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Predicting Success
Using big data to improve completion rates, and also to give realistic indicators of how both students and instructors are performing.
Remembering the Alamo (Faculty)
Accreditor responds to Alamo Colleges professors' concerns about a new core curriculum course inspired by The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
Starting All Over Again
Community college students who transfer to a four-year institution have good odds of earning a bachelor's degree, new research finds, unless they lose credits in the transfer process.
Not So Different
New Stanford programs aim to give computer science students a boost -- by adding arts and humanities.
Better Late Than Never?
Ending late registration for courses may help more community college students get to graduation, but it also challenges deeply held views about student access, and can hurt enrollment levels.
Questioning Value of 'Janterm'
While many liberal arts colleges love these intense periods for nontraditional study, Doane has decided that this year's was the last.
Who Should Teach Ethnic Studies?
Cal State Los Angeles professors vote to require all students to take a course in race or ethnicity, but fail to adopt proposal that course be taught in ethnic studies department.
Humanities or Self-Help?
Replacing a required humanities course with a class based on the popular self-help book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has faculty up in arms at one community college.