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Executive Power and the Electoral College
How did the Electoral College come to be? In today's Academic Minute, Stanford University's Jack Rakove explores the origin of...
Can Your Productivity Be Measured?
Book offers critique of uses of big data to measure the output of professors and institutions, arguing that technique is equivalent to “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”
Impact and Nonimpact of Online Competition
Paper finds growth of fully online degree programs led to increased spending and falling enrollments at some place-based colleges, but had little impact on tuition rates.
Morehouse Criticized for Housing Requirement
Morehouse College is facing criticism over its recent decision to require students to live on campus for at least three...
Bizarre Flash Mob Attack on Temple U Students
Many Temple University students were unnerved and some were attacked Friday when a flash mob-style group of youths gathered near...
Opinion
A Mighty Time for Community Colleges
For all President Obama, Jill Biden and Martha Kanter have done for the institutions, Wick Sloane offers his thanks. Now it's up to the colleges themselves, he writes.
Academic Minute: Executive Power and the Electoral College
Today on the Academic Minute, Jack Rakove, professor of history and political science at Stanford University, explores the origin of...
'The Have and Have-Not Gap'
At meeting of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, sports leaders express concern about "out of control" spending among top conferences. So far, colleges don't appear to be trying to reverse course.