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Awarding Degrees Without Permission
How can a public university open a campus in another state and issue diplomas without the permission of its own board or accreditor?
Open Textbook Meets Community Colleges
Rice University's open educational resources Web site publishes a popular 2-year college text for anyone to read, reuse or remix -- free.
A Bookended Approach to Attracting Chinese Students
1+2+1 dual degrees, in which students start and finish at a Chinese university with two years at an American college in between, are becoming more popular.
Credit Crunch or Echo Chamber?
With few signs so far that students are unable to get loans for college, campus officials are made increasingly jittery by news articles that quote jittery campus officials.
Matching Borrower With Lender, Social-Network Style
A new crop of online student lending services is approaching its first full semester in business. Will the "people to people" model catch on as a new source of alternative loans?
Presidential 'Pabulum' and a Professor's Punishment
The e-mail messages wouldn't have won Donald Steiner any dinner invitations to the president's home. In one e-mail to a...
For Adjuncts, Progress and Complexities
As activists gather from across North America, they point to breakthrough contracts -- but face tensions over unions' role and how to best make their case.