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Looking Back on This Year's Classroom Experiments
Last fall, professors told us about their plans to experiment this year with technology-enabled teaching. Now they reflect on the successes and shortcomings.
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.
The Next Stage for NC-SARA
A national group dedicated to coordinating state approval of online programs selects a new leader and plans to focus more on program quality.
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.
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.
No Crime Found in Sleeping With 2 Students
Pennsylvania appeals court rules in favor of Bloomsburg U professor fired for sleeping with two students.