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27 mars 2016

The Economy of Cheating

HomeBy Carol Poster. Colleges and universities may try to address academic cheating as a moral or pedagogical problem, but it's really about something entirely different, argues Carol Poster. Read more...

27 mars 2016

Donald Trump and the Value of College

HomeBy Ryan Craig. The candidate's support comes disproportionately from those without bachelor's degrees -- but that may say more about the failure than the success of our higher education system, writes Ryan Craig. Read more...

27 mars 2016

Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t

HomeBy Cathy Trower and Peter Eckel. In the two short months since the New Year, headlines about college and university boards and governance have abounded. While the headlines paint one picture, those of us who try and keep a thoughtful eye on governance also read the comments sections of the stories reported here and elsewhere. Read more...

27 mars 2016

The Academy in Peril?

HomeBy William Bradley. If politicians are allowed to dictate who works in our colleges and universities, and thus whose voices get heard when we discuss the world and its inhabitants, we can't expect the results to be positive, argues William Bradley. Read more...

27 mars 2016

Accounting for Scholarship

HomeBy Scott McLemee. A recent report on the cost of publishing monographs should be of some interest to many people who buy, read and/or write scholarly books, says Scott McLemee. Read more...

27 mars 2016

A Clarion Call

HomeBy Donna Y. Ford. Academe should support minority journals and the scholarship of faculty of color, argues Donna Y. Ford. Read more...

27 mars 2016

Let's Focus More on the First Year

HomeBy Roger Martin. Students enter college hoping it will be a major step up from what they were doing before, writes Roger Martin, but they are often disappointed. Read more...

27 mars 2016

In Tenn., Politics or Good Policy?

HomeBy Doug Lederman. New piece of governor's ambitious higher ed agenda would break up statewide governing board to focus on two-year colleges and give six universities more independence. Critics predict backsliding on the state's goals and skewed institutional priorities. Read more...

27 mars 2016

'Confidence Rating' for On-Time Graduation

HomeBy Carl Straumsheim. Academic advisers at the University of California at San Diego will this fall be able to tell on a scale from zero to 10 if the student sitting in front of them is on track to graduate within four years. Read more...

27 mars 2016

Fired, Then Rehired

HomeBy Michael Stratford. After pledging to stop using five debt collectors last year over allegations they misled borrowers, U.S. Education Department gives two of them new business. Read more...

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