The area between the trenches isn’t no-man’s land, argues Zachary Nowak. We can learn to meet in the middle. More...
Making Space Under the Weight of Growing Expectations
Tamara Yakaboski describes ways you can set boundaries that support your personal life and professional needs. More...
Reclaiming the Nudge
The small interventions designed to influence student choices are neither panacea nor failure -- but tools worthy of continuing experimentation, writes Kim Manturuk. More...
Unreasonable Rules
Families didn't benefits from the restrictions NACAC placed on colleges, writes Mark Salisbury. More...
At Last, at Last, a Shining Exception
Syracuse University has purposefully increased its student veteran population -- a core element of its strategic plan. More...
Higher Education Needs More Affirmative Action, Not Less
The lesson of the recent case at Harvard University is that colleges and universities must do more to fully recognize their students as whole people, writes Margaret M. Chin. More...
The Sketchy Legal Ground for Online Revenue Sharing
The federal guidance that allows colleges to share tuition dollars with contractors that help them recruit students -- as long as they provide other services, too -- conflicts with the law and should be revoked, Robert Shireman argues. More...
A Question of Character
Robert Massa explains a new attempt to define character in the admissions process. More...
Should Computer Science Be Required?
At far too many institutions today, students who are not computer science majors encounter severe enrollment caps and watered-down or limited courses, writes Robert Sedgewick. More...
“Online Learning promotes real inquiry and real interrogation, the enemies of propaganda and fake news.”
Minister for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor says lifelong learning needs to be the “norm so that we are adaptable to new technologies”. She also said it was the government’s ambition to position Ireland as a “global leader in education provision”. More...