Filter & Sort
Cut the Clutter
Too many adjectives and adverbs spoil academic broth, scholar argues.
Boost for Udacity Project
Student performance is up, retention is down, and San Jose State University's partnership with a MOOC provider is still on pause for the fall.
College for Free
Change everything about how higher ed is funded and public colleges can offer free tuition, a new book argues.
Opinion
Off the Clock
Whatever happened to the shrinking work week that futurologists used to worry about? Scott McLemee checks into a volume in the field of leisure studies.
Newly Tenured ... at Bloomburg, Frostburg, Ursinus
The following individuals have recently been awarded tenure by their colleges and universities: Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania Eric Affsprung, academic...
Opinion
Isn't Learning Part of 'Value'?
President Obama is right to want colleges to prove their worth – but his “myopic” plan ignores how much students learn, writes Richard Hersh.
2 Years for Law School?
President Obama endorses idea that legal education is too expensive and too long.
Opinion
So You Think You Can Think
To teach a course about reality TV, Dominic Pettman turned his class into a reality TV show.