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Open Courseware in the Liberal Arts
Saint Michael's College thinks persuading its faculty to use free courseware from peer institutions could improve its liberal arts curriculum.
When Writing Class Moves Online
Composition association finds that colleges are just beginning to consider implications of shifting key part of the curriculum away from face-to-face instruction.
Express Lane to a B.A.
A year after politicians and pundits started talking about three-year degrees, more colleges are starting programs or considering them.
New Battleground for Publishers
With demand for online assessment and e-tutoring tools growing, good textbooks alone are no longer enough to win over professors.
'Harnessing America's Wasted Talent'
Peter P. Smith's career in and out of higher education has not followed the straight and narrow. Amid forays into...
'The Intimate University'
Even as Asian-American enrollments grow at leading American universities, relatively little in-depth work has been done that focuses on growing...
Imperfect Accountability
Voluntary systems crafted by colleges to respond to public demand for data fall well short of their stated goals, two advocacy groups argue.