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Pretext for Firing a Dissenter
Australian court threatens $2 million fine for university after concluding that it used finances as excuse to dismiss a professor for complaining about bullying tactics by her supervisor.
The Digital Sociology Classroom
Departments are offering online courses and making use of new tools for teaching, survey finds.
Less Academically Adrift?
Challenging findings of landmark 2011 study, new data suggest that college students make significantly bigger gains in critical thinking. But differences in methodology may contribute to the differing conclusions.
Missing the (Grade) Point
Study challenges assumption that professors have become more lenient in evaluating students, or that their grades have less "signaling" power. Another researcher challenges paper as inaccurate.
Opinion
Crowdsourcing the Curriculum
When humanities professors plan their courses, writes Michael P. Ryan, they should ask students what they would like to see on the syllabus.
Motivation Matters
ETS releases a new test to measure students' non-academic skills. Colleges want to use test for advising and finding remedial students with "grit."
'Redshirting' in Engineering
U. of Colorado at Boulder pioneered idea of giving some students an extra year, and now other universities are adopting the model.
Confusion on State Authorization
Education Department will delay enforcing a rule that requires states to submit evidence that colleges are authorized to operate within their borders -- and that could end colleges' aid eligibility if states don't do so.