Filter & Sort
Induced to Fail?
Excelsior College, the world's largest distance educator of nurses, is sued by former students alleging the institution deceived them.
'Reconsidering College'
Author discusses new book arguing that Christian adults should consider Christian colleges and that those institutions should embrace the nontraditional market.
For-Profit Tax Breaks
Grand Canyon University, an Arizona-based for-profit higher ed provider, is asking the state legislature for tax breaks as it expands.
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.
For-Profit Students' Ambivalence
For-profit colleges' students and alumni generally praise their experience but question the value of their degrees, a study finds.
Opinion
'Competency' and Residential Colleges
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.
Rank and File
In an unusual move for a community college, Wake Tech is offering some faculty traditional professor ranks -- and raises.
Is Free Better?
Politicians in three states want two years of tuition-free community college. Higher education experts welcome the attention, but worry about unintended consequences.