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The College Sports Bubble
The American system of high-powered intercollegiate athletics is heading for a fall, Richard Vedder writes -- unless burgeoning scandals and problems compel changes.
Less Academically Adrift?
Challenging findings of landmark 2011 study, new data suggest that college students make significantly bigger gains in critical thinking. But differences in methodology may contribute to the differing conclusions.
Motivation Matters
ETS releases a new test to measure students' non-academic skills. Colleges want to use test for advising and finding remedial students with "grit."
Career Services Must Die
Colleges are not professionally developing students the way they should be, and the solution is to blow up the current system and follow a new blueprint, report argues.
Let's Not Talk About It
Otterbein stops requiring victims of sexual assault to sign form saying they should not discuss the matter.
Coaching, Off the Field
A year of heading the student affairs division at Akron has opened the eyes of Jim Tressel, best known as the former and embattled Ohio State football coach, to the pitfalls of athletics and challenges of working in higher education.
In Gun Limbo
Pennsylvania's state universities allow guns on campus per legal advice from the system, which then issues a freeze on further policy changes.
Flip-Flop or Fair Play?
The decision by college presidents who run the NCAA's Division I to axe a new academic standard for athletic eligibility is irking some faculty members, but presidents say its effects could have been more negative than positive.