Rules on Foreign Campuses in India
Future Job Seekers Will Need Higher Education
What Is College For?
Online Accessibility a Faculty Duty
New Measure of Success
By Scott Jaschik. Two issues on which many higher education experts agree are that completion rates matter and that the federal methodology for measuring graduation rates is seriously flawed. To date, however, no alternative system for measuring graduation rates has gained widespread currency in discussing the performance of colleges. Today six higher education associations (representing two-year and four-year institutions, public and private) are endorsing a new system called the Student Achievement Measure, with the hope of changing the debate about measuring college completion. Read more...
'Amplifying' Education's Value
Skipping Campus
An Interest Rate Compromise?
No Kids Allowed
By Allie Grasgreen. A Florida State College at Jacksonville sophomore who was turned away from an exam because she took her baby along may have recourse against the institution, after the U.S. Education Department warned colleges this week that they have legal responsibilities to support pregnant and parenting students. Read more...