“Sophomore,” fittingly, is derived from the Greek word meaning wise fool. From finding a major to deciding whether to study abroad—and questioning their identity in and outside of the classroom—it’s a time when students settle in at school and begin realizing the decisions they make will impact the rest of their college careers. Traditionally, student […]

Eight prominent universities—including University of Pennsylvania, Duke, Emory, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt and others—were hit with separate lawsuits in August 2016 alleging the institutions mishandled their employee retirement plans. While the institutions fight those lawsuits, experts have predicted the complaints are just the first of many to be filed against colleges and universities that sponsor 401(k) […]

Remember Rate My Professor, the website that allows college students to rate faculty performance? While that site isn’t tied to any ideology, a new conservative website makes no attempt to disguise its motive. The Professor Watchlist, launched last fall by the nonprofit Turning Point USA, challenges students: “Help us expose and document college professors who […]

Video has become a common tool in classroom instruction. And as new pedagogies such as the flipped classroom and student recordings join established uses such as lecture capture and event live streaming, the amount of video most institutions create and manage will only grow. It’s important to invest in a solution for video that can […]