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Graduation Gap Widens
Public colleges are increasing students' overall graduation rates, but a study finds the gap between black and white students continues to widen.
In Tenn., Politics or Good Policy?
New piece of governor's ambitious higher ed agenda would break up statewide governing board to focus on two-year colleges and give six universities more independence. Critics predict backsliding on the state's goals and skewed institutional priorities.
Universities Account for Students in Belgium
U.S. universities scrambled to confirm the safety of students studying in Belgium in the wake of terrorist bombing attacks that...
Academic Minute: Filming Police
Today on the Academic Minute, Clay Calvert, professor of mass communication at the University of Florida, examines the issues surrounding...
Connecticut State College System Freezes Hiring
The Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system has frozen hiring at its 17 campuses at least through the end of...
New Kansas Law Lets Student Groups Bar Members Based on Belief
The governor of Kansas signed legislation Tuesday that will bar public colleges in the state from requiring student groups to...
Paper on Standardized Assessments of Learning
A new report from New America, a think tank, looks at research on the assessment of college learning. The paper...
'Confidence Rating' for On-Time Graduation
U of California at San Diego's new early warning system aims to condense millions of data points into a simple metric showing whether students will graduate on time.