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New Battleground for Publishers
With demand for online assessment and e-tutoring tools growing, good textbooks alone are no longer enough to win over professors.
'Harnessing America's Wasted Talent'
Peter P. Smith's career in and out of higher education has not followed the straight and narrow. Amid forays into...
'The Intimate University'
Even as Asian-American enrollments grow at leading American universities, relatively little in-depth work has been done that focuses on growing...
Imperfect Accountability
Voluntary systems crafted by colleges to respond to public demand for data fall well short of their stated goals, two advocacy groups argue.
Extra Nudge into the Sunset
Tough budget times have colleges offering early retirement incentives to free up funds, and others report difficulties maintaining current retirement contribution levels.
Highlighting E-Readers
Colleges release analyses of major experiments with Kindles -- and find students use less paper with the devices, but want better note-taking ability.
'The Challenge of Bologna'
The "Bologna Process," under which European nations have agreed on common higher education standards -- with the goal of making...