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Resisting the Panopticon

It’s fine for faculty to choose to record lectures for students, but systems more or less foisted on them from the top down pose serious threats to academic freedom, argues Michael Schwalbe.

A New Push to Create a 3-Year Degree Option

Higher education thought leaders and colleges are working together to create a three-year bachelor’s degree program that will offer all the value of a four-year degree—for less cost.

The Grade Inflation–College Completion Connection

New research argues that increases in GPAs are responsible for the rise in college completion rates since the 1990s.

New Programs: Cannabis Science, Engineering, Bilingual Journalism, Data Science, Occupational Therapy

Community College of Denver is launching a bachelor of applied science degree in cannabis science and operations. Front Range Community...

Humanities Graduates Are Happy With Their Lives

A new survey found that more than 90 percent of graduates are happy with their lives, despite all the pundits who say they shouldn’t be.

New Programs: Data Analytics, Management and Risk, Health Care and Spanish, Mental Health, Nursing

Bowie State University is starting a certificate program in data analytics. North Carolina State University has started a master’s degree...
Opinion

It’s Time to Open the Black Boxes

As remote testing becomes pervasive, colleges should ask some fundamental and wide-ranging questions, Jeremy Epstein and Christopher Kang write.
Opinion

Making Lectures More Interactive

Faculty members can make them even more effective, Marion Menzin and Zachary Nowak advise, by increasing the involvement of the other professional teachers in the classroom: the teaching assistants.