By Paul Fain. The nation's largest regional accreditor, the Higher Learning Commission, in 2017 created a task force of experts to weigh in on student success and related issues. The group released its first paper last year. This week it published a compendium of three related papers on accrediting practices it said can both assure quality and better serve today's students. More...
By Paul Fain. JP Morgan Chase's investment bank has dropped its long-standing intern recruiting visits to college campuses, Business Insider reported. More...
By Jack Grove for Times Higher Education. Threats by transgender rights activists to disrupt an academic conference on prison reform over the organizer’s allegedly “transphobic” views on how inmates should be segregated have led to its cancellation. More...
By Paul Fain. Arizona State University is creating a for-profit spin-off that will seek to attract large employer partners for its online education programs, according to a report in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The new venture is aimed at corporations that will subsidize online programs for their employees, as Starbucks does through its deal with the university. More...
By David Matthews for Times Higher Education. University leaders and scientists are outraged by decision of national quality assurance agency, which says it has no choice because of a law linking recognition to job prospects. More...
By Rachael Pells for Times Higher Education. A controversial job advertisement that was pulled after an online backlash has shined a spotlight on employment practices that many scholars view as exploitative of early-career researchers. More...
By Ellie Bothwell for Times Higher Education. A new multibillion-dollar strategy from the Russian government to boost the country’s global research standing is a welcome step but is unlikely to have a broad impact on its higher education system, experts have predicted. More...
By Anna McKie for Times Higher Education. Academics have criticized plans for the University of Oxford’s new graduate college, which they say is a push from central management to diminish the collegiate system. More...
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