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The Limitations of Portfolios
Electronic collections help show the range of students' work, but are not standardized or scalable enough to be used for broad assessment purposes, write Richard Shavelson, Stephen Klein and Roger Benjamin.
State Universities' Tradition of Attrition
Among all the issues in higher education today, retention once again captures our attention. Most influential is the publication of...
New Civil Rights Movement
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated at the US Capitol on Sunday to demand LGBT equality. Scott McLemee thinks while marching...
How Community Colleges Can Reach Obama's Goals
Americans have long prided ourselves on our higher education system, but lately a much more negative image has emerged. The...
Picking Up Crumbs
Cuts in the cookie budget of the nation's wealthiest university don't illustrate hardship so much as show how lopsided support for higher education is, writes Drew A. Bennett.
Time Off for Good Behavior
David Galef shares a memo distributed by the henchman (er, administrator) hired to enforce the furloughs at U of All People.
Behavior Management and a University System
A strategy focused on coordination, goals, data and results (and a willingness to make adjustments) can change higher education, writes Alexandra W. Logue.
The Filth and the Fury
Need a guide to vocabulary in the focative case? Scott McLemee looks at the definitive study of "the F word."