By Carl Straumsheim. Is a career as an assistant liaison to athletic maintenance to the task force on employee partnerships in your future? Or how about as an associate provost for the deputy provost for facilities climate for the subcommittee for investor partnerships? It pays well -- $393,369 a year. Read more...
Contours of a New Discipline
By Carl Straumsheim. Conference at Georgetown U discusses how to train future ed-tech leaders and whether creating a new discipline is the answer. Read more...
Leave It in the Bag
By Carl Straumsheim. Study by faculty members at West Point finds students perform better academically when laptops and tablets are banned from the classroom. Read more...
Yes, Blame Mom and Dad
By Jake New. Author of a new book on how family matters for college women's success argues that four-year public institutions are increasingly dependent on active -- and wealthy -- parents, and that can harm students with less-involved parents. Read more...
Due Process and Sex Assaults
By Jake New. Law professors issue joint letter saying Education Department guidance to colleges goes too far and poses risks to the rights of accused and of institutions. Read more...
Taking Sexual Assault to Twitter
By Jake New. Frustrated with how colleges have handled their claims of sexual abuse, more students are turning to social media to publicize their cases. Read more...
Paying to Work
By Ellen Wexler. New twist in the debate over unpaid internships is whether colleges should charge tuition for them. Read more...
When Service Learning Doesn't Really Serve
By Ellen Wexler. Too often, service learning prioritizes students over the people with whom they work, Randy Stoecker argues in a new book. Read more...
Need Rural Doctors? Import a Medical School
By Ellen Wexler. Over the next nine years, the country will be short as many as 95,000 doctors. To attract them to underserved areas, medical schools are forming regional partnerships. Read more...
Discounting Hits New Highs
By Rick Seltzer. Tuition discount rates keep climbing to previously unseen levels at private colleges and universities, leaving institutions caught between the need to enroll highly price-conscious students and the squeeze discounting places on the amount of money they end up netting. Read more...