01 mai 2017

Diminishing Returns for Tuition Discounting

HomeBy Rick Seltzer. Net tuition revenue per full-time equivalent student decreased after unrestricted tuition discount rates hit 28.7 percent. More...

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Not in My Classroom

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty.One of the major arguments against campus carry laws like the one imposed on Texas public universities last year is that having guns in the classroom chills academic freedom. More...

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Moonlighting While Accreditation Fell Through

HomeBy Ashley A. Smith. Community college faces students upset that they can't be licensed after a professor -- fired this week -- reportedly didn't have time to deal with accreditor, despite having time to teach online at two for-profit institutions. More...

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Someone Else's Words

HomeBy Carl Straumsheim. The thesaurus has long been a go-to tool for students looking to doll up their writing or even hide plagiarism. A recent study found that free online tools are helping students do so with entire paragraphs, and that the tools can fool plagiarism-detection software. More...

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Coulter Changes Course

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. The controversial conservative author has decided not to speak at Berkeley, saying it would not be safe. More...

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Q: Who Shouldn't Dress Up as Black Gang Members?

HomeBy Scott Jaschik. A: White religion professors, as Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary has learned. More...

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Fashion Fail

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. “Dress codes and good style aren’t mutually exclusive,” according to an online Gap ad that was panned by academics on social media this week. More...

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Steady Hand in an Unpredictable Time

HomeBy Andrew Kreighbaum. Recent personnel choices at the Department of Education have received scrutiny for connections to private industry and personal ideologies at odds with the mission of their office. More...

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Why Germany Educates International Students for Free

HomeBy David Matthews for Times Higher Education. University leaders see benefits to policy in a country with aging population, but some states have been trying to move away from the approach. More...

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Years of Work, Tabled

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Duke University was trying to do something different with a proposed new undergraduate curriculum, emphasizing less what students should study than how. More...

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