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Plug-and-Play Online Courses: Innovation or Dystopia?
Template structures for online courses are becoming more common across higher ed. While they can create efficiency, some instructors worry they're stamping out individual agency.
Partnership Seeks to Bolster Information on Digital Credentials
Credential Engine, creator of a national directory of degrees, diplomas, digital badges and other nondegree credentials, is teaming up with...
Mass Hysteria
Mass hysteria is often different from what we imagine. In today's Academic Minute, the University of South Carolina's Barry Markovsky...
Does USC Need More Housecleaning?
Scandal-plagued University of Southern California has a new president coming in, but many believe the institution can't really change without a true overhaul of its large and quarrelsome Board of Trustees.
No Crime Found in Sleeping With 2 Students
Pennsylvania appeals court rules in favor of Bloomsburg U professor fired for sleeping with two students.
Connecting Federal Work-Study to Careers
DeVos plans a pilot program that will allow colleges to use Federal Work-Study funds for private-sector employment. Department also seeks to expand experiment providing Pell Grants to incarcerated students.
Boost for Community Colleges Means 1-Year Bust for Universities
New analysis of Oregon Promise tuition-free scholarship program found that it increased community college enrollment but decreased enrollment at four-year institutions in the first year, and that fewer first-generation and low-income students benefited financially than expected.
Dog Days in Dorms
Colleges see sharp increase in students who want emotional support animals to live with them. Administrators worry those students may not have a real need but want their pets as companions.