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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.
Accreditation Outside the Academy
As boot camps, online courses and other nontraditional academic offerings expand, several organizations angle to play an accreditor-like role in the growing space.
New Presidents or Provosts: Cazenovia College, Chamberlain College of Nursing-Houston, Cuyahoga CC-Western, National U, Southern Methodist U, U of Maine-Fort Kent, U of Texas-Austin
David W. Andrews, dean and professor of Johns Hopkins University School of Education, in Maryland, has been named president of...
New Presidents or Provosts: Baker College System, Brock U, California State U-Long Beach, Drake U, National U, Old Dominion U, St. Mary's U, Whitman College
Augustine (Austin) O. Agho, dean of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, has been...