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A Curriculum to Copy?
The Minerva Project's big contribution to higher education might not be its vision of an elite, global university, but the groundbreaking curriculum it hopes to export to universities around the world.
Smartphones for All Students: An Academic Equalizer in an Era of Income Inequality?
An academic prompts debate after commenting on low-income students’ need for smartphones and how lack of access to the devices can hurt college performance.
Consolidating Instead of Merging
As some small private colleges merge with one another, others simply contract, closing up branch campuses -- some of them long-standing and hundreds of miles away.
Digital Learning in 'Inside Higher Ed' This Week
Among the topics: U.S. to examine online "enablers"; federal aid and alternative providers; autograding run amok; two professors ask: Should we teach online?
Academic Minute: Improving Brain-Computer Interfaces
In today's Academic Minute, part of University at Albany Week, Tolga Soyata, associate professor in the department of electrical and...
Global Attack on Gender Studies
Scholars say their field is coming under increasing pressures from forces outside the academy who want to delegitimize it.
Broader College Completion Data From the Feds
The federal government on Tuesday released an early look at student completion data that it collected as part of a...
Neil deGrasse Tyson Responds to Allegations
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, responded to recent sexual misconduct allegations...