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Stuck on Student Learning

As Measuring Up 2008 prepares to grade higher education progress on a variety of fronts, most states' efforts to gauge academic outcomes have stalled, writes Peter Ewell.

Higher Education in the Age of Obama

Academics may need a reality check about what may and may not be possible in the new administration, writes Arthur Levine.

'Who Moved My Cheese,' Higher Ed-Style

Mice in a maze and little people: for many (especially faculty) who work in higher education on any number of...

Lessons of a Summer Teaching Online

Amy Overman found rewards, but not those she expected, in her first experience offering a class through distance education.

Turning a Page

What should the president-elect study between now and the inauguration? Scott McLemee presents a reading list.

Application, U.S. Secretary of Education

Wick Sloane offers the presidential candidates his one-year plan for a federal role in education when most attention will be elsewhere.

The Incredible Vanishing Book

Christopher Conway knows why traditional publishing models aren't working, but he writes that scholars should still resist a bit -- and mourn what is being lost.

I'm Leaving

I distinctly recall the first day of graduate school. Some of my classmates knew the field’s top-tier journals, the term...