Measuring faculty effectiveness has never been a perfect science—and it has always held potential for contention among instructors and administrators.
Today, tighter budgets, greater demands...
While most libraries have cleared out hundreds, if not thousands, of books from their shelves, that doesn’t mean they have surrendered square footage.
In fact,...
While 98 percent of librarians in a 2015 Gale/Library Journal survey wished for better communication with faculty, only 45 percent of faculty expressed the...
As the definition of student success continues to expand beyond retention and graduation rates, its physical presence on many campuses is also beginning to...
The growing view of higher education as a global commodity has driven many ambitious institutions to deepen their international presence by setting up shop...
Thirty percent of higher ed students today are the first in their family to attend college, while 24 percent—4.5 million—are both first-generation and low-income.
That...
Ohio State, Arizona State, Creighton (Neb.), Bentley (Mass.), George Mason (Va.) and Purdue (Ind.) universities are among the first that have hired Gallup to...
What college students are learning—and how—has become a mainstream talking point across the political spectrum.
Much of this talk concerns dollars and cents—namely, cost and...
Appalachian State University (N.C.): Policy says that faculty should generally not be paid extra for teaching courses on top of normal course loads. It...
Managing course scheduling involves more than just cracking a complex logistical code each semester. It’s also a potential bane or boon to the operating...
While video’s presence in higher learning is undoubtedly expanding, the frequency and extent to which it is being used varies widely—even within institutions.
At the...
Textbook publishing has long been seen as an impenetrable business, with five major players controlling most of the nearly $14 billion industry. But in...
Workforce development has long been a bastion of the community college environment. But with student-loan debt topping $1 trillion and enrollments falling, many four-year...
