Filter & Sort
New Visa Protocols Cause Delays
Students and exchange scholars are being referred to secondary inspection under policies put in place after the Boston Marathon bombings. Reported delays range from 20 minutes to three hours.
Low Bar, High Failure
Community colleges expect little of their first-year students, study finds, but students fail to meet even low standards.
Price of a Bad Economy
Discount rates at private colleges continue to grow, according to annual survey, reflecting the myriad pressures that are weakening college pricing power.
Opinion
Trauma, Teaching and Tamerlan
Wick Sloane, a one-time Boston Marathoner, reflects on a surprise on a 2007 class list.
Faculty vs. Accreditor
With City College of San Francisco facing possible accreditor-mandated shutdown, faculty unions urge agency to back down, arguing that review was flawed and tainted by conflicts of interest.
Reserve Judgment
State lawmakers say the U. of Wisconsin system’s budget balances are excessive. Higher education officials say that criticism is a misreading of how university budgets work. It’s not the first such conflict, and it won’t be the last.
Only Sometimes for Online
Community college students prefer face-to-face courses over online ones in certain subjects and when they think a course is important, challenging or interesting, a study finds.
Ed Tech and the Establishment
Community colleges talk up promise of free and self-paced online course content at two-year association's annual meeting.