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Drinking and Deaning
According to this article, Anthony Campbell, the Dean of Students at Rider College (N.J.), has been indicted on charges of...
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.
Differences in the Two-Year Sector
There's a nifty piece (and discussion) in yesterday's IHE about a new classification system adopted by the Education Department to...
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.
Chop Chop, and It's Off to Lunch We Go
This weekend, TW and I attended a wedding at City Hall in New York, followed the next day by a...
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.
Fun for Kids of All Ages
You should skip my explanations and go straight to enjoying the videos at the end of this post. I say...