By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Wisconsin at Stout’s science education program faces elimination because it doesn’t produce enough graduates, even though Wisconsin faces a science teacher shortage, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. “How can faculty work together to create a more coherent and intentional curriculum whose goals, pathways and outcomes are clear to students and other constituencies with a stake in the future of higher education?” With that question, the Teagle Foundation began its Curricular Coherence initiative in 2014. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Professor says she's "terminating" Michigan State as her employer after it ignored her harassment complaints against an administrator and then pursued what she calls cooked-up research misconduct allegations against her. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. A professor at Virginia Commonwealth University is not teaching after he allegedly called campus security on a black adjunct professor eating breakfast in a classroom last month, NBC 12 reported. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Academic researchers within the University of California System voted to form a union affiliated with United Auto Workers, they announced this week. More...

By Doug Lederman. Six years ago, in 2012, Inside Higher Ed introduced its Cartoon Caption Contest, which we hoped would entertain and engage our readers with an alternative to our usual weighty reportage and commentary. More...

By Doug Lederman. Nearly a third of the students enrolled in master's degree tracks in 2016 reported that their program was entirely online, with 21 percent reporting that they took some (but not all) classes online, according to a new report from the Urban Institute that showed surging interest in master's degrees. More...

By Doug Lederman. The University of London will award credit for its bachelor's in computer science to learners who take Google's IT Support Professional Certificate through the Coursera platform, the university and the companies announced today. More...

By Doug Lederman. "Agile Teaching" is Inside Higher Ed's new curated collection of articles.

The booklet, the latest in a series of free, print-on-demand collections, examines new innovations in teaching and learning. More...

By Doug Lederman. Hot topics included questions about which students are well suited for online learning and whether they're the ones policy makers are nudging into online programs, plentiful rhetoric about "big data" and alternative credentials, and much hand-wringing about the potential impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning on the work force, and about the state of the humanities. More...