By . Is the college credit hour obsolete?
Perhaps, but colleges lack a suitable replacement, according to a report following a two-year study by a committee formed by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
For more than 100 years, college students have received credits for successfully completing courses. But today, the credit hour may not be an adequate measure of learning, the report says. More...
By Chelsey Levingston and Amanda Seitz. College graduates aren’t the only ones finding themselves deep in debt.
Ohio’s 14 public universities have more than doubled the debt they owe in recent years to an unprecedented $6.5 billion.
Nearly all of the money college officials have borrowed is a result of building booms on Ohio’s campuses. More...
By Thomas J. Botzman. The U.S. Department of Education has been working to establish the Postsecondary Institution Rating System (PIRS) since President Obama announced it in August 2013. The proposed system is planned to provide consumers of higher education with objective data and information that helps students make educated decisions between different institutions. More...
By Eric Stoller. When I started out in higher education, I wanted to be a physical therapist. My first year of coursework at Indian Hills Community College was everything that a budding pre-health student required. After two years of study at IHCC, I graduated with my associate's degree. Transferring to the University of Northern Iowa, I was anything but a pre-health student. During those first two years of college I had discovered that I wasn't really that interested in studying science. More...
By Emily VanBuren. Last quarter, after surviving coursework, qualifying exams, and the dissertation proposal, at long last, I arrived at the glorious land of being ABD. Along the way, I’ve taken advantage of many of the strategies suggested here on GradHacker, and have found the archive of advice and reflections very helpful. But when it came time to fulfill the final phase of the candidacy process — writing and defending the dissertation prospectus — I found fewer resources here (but found these two especially useful). Read more...
By GradHacker. GradHacker is looking for regular correspondents to head up a new column focusing on current events related to graduate school. We envision this as a weekly feature, in the form of either one specific story or a round-up of news relevant to graduate education. We also invite applicants to pitch their own ideas for the format of this regular feature. We are looking to recruit multiple current events bloggers to share this featured column (and ensure that the time commitment remains manageable), but we are also open to the possibility of a solo column for the right candidate. Read more...
By Liz Reisberg. In the global competition that determines which country commits the most and worst human rights violations, there are only losers. If universities anywhere are going to engage in international endeavors and partnerships, then the members of those academic communities will have to decide whether and how to confront policies and practices of host governments that they may find distasteful. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. This morning, catching up on the Sunday New York Times (which often takes me the better part of a week), I felt as if a lot of synapses were firing, making connections in unexpected places. It started with an op-ed piece by Jeffrey M. Zacks, a Washington University psychology professor who studies the way we tend to absorb beliefs from the movies. “Our minds are not well equipped to sort good sources from bad ones,” he writes, because we forget where we originally encountered information. Read more...
By Matt Reed. Elizabeth Lehfeldt’s piece this week encouraging faculty to try their hands at academic administration struck a chord with me. Read more...
By Matt Reed. What was your proudest teaching moment?
I’m working on an extended piece I hope to deliver later this Spring, and the piece led me to a reflection on my own proudest teaching moments. They weren’t what I thought they would be when I went into higher ed. Read more...
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