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Enjoying White House Attention
For colleges and other organizations promoting alternative paths to degrees, the president's speech was validation they have wanted.
Whose Mindset?
As Beloit releases annual compilation of what this year's freshmen know and don't, two anonymous professors from other colleges unveil a website designed to mock and destroy the list.
Feminist Anti-MOOC
Can education be free and online and yet reject some of the choices made by proponents of massive open online courses? A class about to debut aims to show what's possible.
'Real Education'
Mark Edmundson's latest book is a battle cry to professors and students who want to preserve a "real education," increasingly under threat, he says.
Experimental College's First Graduate
Competency-based education takes a major step forward in its challenge to seat time as College for America awards its first degree.
Charting a Course
In report to faculty and students, UT president outlines principles for online education and asks for greater input from professors.
‘Majoring in a Professor’
Students select or reject majors based in large part on the quality of the first college instructor they have in the discipline, new research finds.
Opinion
Democratic Limits of "Customized"
It its industrial approach to efficiency, competency-based education shortchanges less-affluent student and contributes to stratification, Amy Slaton writes.