By Will Hochman. “Correct writing is no one’s mother tongue.”

Peter Elbow

Imagine your starfish hands reaching
For ocean floors, tapping attention alive
You discover and reveal yourself in sentences
That only perpetual error can provide. Read more...

By Mark Edmundson. It’s fall, and the academic year is about to start again, so it’s time for the annual bout of questioning and self-questioning that we teachers of the humanities engage in all the time, but especially now. Read more...

By Michael Stratford. The spike in student loan defaults over the last decade has been fueled by students attending for-profit colleges and, to a lesser degree, community colleges, according to a new analysis of millions of federal student loan records. Read more...

By Michael Stratford. The Obama administration early this morning released a trove of new federal data that show how much a college’s former students earn and whether they are successfully repaying their loans. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. Will a slowing Chinese economy lead to a decline in the number of international students in the U.S.?
U.S. universities have grown increasingly reliant on rapid, double-percentage-point-per-annum growth in the number of students from China, who now account for 31 percent of international students in American higher education. Read more...

By Josh Logue. A few years ago, nearly one in six students started at Rhode Island College without declaring a major, and just under 40 percent of them would not return for their sophomore year. Some students were hitting 80 credits earned without a major. Read more...

By Paul Fain. Roughly 600 colleges are in the design phase for a new competency-based education program, are actively creating one or already have a program in place. That’s up from an estimated 52 institutions last year. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. The White House is stepping up the effort to make tuition free at community colleges across the country. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Don’t be surprised if major publishers show up on campus this fall. In an effort to increase awareness -- and sales -- of digital course materials, publishers are pitching and selling their products directly to students. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. The online program management space is booming.
Eduventures, a Boston-based higher education research firm, estimates the market is worth $1.1 billion. Read more...