By Scott Jaschik. To many students, parents, taxpayers and politicians, a key way to measure colleges' success is their graduation rates. A new book, The College Completion Glass -- Half-Full or Half-Empty? (Rowman and Littlefield), challenges much of the way college completion is talked about. More...
By Scott Jaschik. A new book about higher education spares no players in academe today. The book criticizes administrators as wasteful, professors as more concerned about their own disciplines than student needs and students for cheating. More...
By Scott Jaschik. The Scripps National Spelling Bee was until last year a contest that could only be entered by winning regional contests. But as The Wall Street Journal reported, the contest is now pay-to-play. More...
By Scott Jaschik. University inquiry sees no signs employees broke laws, but finds donations close in time to admissions decisions on donors' children. Plus, more parents plead guilty and a son arrested for attacking father. More...
By Scott Jaschik. New analysis raises questions about fairness. But is issue rich students getting accommodations they don't deserve or low-income students whose needs are not being met. More...
By Scott Jaschik. If you live in a certain kind of suburb, you know some of the ways that students and parents boast about getting into the "right" colleges. The casual references to planning for Cambridge or New Haven. More...
By Scott Jaschik. At Inside Higher Ed conference, college leaders will have chance to meet with junior high students to talk about the importance of higher education. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Students and others at the University of Oxford have been demanding that the university revoke an honorary degree awarded in 1993 to the sultan of Brunei. On Friday, the university announced that in response to a letter from the university seeking to clarify his views, the sultan returned the degree. More...
By Scott Jaschik. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced Friday that it plans to shut down its residential M.B.A. programs -- full-time and part-time -- to focus on its online M.B.A., which it calls the iMBA. More...
By Scott Jaschik. The University of Oxford, in Britain, has announced a series of new efforts to increase the number of disadvantaged students it admits. One program will provide extra academic support -- prior to enrollment -- to those who are from disadvantaged backgrounds and "may have narrowly missed out on a place in previous years". More...
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