By Lindsay McKenzie. State authorization rules that were supposed to be delayed for two years may have accidentally gone into effect due to an apparent error by the U.S. Department of Education. More...
DeVos Delays State Authorization Rules
By Lindsay McKenzie. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos confirmed last week that an expected two-year delay of state authorization rules will go ahead. More...
A Race Against Time to Preserve University Media Collections
By Lindsay McKenzie. Irreplaceable audio and video recordings from the 20th century are languishing in university collections, deteriorating. Can they be saved. More...
California Boot Camp Shuts Down
By Lindsay McKenzie. Learners Guild, a California-based coding boot camp, has ceased operations. More...
Breaking Through the ‘Parchment Ceiling’
By Lindsay McKenzie. In his new book, the digital education veteran Peter Smith calls for an end to “knowledge discrimination” at our colleges and universities. More...
Feds Plan Accreditation Experimentation
By Lindsay McKenzie. Key Education Department official says innovators in higher ed should not be held back by their accreditors. More...
Humboldt State, Facing Deficit, Drops Football
By Greg Toppo. Humboldt State University will discontinue its football program after the 2018 season to help trim its deficit, the university announced on its website. Humboldt, one of 23 campuses in the California State University System, said on Wednesday that the move is part of an effort to cut spending by $9 million and balance its budget by the 2020-21 academic year. More...
Can a $49 English Test Pass Muster?
By Greg Toppo. A new, ultra-low-cost English skills test is crashing the already crowded party of higher ed language assessment, offering prospective international students the ability to demonstrate their English skills from virtually anywhere with an internet connection. More...
Sources: Bad News Cut From Michigan State Alumni Magazine
By Greg Toppo. After a review by Michigan State University interim president John Engler, an upcoming edition of the university’s alumni magazine will not include planned long-form essays exploring how the Larry Nassar sexual abuse case has tainted the university, multiple anonymous administration sources told the Detroit Free Press. More...
Time to Dismiss the Stanford Prison Experiment?
By Greg Toppo. The 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment has long been considered a window into the horrors ordinary people can inflict on one another, but new interviews with participants and reconsideration of archival records shed more light on the findings. More...