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Americans Give Good Grades to 2-Year, 4-Year Colleges
A new poll by Gallup finds that Americans give fairly similar grades, and positive ones, to two-year and four-year colleges...
Scrutiny for Accreditors on Poor Student Outcomes
This has been a rough week for higher education accreditors. Days after a Wall Street Journal article raised questions about...
Academic Minute: Creativity and Community
In today's Academic Minute, Robert Edgell, a professor of technology management at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute...
First-Generation Students and Academic Preparation
A new report from ACT and the Council for Opportunity in Education found that the vast majority of first-generation students...
Education Adds Likelihood of Holding Work Credential
A new report from the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics shows that the proportion of adults...
McCaskill Tells Campus Police to Investigate Assaults More Quickly
Speaking at the Campus Safety Nation Forum on Thursday, Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, urged college law enforcement officers...
Guidelines Promote Transparency, Honesty in Science
Scholars affiliated with the Center for Open Science, a nonprofit, have published in Science a set of guidelines designed to...
Education Dept. Selects Official to Develop Debt Relief Process
The U.S. Department of Education announced Joseph A. Smith has been appointed as special master to help the department and...