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New Presidents or Provosts: Kellogg CC, Montgomery County CC, Lincoln U, Point Park U, San Jose State U, Sonoma State U, U of New Hampshire, U of North Carolina Wilmington
Mark O'Connell, interim president of Kellogg Community College, in Michigan, has been named to the job on a permanent basis...
Opinion
Improving With Age
Most colleges put student work at the center of how they measure academic quality, writes Peter Ewell, who argues that abandoning student learning outcomes would be a serious mistake.
Opinion
SLO Madness
The student learning outcomes accreditors require too often reduce learning to inane, meaningless blurbs, writes Robert Shireman, which prevent the sort of quality assurance that puts student work at the center.
Law School Co-Deans: 'Like a Marriage'
Over the last few years, universities started appointing two deans to lead their law schools temporarily. Now, a few are going that route with permanent appointments.
When RPI Banned Protest, It Became a Class
What started as a movement about changes to the student union turned into a debate about free speech.
Competency for the Traditional-Age Student
Accreditor approves Purdue's new competency-based bachelor's degree, which blends technical disciplines with the humanities and has a customizable approach designed more for a career than a first job.
New Presidents or Provosts: Eastern Maine CC, Marygrove College, Pitzer College, Southern College of Optometry, State Center CC District, Taylor U, U of Maine-Fort Kent, Westminster College (Pa.)
Elizabeth Burns, interim provost of Marygrove College, in Michigan, has been selected as president there. Paul Lowell Haines, a partner...
'Lesson Plan'
Two former college presidents, both longtime scholars of higher education, discuss their new book on the problems -- real and imagined -- facing academe.