Northwestern University School of Professional Studies (SPS), a national leader in continuing and professional education, today announced a partnership with student success coaching pioneer InsideTrack to launch a new career coaching program tailored to the needs of working adult students in their undergraduate and graduate degree programs. More...

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) come in all sizes and shapes, and a very special one is the Social MOOC. In this blog we will have a look at some issues to consider while moderating MOOCs based on social learning. More...

In the middle of a talk on immigration policy, UC Berkeley lecturer Pablo Gonzalez suddenly gets personal. Standing at the front of a windowless classroom on this prestigious public university campus, he recounts how his mother and other women in his West Berkeley neighborhood each year would mark the anniversary of their arrival to the United States. More...

The Higher Education Act (HEA) originally became a law in 1965; it was seen as a way to give all Americans greater access to higher education. Currently, about 75 percent of all federal student loans come from HEA programs, according to the Edu Alliance Journal. More...

Interns hoping to get a full day’s pay might find it tougher to do so under revised federal guidelines that help determine whether an internship should be paid. More...