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Completion and the Value of College
The college completion agenda reaches an inflection point as the Obama administration ends and the nation increasingly focuses on jobs and college value. Experts assess shifts in the completion push and what comes next.
Opinion
It Probably Won’t Save Your Life
Although colleges and universities have spent tens of millions of dollars on complex emergency communications systems to try to make campuses safer, the technology has serious limitations, warns Bill Mahon.
College Sports’ Slow Pace of Change
For nearly three decades, the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics has argued for reforming college sports. What impact has the panel had?
The Case Against Oversimplified Accountability
Focus on any single labor market metric to judge colleges’ outcomes will create flawed policy, but a mix of such measures can help evaluate institutions’ performance, scholarly study finds.
Student Fatally Stabs Professor
Bosco Tjan, a noted psychology researcher, was killed in the building where he worked.
In the Line of Fire
After killing of Wayne State officer and attack at Ohio State, campus police reflect on dangers of the job.
Opinion
In Search of a College MVP
What is higher education’s version of the minimum viable product -- the smallest, simplest unit that meets the public’s needs? Developing it will be a key goal for college leaders over the next decade, Ryan Craig argues.
Opinion
Transforming the Value Proposition
For quite a long while, American higher education has been adrift in a devolving eddy of self-pity while remaining largely silent on the great social issues of our times, argues Patricia McGuire.