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Badging From Within
A digital badging project at UC Davis is drawing notice, but the innovation looks more like competency-based education than a form of alternative credentials.
Cooper Union Divided
An 18-member panel has a plan to save Cooper Union without charging tuition. The blueprint already has opponents inside the administration.
Go Easy on MOOCs
President Obama's science and technology council recommends the federal government and regional accreditors get out of the way for MOOCs.
New Presidents or Provosts: Clemson U., Hopkinsville CC, Millikin U., Mississippi Valley State U., Spring Hill College, Technical College of the Lowcountry
Jay S. Allen, vice president of the Perkinston Campus and George County Center of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College...
Two Hats, One Man
A small college has a business school dean who is also the CFO. Can it work?
Policy Denied
Santa Clara U.'s Faculty Senate has deemed the administration's new exclusion of elective abortions from insurance coverage "invalid," and wants the Board of Trustees to take up the matter.
Opinion
Change Is Coming
Current business models and out-of-date curricular and teaching models need to be reformed for higher education to fulfill its crucial roles, writes Dan Greenstein.
Accreditation Agita (Update: Accreditor Extended)
As federal panel weighs fate of agency that withdrew support from City College of San Francisco, lawmakers on Capitol Hill ponder future role for the government in accreditation.