Filter & Sort
Quest for 'Genius Babies'?
Jason Richwine quit Heritage Foundation amid controversy over his Harvard dissertation on race and IQ. Critics are now raising questions about work by a Michigan State physicist and vice president.
The Fine Print
The details behind Georgia Tech's new deal with Udacity: big dollars and new types of instructional aides -- including some who work for the outside company.
Fast Track or End Run?
UCLA tells professors not to apply for new grants from pharmaceutical company, saying that the requirements violate university rules.
Harvard Profs Push Back
58 arts and sciences faculty members want a committee created to consider ethical issues related to the MOOC provider edX -- not just for the university, but for higher education broadly.
Doctoring the Doctorate
Stanford pledges to pay for a master's in education for humanities Ph.D.s who want to become high school teachers.
Opinion
Higher Ed in 2018
Jeb Bush and Randy Best predict a period of significant change for colleges and universities -- from a provider-driven model to a consumer-driven model.
Virtual Lab Experiment
The Cal State chancellor's office is looking to break the course bottleneck and, in the process, could change life sciences education by ending in-person lab experience for many non-majors.
Confusion in the Cloud
Adobe faces questions from higher education officials who say that new pricing plans are hard to understand and may represent large increases in fees.