Filter & Sort
CCSF Back on the Brink
Taxpayers in California and San Francisco helped City College sort out its accreditation crisis and loss of a third of its students. But the new money runs dry soon, and faculty plan strike next week over brewing budget fight.
Accreditor Victory in Duel With CFPB
Federal judge rules Consumer Financial Protection Bureau lacks the authority to investigate for-profit-college accreditors.
Sudden Departure at For-Profit Accreditor
Head of embattled for-profit-college agency resigns.
Reprieve at Hope College
Board drops plan to fire president immediately but may do so next month. Case is latest in which campus leaders face ouster from trustees, despite strong backing from students, professors and alumni.
New Presidents or Provosts: Capital U, Eastern Michigan U, Geneva College, Hawaii Pacific U, Marist College, National U, Stanford U, Utica College, William Jewell U
Debra Bean, provost of National University, in California, has been selected as president of John F. Kennedy University, also in...
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.