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Keeping Up With Competency

With 600 institutions at least in the design phase for a competency-based credential, college officials will meet this month to talk about how to build a program -- and how to ensure its academic quality.

Republican Roundup

Jeb Bush and other candidates for the Republican presidential nomination begin to follow Senator Marco Rubio down the wonkier corridors of higher education policy.

Faculty Posts for Nonacademic Presidents

New U of Iowa leader was offered the prospect of a tenured position, but he passed. When presidents never earned tenure, does a faculty job belong in the contract?

Unpopular Pick

Iowa Board of Regents on Thursday unanimously votes to appoint former IBM senior vice president Bruce Harreld as Iowa’s next president -- despite outspoken criticism by professors.

New Presidents or Provosts: Bastyr U, Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Colorado School of Mines, Motlow State CC, Nicholls State U, North Hennepin CC, Rutgers U-Camden, Shaw U, U of Oxford

Tashni Dubroy, special assistant to the president for process optimization and chair of the department of natural sciences and mathematics...

A Path Back to Free for Cooper Union?

Deal between New York attorney general, the university and its critics will change governance and could lead in a few years to the end of tuition.

A Controversial Search

A changing presidential search process and a nontraditional finalist are causing widespread faculty concern at U of Iowa.