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Giving 'Voice to Faculty'

Cathy Trower, closing out 16 years leading a research effort of academic work, shares thoughts on tenure, retirement age, adjunct conditions and more.

What Goes into a Degree?

UConn's stalled proposal to limit outside credits earned by non-transfer students generates controversy and may be a sign of future tussles to come over "unbundled" degrees.
Opinion

Make Placement a Priority

Higher ed is at risk if colleges don't focus more on helping graduates find jobs, writes Michael Bugeja.

Adding Competency to Community

Western Governors University teams up with 11 community colleges to create new competency-based programs.

Cleaning House

How is a new president supposed to clean house? Dos and don'ts from a presidency-cut-short at U. of Wyoming.

A Small College's Demise

A union-backed college is forced to shut down. To blame: debt on campus renovations, online effort that didn't work, and waning support from organized labor. Are there lessons for other colleges?

'Classrooms of Shame'

Fed up with unanswered maintenance requests and substandard instructional facilities, some professors are taking a new approach: "shaming" their institutions into action.

Near Equity for Female Trustees

Women hold 43 percent of the seats on the governing boards and councils of Australian universities -- far more than in the U.S.