By Colleen Flaherty. New study suggests that narcissistic business students thrive under narcissistic professors, while less narcissistic students suffer, to the detriment of all. Read more...
Crisis Averted?
By Paul Fain. Low-income and nondependent students have been protected from state disinvestment in higher education during the last two decades because of increasing federal aid spending, a new study finds. Read more...
The 21st-Century Public Research University
By Ellen Wexler. A report offers suggestions for how public research universities can thrive at a time of declining state support and increasing accountability. Read more...
Free College, Political Support: Survey of Community College Leaders
By Ashley A. Smith. This time last year, the national conversation around the free community college movement seemed to be picking up steam. Read more...
May the Best Idea Win
By Colleen Flaherty. New book argues that students involved in campus protests over controversial speakers or ideas should instead support a marketplace of ideas in which all notions are heard and the best rise to the top. Read more...
Effectiveness, Defined Broadly
By Doug Lederman. New volume of research examines various aspects of higher education performance, going well beyond labor market outcomes to include academic quality and socioeconomic equity. Read more...
Fight Over Debt Collection Records
By Michael Stratford. Federal lawsuit seeks to force the Education Department to provide information about its debt collection practices, including their impact on minority borrowers. Read more...
Creative Solutions in Florida
By Ashley A. Smith. A two-year college in Florida makes dramatic gains in developmental education course pass rates, even amid a state-mandated change to remedial education and the addition of performance funding. Read more...
A Larger Role for Libraries
By Carl Straumsheim. Study explores faculty members' views on scholarly communication, the use of information and the state of academic libraries and their concerns about students' research skills. Read more...
Gaming the Formula
By Paul Fain. State performance funding formulas lead to small decline in Pell revenue per student, new study finds, suggesting public colleges may be gaming formulas by enrolling fewer low-income students. Read more...