Filter & Sort
Accreditation Fast Track?
Proposal circulating on Capitol Hill asks accreditors to create a way for new providers to gain approval more quickly.
Plagiarizing Across Europe
Many students in many countries don't know what the rules are, study finds.
Textbook Transparency and Pricing
Publishers, bookstores and professors are complying with federal provisions to make textbook pricing more transparent for students. But prices are still high.
The Mom Penalty
A decadelong research initiative out of the University of California at Berkeley culminates in a detailed look at the effects of children on men's and women's academic careers.
Journalism Center a Target
Wisconsin lawmakers introduced a motion that would expel the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from the UW-Madison campus and bar university employees from working with the nonprofit.
'Mothers in Academia'
Editors discuss themes of new collection of essays on challenges faced by academic women with children.
Opinion
Competence, Technology, and Their Discontents
Higher education is buzzing about competency-based education. We've been here before, writes Clifford Adelman, and the question this time is: Will we make it mean something?
How To Provide Open Access?
As the Obama administration works on a policy to provide free access to taxpayer-funded research, publishers and universities advance competing plans for archives -- but some scholars say a government archive is the way to go.