Online learning, specifically MOOCs, has inspired many doomsday forecasts regarding the fate of traditional higher education—which, of course, has yet to collapse.
But the predicted...
A push for coed fraternities has spawned a lawsuit at Wesleyan University, while a directive from the administration at Trinity College, also in Connecticut,...
Commencement speakers have become another point of financial scrutiny in higher ed, with an annual flurry of students crying foul on both the person...
Attending class as a robot
There’s a new attendance option for online students of Michigan State University’s educational psychology and educational technology doctoral program: They...
Higher ed institutions are expanding interdisciplinary research activity by hiring groups of faculty from multiple disciplines at the same time. The idea, pioneered by...
A small group of Tufts University students mounted a six-day hunger strike in May, but their target wasn’t fossil fuel divestment or nuclear disarmament....
Bolstering student interest in STEM subjects is a priority for many schools, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County is finding success on an...
Admissions marketing pros have heard a wide variety of reasons why prospective students don’t believe they can go—or go back—to college.
Park University in Missouri’s...
As high-profile racial incidents on college campuses make headlines across the country, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is grappling with controversy...
When Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed into law a controversial “religious freedom” bill, he probably didn’t expect the backlash that resulted. Although supporters claim...
