Curriculum

University that locked out its faculty in the fall is now telling professors they must shrink the core curriculum within a year and make do without majors such as philosophy and math.

Princeton general-education proposal would require all students -- even those already proficient in a foreign language -- to study a language other than English. Most of the shrinking number of institutions with requirements let students test out of them.

Academic at center of dispute at Seattle University -- subject of lengthy sit-in demanding her ouster and protest defending her -- will retire.

John Fea, a history chair, describes what he learned on his daughter's college tours about the presence or absence of a liberal arts ethos.

Dick Gregory writes that students who are protesting against a dean who recommended his autobiography should think about which battles matter the most.

Students are so busy singing in a cappella groups, planting trees for the environment and playing intramural ultimate Frisbee that they're being robbed of their education, argues William Hurst.

Southern Utah University goes all in with an experiment on general education, combining 13 courses into one year of material that eight professors jointly teach.