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News
The Cost That Holds Back Ed-Tech Innovation
Giving instructors adequate time and support for course redesign isn’t how most universities seem to spend their money. -
News
How Open E-Credentials Will Transform Higher Education
Colleges ignoring electronic credentialing now are like bookstores ignoring Amazon in 1997. You know what happened next. -
News
‘We Teach Peace in the Stuttering Light’
After the shootings, Lucinda Roy, an English professor, felt she had failed. “We have this idea of the ideal teacher, that if you only try heard enough, you will be able to reach every student.” -
News
The Arc of Her Survival
A decade ago, Kristina Anderson was shot while in her French class at Virginia Tech. Now she’s reshaping, again and again, the meaning of that terrible day. -
The Review
Why Universities and Foundations Should Get Together Sooner
If the partners joined forces at much earlier stages in the research process, they could identify emerging problems that are of significance to both. -
News
How to Make Time for Research and Writing
Twelve scholars share their tips for getting it done. -
The Review
Fixing Student Debt: A Common-Sense Approach
Steps like annual letters to students estimating the size and length of their payments could curb imprudent borrowing commitments. -
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News
How One Professor Avoided Summer Slump
To make the best use of her break, an assistant professor at the U. of Oregon broke it into three chunks. -
News
Big Data for Student Success Still Limited to Early Adopters
With a few exceptions, high-tech efforts to track students with learning analytics are still just getting off the ground. -
News
Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (4/14/2017)
Juilliard School’s campus in Tianjin, China, named its first president, and a veteran leader of journalism schools in the United States was appointed founding dean of the journalism school at O.P. Jindal Global University, in India. -
News
Big Data Alone Won’t Help Students
The information that comes out of big-data systems must be usable, useful, and actionable by educators who know how to make sense of it. -
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Opinion
Big Hopes, Scant Evidence
Acquiring an expensive tool does not guarantee demonstrable and sustainable improvement. -
News
Growing Pains Begin to Emerge in Open-Textbook Movement
Freely licensed textbooks mean big savings for students, but the extra work of assembling the course materials makes some faculty members wonder what’s in it for them. -
News
Where Every Student Is a Potential Data Point
At Western Governors University, an online-only institution that enrolls 80,000, the possibilities for institutional researchers are just about endless. -
News
Keeping Up With the Growing Threat to Data Security
College networks are under constant attack by hackers whose tools are increasingly sophisticated. -
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News
Recent Private Gifts to Higher Education (April 2017)
The top four gifts over a recent time period were all for medical research. -
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News
‘Everyone’s Recovery Is Different’
Jerzy Nowak, whose wife, Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, was killed at Virginia Tech in 2007, recalls the day that changed his life, and how he and their daughter continued. -
News
Universities Take Steps to Improve Working Conditions for Adjuncts
Pennsylvania State University’s Faculty Senate has recommended changes that would turn jobs off the tenure track into a viable career path. The move is more comprehensive than most such efforts, but it has plenty of forbears. -
Athletics
Among Haves and Have-Nots in Athletics, One Common Fear: Academic Misconduct
Both big and small programs put a priority on trust in their athletic tutors. “We’ll tell them right off the bat, We almost don’t care what you know,” one tutor coordinator says. “The question is: Can you be trusted?” -
News
Koch Money Brings Distress Over a University’s Well-Being Institute
Wake Forest University is using a gift from the Charles Koch Foundation to establish an institute focused on the study of “human flourishing.” The result has been a bitter debate over its gift policies and perceived threats to academic freedom. -
Research
As Marches Approach, Science Advocates Warn Universities to Prepare for Backlash
Scientists and social scientists feel compelled to play a more public role in defending the value of their work. But that comes with risks — and institutions and disciplinary groups need to do more to prepare, say some leaders in the field. -
Faculty
Wayne State’s Move to Strip 5 Professors of Tenure Sparks Unease About a Broader Threat
The Michigan university is seeking to deal with medical-school professors who its president says are abusing the system. Other faculty members are wary. -
Academic Science
Trump Proposal to Cut Indirect Research Payments Would Hit State Universities Hardest
The reimbursements reflect the legitimate expenses of academic science, and would still need to be covered, experts say. -
News
Why Is a Suspect in the Vanderbilt Rape Case Talking to Athletes About Sexual Assault?
Brandon E. Banks was scheduled to speak to athletes at Louisiana State University, until concerned students and faculty members got wind of the talk. -
Publishing
Duquesne U. Rejects Last-Ditch Proposals to Save Its Press
The publications of the 90-year-old press, which got an annual subsidy of $200,000, include a highly regarded journal of Milton studies. -
Faculty
Why Hundreds of Christian Faculty Members Have Signed a ‘Statement of Confession’
Lisa DeBoer, a professor at Westmont College, explains the significance of a statement whose signatories promise to recognize “vulnerable populations among us” and “ways we benefit from and participate in structural injustices.” -
First Person
The Art of ‘No’
Don’t allow yourself to be treated as a checked box on someone else’s to-do list.