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Pearson, Once a Market Leader, Leaves Online Services Business
The educational services giant, which has been supplanted in the space by 2U, Coursera and others, sells its online services unit to a private equity firm in an unsettled landscape.
Academic Success Tip: Create Communities for Real-Time Learning Help
Digital support communities allow Western Governors University students to connect with peers and faculty to ask questions, find solutions and solve problems while working at their own pace.
Cal State Long Beach Students Protest Graduation Plans
Students at California State University, Long Beach, are protesting the lack of a graduation ceremony in which they will walk...
Sore Losers in Presidential History
Being a sore loser in a presidential race has historical precedent. In today’s Academic Minute, Lawrence University’s Jerald Podair explains...
New Initiative Seeks to Provide Clearer Data on MSIs
Scholars launched a new database focused on minority-serving institutions to create more clarity among researchers, policy makers and others about how to classify and study them.
Is For-Profit Higher Education on Its Last Legs?
Possible sale of the University of Phoenix to a public university raises existential questions about the for-profit sector and federal regulation of higher education. A panel of experts weighs them.
Board Fines President $5,000 for Rules Violations
The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities board has ordered Marsha Danielson, the president of Minnesota State College Southeast, to pay...