Filter & Sort
Leveling the Field
McMaster U addresses gender pay gap by giving $3,500 raises to female faculty members.
Credit Where Credit's Due
Both individual scholars and departments are responsible for bringing digital scholarship into the mainstream, according to draft guidelines for evaluating such work published by the American Historical Association.
The Pulse: Echo360, Beyond Lecture Capture
In this month's edition of Inside Higher Ed's podcast The Pulse, Greg Golkin, head of platform innovation at Echo360, discusses Echo 360's Active Learning Platform and how the company has expanded beyond lecture capture.
Grants for Today's Student
A new report contends that state aid programs should better meet the needs of modern students in today's college landscape, which is vastly different from when most such programs were developed.
Royalties for Nazi Writings
Scholars are troubled by implications of legal battle over Goebbels’s diaries. Will researchers want to pay the heirs of fascists?
Wider-Ranging Rankings
Brookings report rates several thousand two- and four-year colleges on graduates' economic outcomes, and by controlling for student traits, strives to measure the value the institutions themselves add.
Opinion
Going Off the Map
A historian's travels can contribute more to her work than archival sources. Scott McLemee reads Dispatches From Dystopia.
Mentoring Scholars, Not Just Filling Sections
If visiting assistant professorships get a bad rap, one college says it does them better.