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...
By Sarah Martin for The Australian. The head of Australia's opposition party signaled how his party plans to approach higher education in next year's elections -- and university officials there are alarmed. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. In trying to shore up its policy on professor-student romantic relationships, did Virginia Commonwealth University create and then advertise a loophole? That’s what some faculty members think. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. Interdisciplinary is both an idea and a buzzword in higher education. Many professors find that their research and teaching interests take them far afield. But it's hard to find consensus on what the term really means. And some fear a loss of disciplinary knowledge that leads to interdisciplinary work. A new book, Undisciplining Knowledge: Interdisciplinarity in the Twentieth Century (Johns Hopkins University Press), considers what interdisciplinarity really means, and both its positive and negative impacts. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. While Bernie Sanders has been attracting considerable support on campuses, few college presidents have been speaking out on behalf of his plan to make public higher education free. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. Forget the 2016 presidential race, Putin's control of Russia or computer modeling of elections. The suddenly hot issue at this weekend's annual meeting of the American Political Science Association is what is being called a "baby ban." Read more...
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