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Surviving the First Year

As she gets ready to start as an assistant professor, Shari Dinkins shares the advice she's received and the lessons she learned.

Score One for the Secretary

Her campaign to measure student learning was ill-conceived, but Spellings deserves credit for changing the conversation about higher education, Bernard Fryshman writes.

Time to Step Back

Higher education accreditation is badly flawed. But expanding the federal role, as Margaret Spellings proposes, is the wrong way to fix it, Jane S. Shaw writes.

Assessment From the Ground Up

The controversy over the push for standardized tests obscures the success and potential of faculty-driven systems to measure student learning, writes Donna Engelmann.

A Better Way on Transfer of Credit

Recent federal proposals assume the source of accreditation shouldn't influence colleges' decisions on accepting students' academic credit. Constantine Curris argues otherwise.

The Overworked College Administrator

Professors complain about growing workloads and often blame campus managers. But we’re drowning, too, writes Barbara Mainwaring.

4 Months of Holidays? Not Quite!

Céleste Brotheridge and Raymond Lee are tired of non-academics who think professors live a life of leisure in the summer.

Open Library

Imagine if world's most complete card catalog were just a mouse-click away. Scott McLemee chats with a young programmer who is making it happen.