Faculty Issues

Educators shouldn't be so quick to embrace a critique of colleges that is based on a narrow testing tool, writes Robert J. Sternberg.

As U.S. panel studying accreditation begins to set agenda, it is urged to focus on "prodding" over "fixing."

Historically, universities such as Columbia, Oxford, Yale, Princeton and Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have defined their value...

Lynn University in Florida finds a way to answer general critiques of academic quality: a return to a retooled core curriculum.

Hungarian-born physicist Edward Teller was among the great scientists of the 20th century, but his legacy is, at best, a...

Colleges experiment with metacognition as a means to change behaviors and improve performance.

Nearly four decades after its passage, Title IX remains the object of much contention in academe and beyond -- particularly...

Lumina releases draft "profile" of what students at various levels should know and be able to do, regardless of discipline; accreditors and private colleges to test it.