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Wealth Shock
Losing your wealth can have devastating consequences. In today's Academic Minute, the University of Michigan's Carlos Mendes de Leon examines...
Free Digital Textbooks vs. Purchased Commercial Textbooks
Open educational resources have saved students millions of dollars, but can they also improve students’ grades?
Is There a Right to Know a College Might Close?
After Mount Ida College closure, Massachusetts proposals grapple with whether colleges should disclose shutdown possibilities and when regulators should step in.
Israeli University Officials Protest Blocked Appointment
Israel’s science minister, Ofir Akunis, blocked the appointment of Yael Amitai, a prominent brain scientist, to a binational German-Israeli science...
The Week in Admissions News
Cowboys as marketing theme; student loan game show; politics of free college; low-income students at selective colleges.
CASE Acquires Voluntary Support of Education Survey
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education has acquired the Voluntary Support of Education survey from the Council for...
The 'Professor' Who Duped Me
Conservative talk show host says Sacha Baron Cohen posed as Reed professor for comedy show on politics. Reed says ploy demonstrates a misunderstanding of what it's about, but that it's honored -- sort of. Maybe.
Transfers Up at University of California Campuses
System notoriously hard to get into sees notable increase in those coming from state's community colleges -- and also gains in minority enrollments through that route.