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Corinthian's Phasing-Out
Corinthian Colleges and the Education Department strike a deal to keep the for-profit chain afloat long enough to sell or "teach out" its 107 campuses.
Opinion
Don’t Capitulate. Advocate.
The MLA's proposed reforms for graduate education need to be challenged, write 10 humanities scholars.
Mentor or Risk Rejection
Some professors applying for NSF grants notice their proposals are increasingly evaluated in part on data-driven evidence of the way they work with students. Not everybody likes the trend.
Top Students Shun Teaching
Teacher training programs in Australia are attracting fewer and fewer of the brightest students entering the country's universities.
Holding Off on Gay Faculty
Pressure grows at Mennonite institutions to end ban on hiring non-straight professors. Eastern Mennonite U., which many hoped was about to shift, declines to do so. But it leaves in place suspension of policy.
More 'Intentionality' Needed
Adjuncts became the majority teaching force haphazardly over many decades, participants at TIAA-CREF symposium say. Now it's time to focus on creating better ways to employ the non-tenured.
Opinion
A Question for Every Answer
David N. DeVries considers what it means to live a life grounded in the liberal arts.
A College Loses Accreditation
Southern accreditor strips its approval from Georgia's Brewton-Parker College, and places four others -- Louisiana, Newberry and Paine Colleges and South Carolina State -- on probation.