Lawmakers who think higher education is broken -- and that “innovation” and more assessment can fix it -- would learn a lot from seeing the learning process up close and personal, Bernard Fryshman writes. More...
If the administration’s expanded apprenticeship program is to succeed, it must ensure a baseline of quality and rigor, alignment with industry standards, and equity in access and participation, writes Cassius O. Johnson. More...
Scott McLemee continues to survey some of the upcoming publishing season’s offerings.
My last dispatch, some weeks back, was a survey of various interesting books forthcoming from university presses (mostly) in the fall and winter months -- sorting them into topical or thematic clusters, with enough connective tissue to make it more than a list. More...
Cathy Sandeen looks back at her past predictions and claims about massive open online courses to see how they’ve held up. More...
The White House’s proposed budget cuts to language and exchange programs will make America less able to communicate with and understand our allies and potential adversaries abroad, arguesKarl Eikenberry. More...
As right-wing groups scale up their attacks on higher education, colleges and universities need to take bold steps to support scholars who are being targeted, argue Jessie Daniels and Arlene Stein. More...
They can have unintended consequences, writes Donal O’Shea. And the trick is to find those that actually improve student learning. More...
Digital literacy is for professors, too, argues Shontavia Johnson.
Inappropriate social media posts from current and soon-to-be college students have made news headlines lately. More...
Scott McLemee interviews Ceri Dingle, the director of an ambitious documentary on the West Indian political theorist and scholar C. L. R. James about how Dingle, 200 volunteers and others brought such a daunting project to fruition. More...
In the end, argues Christopher Leise, the questions should not have turned to “Who is right here?” but rather, “Who is white here?” More...
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