Filter & Sort
Adding Good Data to Good Stories
Several dozen faculty members, administrators, employers, and others recently came together to discuss how to measure student success in the humanities. Paula M. Krebs describes some of the strategies they identified.
Moving Beyond Op-Eds
W. Robert Connor suggests five alternative -- and more effective -- ways to talk about the value of the humanities.
Enriching Public Culture
Several developments in the humanities this week are as newsworthy as the Pulitzers -- and possibly more consequential in the long run, writes Scott McLemee.
Beyond a Deficit View
Administrators and faculty members desperately need a new language to characterize minority, low-income and first-generation students -- one that frees us from dependence on labels such as “disadvantaged,” argues Byron P. White.
The Spending War on Student Recruitment
At a time when everyone should be committed to lowering the cost of college, it could trigger a windfall for education marketers and become the most expensive component of a higher education, writes John Katzman.
Jumping to Conclusions
Academic studies that have been critical of state performance-based funding policies lack the data to back up their conclusions, writes Martha Snyder, and fail to account for the design and implementation of these policies.
From Text to Treatise
How can we wean students off electronic devices and help them appreciate the transmission of ideas through the classic use of the written word? Ronald Neal Goldman provides some ideas.