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NSF's Foray Into Defining Job Skills

The federal agency is conducting a two-phase experiment to design tools to better understand career trajectories of its employees and the rest of the federal work force.
Opinion

Focus on the Students When a College Closes

To help manage career college closures and protect students, Steve Gunderson backs a proposal for the sector to fund a new federal coordinating office.

Consolidating Instead of Merging

As some small private colleges merge with one another, others simply contract, closing up branch campuses -- some of them long-standing and hundreds of miles away.
Opinion

Learning for a Lifetime

A 100-year life requires a 60-year curriculum, writes Rovy Branon.
Opinion

Veterans Day 2018

Highly selective colleges enroll modestly more veterans. And 100 higher ed leaders gather in Washington this week to keep veteran enrollments rising. That's progress, right? Wick Sloane asks.

Momentum for Prison Education

Prison education programs are thriving and enjoy bipartisan backing, but colleges say they could do more with federal and state funding.

Coaxing Dropouts to Return and Earn Degrees

Colleges are hoping a new initiative will help them encourage former students who stopped out to return and complete their degrees.

Frustrations Over Consumer Tool

The Trump administration's changes to a key transparency tool have frustrated even some supporters among veterans' groups.