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Should Harvard Rename Med School for $1 Billion?
Harvard University, which has lagged other colleges in selling naming rights for academic colleges, has done so twice in recent...
Mills Goes Test Optional in Admissions
Mills College announced last week that it will no longer require the SAT or ACT for admissions. College officials cited...
Heart Failure
Reducing heart failures in the U.S. could save millions of people. In today's Academic Minute, New York Institute of Technology's...
Faulty Predictions?
New study suggests the SAT may over- or underpredict first-year college grades of hundreds of thousands of students.
Divided Over Diversity
Did Baylor U's new provost step down over faculty objections to his diversity initiative, in particular his plan to hire a chief diversity officer? Does diversity look different at a Christian university?
Are Academics Disproportionately Gay?
A new analysis suggests that's the case, and that academic work -- at once solitary and social in nature -- makes it particularly attractive to those who are not straight.
Academic Minute: Heart Failure
Today on the Academic Minute, Martin Gerdes, professor of biomedical sciences at the New York Institute of Technology, delves into...
The Rise of Competency-Based Education
Inside Higher Ed is pleased to release today “The Rise of Competency-Based Education,” our latest print-on-demand compilation of articles. This...