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Don’t Romanticize Faculty Governance
We faculty members are capable of both intellectual rigor and self-serving small-mindedness, astounding courage and craven pettiness. We are and are not special, writes Kathryn D. Blanchard.
Academic Minute: Hope and the 2020 Election
Today on the Academic Minute, Sarah Stitzlein, professor of education at the University of Cincinnati, discusses how to put hope...
Groups Align to Advocate for Today's Students
A coalition of groups representing veterans, working adults and historically underrepresented students have teamed up to form a new organization...
New Online Academic Programs
Colleges begin new offerings in cybersecurity, faith and leadership formation, global health, industrial engineering, and mixed methods research.
At Hopkins, 1 Professor Is Fired and Another Resigns
Johns Hopkins University’s Board of Trustees fired Juan Obarrio, associate professor of anthropology, over findings that he violated the institution’s...
Digital Learning in ‘Inside Higher Ed’ This Week
Among the topics: new student social media platform, short-term Pell Grants, Google search, instructors' influence on community college students.
Technology 1, ‘Credential Society’ 0
Randall Collins’s recently reissued 1979 book arguing that education and training are about credentialing rather than skills rings false in the digital age, Ryan Craig argues.
Boston University to Price Online M.B.A. at $24,000
Boston University and edX will launch the MOOC platform's first master's in business administration degree in fall 2020 -- and...