By Ellie Bothwell. Ellie Bothwell looks at the potential impact of Justin Trudeau’s election on the higher education system. More...

By Joianne Smith - Evolllution. Many students begin their studies at a community college but transfer to a university prior to completing an associate’s degree. At Oakton Community College, of the students who transfer, 89 percent do so prior to degree completion, compared to 11 percent that transfer after earning an associate’s degree. More...

By Andrew Kelly - Evolllution. For too long, we’ve judged the quality of American higher education according to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s famous standard for pornography: “I know it when I see it.” Our current system evaluates colleges almost entirely on “inputs”—the academic pedigree of the students they admit, the credentials of their faculty, the number of volumes in their library, the flashiness of their amenities, and so on. More...

By John Ebersole - Evolllution. We usually think of education, at all levels, as a state responsibility. Yet, there is nothing in our constitution that makes this explicit. A result has been growing involvement by the federal government, at both the K-12 and tertiary levels. An example of this, and the backlash it has created, can be seen in the Common Core Curriculum. More...