In less than a week, six elite U.S. law schools have opted out of U.S. News & World Report's rankings of the best law schools due to its "profoundly flawed" methodology, according to Harvard Law School Dean Heather K. Gerken.
The sudden onset of the COVID-19 pandemic made digital literacy more urgent than ever on college campuses. Some institutions scrambled to update their digital communication tools for remote learning. Even better-prepared institutions had to ditch the training wheels to continue pursuing student learning objectives in the face of unprecedented times. By now, remote learning […]
Enthusiasm continues to build for replacing standardized exams with more "authentic assessments" such as research projects, presentations and portfolios of other high school work.
It has embraced "hybrid learning and turned it on its ears." And it is incredibly open-minded when it comes to collaboration, something that can be a lesson for other institutions and programs struggling to make headway.
In 2020, the Association of American Universities, under the watch of then President Mary Sue Coleman, released a report on the state of sexual assaults on college campuses. Among the "disturbing" statistics cited was that 13% of all students have been victims. Coleman, now the President at the University of Michigan, called the increasing patterns […]
