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Faculty Gender Imbalances Yield Biased Student Ratings
Another study adds to the litany of concerns about student evaluations of faculty teaching. It says men and women are both at risk from bias in gender-lopsided departments, but women more so.
YouTube-iversity
Arizona State University will soon offer credit-bearing courses that begin on YouTube. Is the behemoth online video-sharing website the missing ingredient in engaging more learners on the margins?
Opinion
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.
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.
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...
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...