Faculty Issues

The assessment movement has inspired valuable research and numerous organizations, but Linda Suskie asks whether colleges really know why these efforts matter.

To begin an article by saying that American higher education is in a state of crisis would be -- at...

Analysis of cheating research finds that key factor isn't whether the course is online, but whether anyone is watching how students take the tests.

It has long been said that the winners write the history books -- but those keeping the records may also...

Effort by leading research universities to rethink the economics of scholarly journals has an underwhelming first year, and experts caution against expectations of quick change.

Each fall brings articles about rising Asian-American enrollments at leading colleges and universities. But according to Robert T. Teranishi, associate...

Purdue U. creates a learning-management system that meets students on their turf and puts them in charge.

Lobbying for cheaper books, a student activist group throws its weight behind an open-source model.