By Elizabeth Redden. Facing enrollment declines and deficits, the SIT Graduate Institute makes big changes. But unlike other institutions in similar straits, it has a global network of scholars and campus sites at its disposal. More...
Softening Claims of the Marshmallow Test
By Greg Toppo. New findings on "marshmallow test" suggest that adults should consider deeper interventions than simply training kids to resist temptation. More...
Roth's Complex Relationship to Academe
By Greg Toppo. Several of novelist Philip Roth's books called out academics as misguided, hyper-political or overtly ambitious. But professors say he was happy to be taught at colleges. More...
By One Measure, 'Nontraditional' Presidents Less Rare
By Greg Toppo. New findings tweak "traditional" label for presidents, asking whether U.S. public colleges and universities these days are being led by more nonacademics than we think. More...
Mostly Positive Effects of a 'Last-Dollar' Scholarship
By Paul Fain. New research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia analyzes the impact of a scholarship offered by Rutgers University-Camden. The Bridging the Gap scholarship is a "last-dollar" financial aid program that grants mostly lower-income first-year undergraduate students from New Jersey a full or partial tuition discount after all need-based federal, state and institutional grants are applied. More...
Compilation on Grading Frustrations and Ideas
By Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Ed is pleased to release today our latest print-on-demand compilation, "Grading: Frustrations and Ideas." You may download a copy free, here. More...
Teaching Eval Shake-Up
By Colleen Flaherty. Most institutions say they value teaching. But how they assess it tells a different story. University of Southern California has stopped using student evaluations of teaching in promotion decisions in favor of peer-review model. Oregon seeks to end quantitative evaluations of teaching for holistic model. More...
Creating a Culture of Cronyism
A lucrative form of patronage appears to be emerging at Michigan State in the wake of the Nassar scandal, write James Finkelstein and Judith Wilde. More...
Theory in Revolt Now Thunders
Around the turn of the millennium, Jean Baudrillard speculated that the destiny of the 20th century would be for it to be repeated endlessly. All the problems, ideas, movements, problems, conflicts, illusions, breakthroughs, retreats and disasters would eventually return -- and would keep returning: recycled, re-enacted, spliced together in grotesque yet no less repetitive ways. More...
Posterity Applies a Disinfectant
Scott McLemee on a surprising aspect of Amy Werbel's Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock. More...