Quagmire or Elegant Distinction?
Natasha Baker analyzes the potential impact of the ruling by the National Labor Relations Board on graduate assistants' right to unionize at Columbia University.