By Doug Lederman. The University of St. Thomas, in Minnesota, will have to find a new sports league to play in within two years, because the other 12 private colleges in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference are tired of losing to it all the time. More...
Moravian College, With ExtensionEngine, to Develop First Fully Online Degree
By Doug Lederman. Moravian College, in Pennsylvania, will create a fully online master's degree program in predictive analytics, with help from ExtensionEngine, the company announced. The program will be Moravian's first fully online program. More...
Tulane to Launch Online Social Work Doctorate With Noodle
By Doug Lederman. Tulane University will work with Noodle Partners to create an online doctoral program in social work, the company announced. More...
Law School Accreditor Raises Bar-Passage Standard
By Doug Lederman. After years of debate and false starts, the American Bar Association's accrediting arm on Friday toughened its requirement on the rate at which a law school's graduates must pass the bar for the school to be accredited. More...
Student Success for Life: How Colleges Prepare Graduates for Careers
By Doug Lederman. "Student Success for Life: How Colleges Prepare Graduates for Careers" is Inside Higher Ed's new print-on-demand compilation of articles.
You may download a copy here, free. More...
Was SAT Biology Subject Test Compromised?
By Scott Jaschik. The National Center for Fair & Open Testing, a group that has long criticized standardized tests and pointed to security problems on them, revealed Thursday that it had received a call with information about questions on the SAT subject test in biology given last weekend. More...
$180M Gates Grant to Emory for Work on Child Health
By Scott Jaschik. Emory University on Thursday announced a $180 million grant -- the university's largest ever -- to support its Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network, which works to prevent child mortality in developing countries. More...
‘The Educated Underclass’
By Scott Jaschik. Author discusses new book in which he questions whether most colleges are living up to their claims about promoting social mobility -- and whether college degrees do enough for low-income students. More...
New Data on Students and Credit Card Debt
By Scott Jaschik. Just under half of college students with credit cards (45 percent) report that they have two or more credit cards and use the multiple cards to juggle debt, according to a new survey by EVERFI. More...
Virginia Tech Will Pay Some New Students to Delay
By Scott Jaschik. Virginia Tech is expecting hundreds of extra freshmen to enroll this fall, so the university is offering many of them money to delay enrollment, The Roanoke Times reported. More...