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Accreditors Are Sleeping on the Job
The accrediting agencies’ collective failure to hold low-performing colleges accountable against objective standards harms students and taxpayers, Jay Urwitz writes.
Howard Receives $90 Million Military Research Contract
Howard University received a $90 million, five-year contract from the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Air Force to establish...
Bethune-Cookman Students Protest Campus Conditions
Hundreds of students at Bethune-Cookman University gathered on campus Monday afternoon to protest what they said were unlivable conditions in...
The Ethics of Brain-Computer Interfacing: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute: Nancy Jecker, professor in the department of bioethics and humanities at the University of Washington...
Columbia, Mount Sinai, Penn and Stanford Medical Schools Drop ‘U.S. News’
The universities followed Harvard in criticizing the way the magazine ranks medical colleges.
Opinion
Friend or Foe?
To determine what materials to allow students to bring to exams, Nancy S. Schorschinsky conducted her own experiments and discovered some insightful results.
College Physical Education Requirements Continue to Decline
About 32 percent of U.S. colleges and universities require students to take some sort of physical education course to graduate—down...
What Makes a Student Withdraw?
A new study from Penn State sheds light on what compels a college student receiving mental health care to stop out. How can counselors use this information to promote student success?