By Paul Fain. Presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley this week unveiled his debt-free college plan, triggering a debate across the ideological divide with Jeb Bush. Read more...
1 août 2015
1 août 2015
Beyond the Transcript
By Paul Fain. Most people in higher education agree that the old-school college transcript fails to adequately capture what students learn and do during their time in college. Read more...
1 août 2015
Many Paths to Diversity
By Scott Jaschik. The U.S. Supreme Court this fall will hear arguments about whether colleges have the constitutional right in certain circumstances to consider race and ethnicity in admissions decisions. Read more...
1 août 2015
Mentoring as Tenure Criterion
By Scott Jaschik. Purdue University, like most colleges and universities, evaluates faculty members up for tenure on their accomplishments in research, teaching and service. And as is the case at most research universities, research has tended to be prominent. Read more...
1 août 2015
Race in a Ph.D. Program
By Scott Jaschik. An essay -- "Why I No Longer Eat Watermelon, or How a Racist Email Caused Me to Leave Graduate School" -- starts by describing that incident, from 2011. The piece is spreading rapidly among graduate students, especially those who are not white, and many are saying that it provides an important perspective on their isolation and the kinds of experiences that encourage so many to leave graduate school. Read more...
1 août 2015
Rule on Financial Products Draws Criticism, Praise
By Doug Lederman. Virtually every college, company, advocacy group and other party that commented on proposed new federal rules on campus financial products by last week's deadline asserted that it had students' best interests at heart. Read more...
1 août 2015
Mergers on the Rise?
By Kellie Woodhouse. The same day Sweet Briar College announced its controversial and since-abandoned plan to close, two private New York colleges made public an entirely different plan: a merger. Read more...
1 août 2015
New Push for Trustee Training
By Kellie Woodhouse. Trustees have a tremendous amount of responsibility. They’re in charge of setting the agenda of an institution, approving tuition charges and green-lighting multimillion-dollar construction projects. Read more...
1 août 2015
A 'Loan Lottery'
By Jacqueline Thomsen. A New Jersey state representative proposed legislation Monday morning that would establish a lottery, but only for those with college debt. The winner wouldn’t receive the funds directly; they would go directly to the institution where the money is owed. Read more...
1 août 2015
Making Title IX Work
By Jake New. Speaking at the annual meeting of the International Association of College Law Enforcement Administrators here on Wednesday, Riseling offered a number of suggestions to not only help campus police better meet the requirements of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Clery Act, but to use those requirements to help inform their own investigations. Read more...
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