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By Jeff Rice. A colleague from another department passed me on campus the other day, a week before the end of classes. “Hi,” I said as we approached one another. Read more...

By Robert Matz. On William Shakespeare’s birthday this year, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) issued a report, “The Unkindest Cut: Shakespeare in Exile in 2015,” which warned that “less than 8 percent of the nation’s top universities require English majors to take even a single course that focuses on Shakespeare.” Warnings about the decline of a traditional literary canon are familiar from conservative academic organizations such as ACTA and the National Association of Scholars. What increasingly strikes me, however, is how frozen in amber these warning are. Read more...

By John Morgan for Times Higher Education. The world’s richest nations are due to decide this month whether to press ahead with a major international project to measure university teaching quality that could offer a “fantastic opportunity” for East Asian universities to improve their standing, possibly at the expense of the Western elite. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. Low success rates and high costs are driving more states and institutions to seek new ways to offer developmental or remedial college courses. Read more...

By Jake New. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has chosen an unusual partner for its online M.B.A. program: massive open online course provider Coursera.
The program, known as iMBA, will deliver most of its course content through Specializations, Coursera’s term for course sequences. Read more...

By Jake New. What started as a small demonstration denouncing the mistreatment of black Americans snowballed into a national news story last month, prompting hundreds of protestors to descend on Valdosta State University for a rally that shut down the campus. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. Public universities have traditionally had two tiers of pricing for undergraduates: rates for state residents and for nonresidents, respectively. At most public universities, international students pay out-of-state tuition rates. But some public institutions have introduced a third, higher tier specifically for students coming from abroad. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. A recent investigative news program combined with a report from a governmental anticorruption commission have stirred up a debate in Australia about the prevalence of fraud in international student recruitment and the alleged slippage of academic standards as the country’s universities have grown increasingly dependent on the tuition these students bring. The debate in Australia -- where international students account for more than a fifth of university enrollments, compared to just about 4 percent in the U.S. -- arguably has implications for American universities as they seek to grow international student enrollments and increasingly embrace the use of commissioned agents in recruiting, a practice widely accepted in Australia. Read more...

By Paul Fain. The dramatic collapse of Corinthian Colleges isn't the only shake-up happening in for-profit higher education, as a broad swath of the sector is shutting down or selling off campuses after years of declining revenue and enrollment. Read more...

By Paul Fain. Kaplan University will now offer personalized “competency reports” to its 45,000 students. The announcement is the for-profit institution’s biggest move into competency-based education so far, adding momentum and, perhaps, risks for the emerging form of higher education. Read more...