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Relative Advantages of Associate Degrees and Certificates
Study suggests that low-income students get bigger payoff from practical credentials than some two-year degrees -- and shows value of data produced by state unit record systems.
What Are Freshmen Thinking?
Annual survey of first-year students considers money and politics (among other topics): Students are looking for jobs and leaning left.
Half Empty or Half Full
New report attempts to gather key data on women in higher education -- students, faculty, administrators -- and to analyze key issues. In just about every category, study finds progress and disappointments.
Imagining College Without Grades
Could timing be right for more colleges to replace traditional A-F scale (which many fear has become an A-B scale) with narrative evaluations? Is the report card the enemy of meaningful assessment?
The Foreign (Student) Perspective on America's Historic Day
WASHINGTON -- Charlotte Junius, a German student interning in Washington, saw something she did not quite expect Tuesday during the...
A President Retires, and Plagiarism Probe Ends
University of Texas announces that no purpose would be served by looking into allegations that raised questions about the dissertation of the leader of the Pan American campus.