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Shaking Up the Community College Concept
CUNY's plans to create a new two-year institution, with a core curriculum and requiring full-time enrollment, represents a dramatic shift in the model -- attracting much enthusiasm and a few raised eyebrows.
Square Peg, Round Hole?
Some in Connecticut question wisdom of the governor's plan to merge the state's technical high school and community college systems.
Backtracking Brandeis President: 'I Screwed Up'
President Obama has given college presidents a management strategy for controversy: admit it when you screw up. Jehuda Reinharz, president...
'Sexual Depravity,' Student Fees and the Student Press
The column, “Sexual Depravity,” was, by most people’s standards, pretty offensive (and if you think it might offend you, you...
Downturn in Federal Research Spending
New U.S. data show agencies' spending on R&D declined in 2008 and that funds for basic studies have fallen by average of nearly 2 percent a year since 2004.
Opinion
The Assessment Impasse
To bury the debates about whether to measure student learning, higher education -- and the new education secretary -- should do the hard work of figuring out the higher skills that students should have, writes Merilee Griffin.
Saving a Christian College
Weeks after abandoning traditional academic program to focus on adults, Crichton becomes latest small nonprofit institution to shift to for-profit model.