Filter & Sort
Could Enrollment Fears Be Used for Good?
Maybe now is the time to reform admissions for the better, writes Nicholas Soodik.
Ethical College Admissions: Harvard's Shift on the SAT
Jim Jump considers the implications of the university's decision to stop requiring the essay portion of the test.
Social Media, Privacy and Technological Change
Scott McLemee reviews new and forthcoming titles from university presses that take up these interconnected subjects.
Planned Obsolescence
Most colleges and universities rarely kill academic programs for underperforming. They (and their students) would be better off if they regularly culled programs that aren’t giving graduates the skills they need, Ryan Craig writes.
Fake News Forever!
When historians seek to understand historical matters, asks Gerald R. Beasley, where will they turn for information about the deleted accounts of fake news that may have influenced those events?
Machine Learning, Big Data and the Future of Higher Ed
These new technologies have much to offer colleges and their students, but if we are not careful how we incorporate them, the risks may outweigh the gains, Vincent Del Casino Jr. writes.
Does Online Reinforce the Color Line?
Online education is an engine of racial inequality, argue Christopher Newfield and Cameron Sublett, and no good higher ed policy can be created ignoring that fact.
Forging New Territory Online
Eloy Ortiz Oakley says California’s online community college will be a better public alternative to for-profit colleges for the “stranded workers” traditional college systems struggle to serve.