Opinion

Electronic collections help show the range of students' work, but are not standardized or scalable enough to be used for broad assessment purposes, write Richard Shavelson, Stephen Klein and Roger Benjamin.

Should a college doing layoffs simultaneously fund sabbaticals? First, some context. My college doesn't have a publication requirement for faculty...

A long time ago, in a college that now seems to be a galaxy far, far away, I started my...

The Chronicle's article "Open Courses: Free, but Oh, So Costly" provides one model for open courseware. This M.I.T. model costs...

Any real debate is over. Take a look at the following, and then let's talk about whose words these are...

In the last couple of months, my husband and I were both “furloughed”: we were each informed by our respective...

Among all the issues in higher education today, retention once again captures our attention. Most influential is the publication of...

Here’s the set-up; you have until Friday at 4:00 to answer: You’re teaching an introductory survey for non-majors to a...