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Gates Foundation to Spend Big on Community Colleges

A new plan -- involving hundreds of millions of dollars -- will focus on completion rates and performance-based incentives.

Fleshing Out Student Aid Simplification (Update)

Education Department to present plan that would simplify aid form, shrink number of aid programs, and base award size on family income and average price of 2-year college.

Sustainable Curriculums

Faculty members describe different approaches to incorporating sustainability into their classes, in some very different disciplines.

50-Yard-Line Seats and Faculty Oversight

U. Michigan professors express concern about practice of giving athletics advisory board members tickets and travel to football bowl games.

How to Shop for Carbon Offsets

Presidents Climate Commitment releases protocol on offsets at conference on sustainability in higher ed, where assessment and measurement are, not surprisingly, big buzzwords.
Opinion

Stuck on Student Learning

As Measuring Up 2008 prepares to grade higher education progress on a variety of fronts, most states' efforts to gauge academic outcomes have stalled, writes Peter Ewell.

'Free Market' for Higher Ed

Larry Johnson is a self-described “entrepreneur from hell,” so it’s of little surprise that the University of Cincinnati dean likes...