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Hitting Pause on Class Videos

A trade group goes after UCLA for posting copyrighted videos on course Web sites -- and hints that other colleges might be next.

Outsourcing Language Learning

A decade after Drake U. pioneered system favoring native speakers over traditional faculty, a few other colleges are trying the approach and the university is taking its concept online.

Freshmen Abandon Business

Amid recession, incoming students find field of study less appealing than ever, according to national survey.

Rethinking Science Education

Presidents of liberal arts colleges are urged to move away from single discipline, traditional introductory courses.

Are American Students Lazy?

Adjunct's column, comparing them unfavorably to her foreign students, sets off debate over work ethic.

Hybrid Education 2.0

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have developed an online learning environment that could make lecture halls -- if not professors -- obsolete.

Religious Revival

Religion displaces culture as top theme of interest to historians, especially those early in their careers. Military and political subjects also see gains, while social history continues long drop.

Russia(n) Is Back

Whether it's Putin or Pushkin, student interest is sending language enrollments to levels unheard of since the Cold War.