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Executive Power and the Electoral College
How did the Electoral College come to be? In today's Academic Minute, Stanford University's Jack Rakove explores the origin of...
Impact and Nonimpact of Online Competition
Paper finds growth of fully online degree programs led to increased spending and falling enrollments at some place-based colleges, but had little impact on tuition rates.
Can Your Productivity Be Measured?
Book offers critique of uses of big data to measure the output of professors and institutions, arguing that technique is equivalent to “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”
Bizarre Flash Mob Attack on Temple U Students
Many Temple University students were unnerved and some were attacked Friday when a flash mob-style group of youths gathered near...
Academic Minute: Executive Power and the Electoral College
Today on the Academic Minute, Jack Rakove, professor of history and political science at Stanford University, explores the origin of...
'The Have and Have-Not Gap'
At meeting of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, sports leaders express concern about "out of control" spending among top conferences. So far, colleges don't appear to be trying to reverse course.
Concern on Writing Instructor Jobs at Ohio State U
Faculty members in English at Ohio State University say 18 non-tenure-track lecturer jobs have been saved, at least for this...
New College Promise Database
The College Promise Campaign released its first report Monday examining more than 150 Promise programs across 37 states that are...