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Academic Minute: Borrowing and the British Invasion
In today’s Academic Minute, Skidmore College's Gordon Thompson examines the cultural and technological borrowing that made the music of the...
Ad Campaign in Favor of Tougher Oversight of For-Profits
Many in nonprofit higher education have looked on with envy or frustration as advocates for for-profit higher education have made...
Report: SUNY Chancellor to Propose Performance-Based Funding
The chancellor of the State University of New York will propose in a speech today making campuses in the massive...
Draft of Texas Budget Would Slash Spending for Colleges and Students
A legislative panel in Texas released a first pass at a state budget for the next two years Tuesday night...
The Growth of For-Profits
New Carnegie classifications reflect shifts in several sectors, including growing numbers of pre-professional programs and of community colleges with some four-year degrees.
'Academically Adrift'
If the purpose of a college education is for students to learn, academe is failing, according to Academically Adrift: Limited...