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The Pulse: Blackboard Ultra
This month's edition of "The Pulse" podcast features an interview with Mark Strassman, senior vice president for industry and product management at Blackboard Inc., about Ultra, the company's new user experience.
Opinion
The Key Flaw With Private University Engineering
It's great for Harvard that a $400 million gift will help it build an excellent program, but public universities are the ones change the workforce in engineering, writes Andreas Cangellaris.
Caution and Competency
Senators seek guidance on how to encourage innovation without opening aid floodgates to "bad actors," and a group of 17 institutions with competency-based programs calls for a careful approach by policy makers.
A Little Heavy Reading
Common reading choices for incoming freshmen this year center on diversity and race relations and tend to feature nonfiction, but a few colleges go with literary classics.
Opinion
Post-Post-Racial America?
Does the arc of the universe bend toward justice? Scott McLemee looks into a philosopher's book on racial profiling and police homicide.
Breakthrough for Gay Christian Professors
Two Christian colleges change hiring rules to permit employment of faculty members who are in same-sex marriages.
Opinion
Why Ethics Codes Fail
The American Psychological Association scandal is a useful reminder that codes of conduct come from individuals with their own biases, and scholarly associations need to accept and deal with that reality, writes Laura Stark.
Experimenting With Aid
Education Department moves closer to experimenting with federal aid and accreditation for alternative providers like boot camps and MOOCs, while White House books meeting on expanding space.