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Credit Hour (Still) Rules
Despite conventional wisdom, Western Governors U. did not earn approval to award federal aid by directly assessing how much students learned. It ties student outcomes to the credit hour (though not to seat time).
Banking on Success
Texas technical colleges want to link 45 percent of their operating budget to the employment success of graduates.
Testing for Better Writers
Decades ago, two colleges in Virginia decided all students would need to pass essay exam to graduate. Old Dominion just dropped the unusual requirement, while Hampden-Sydney has no intention of doing so.
Foundations' Newfound Advocacy
Study documents how Gates and Lumina -- by collaborating with government, funding intermediaries, and investing heavily in messaging -- have reshaped the philanthropic role in higher education, for better and worse.
Last Rites for Graduation Rate
The Education Department plans to change widely disparaged federal definition of completion rate to include transfers and nontraditional students.
Minutemen and Patriots
Massachusetts is believed to be the first state system to mandate civic engagement measurement.
Standardized Tests That Fail
Standardized tests are placing community college students who are ready for college into remedial classes, two studies find, making them less likely to earn degrees.
'Tuning' History
In first effort of its kind in the U.S., a discipline works to define what graduates of its programs should be able to do -- from associate degree through the Ph.D.