Institutions

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.

In an unusual move for a community college, Wake Tech is offering some faculty traditional professor ranks -- and raises.

Rather than dismiss competency-based education as shallow, colleges that emphasize the physical campus should work to document the learning that can occur only in that setting, writes W. Kent Barnds.

Politicians in three states want two years of tuition-free community college. Higher education experts welcome the attention, but worry about unintended consequences.

Drexel University takes its bachelor's degrees and faculty to three community college campuses, an unusual move for a private university.

At one small liberal arts college, retiring professors get one last chance to teach that course they've always wanted to.