Learning & Assessment

Biennial "Measuring Up" report card on higher education progress won't be published this year, as founder looks for a new home and new backers for it.

Education Department proposes stripping recognition from agency that accredits liberal arts institutions.

A new alliance of college presidents was born today, aiming both to show the world that colleges are working to...

The assessment movement has inspired valuable research and numerous organizations, but Linda Suskie asks whether colleges really know why these efforts matter.

As largest regional accreditor toughens stance on for-profit colleges, two major companies, Bridgepoint and Argosy, seek shift to Western region -- which says it won't be a patsy.

Critics of for-profit higher education have of late drawn attention to what they see as a pattern of "accreditation shopping"...

One of the country's six regional accrediting agencies risks losing its federal recognition if it is unable to alter its...