By Michael Stratford. A bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved Corinthian’s plan to liquidate its assets, earmarking about $4.3 million for a special fund for former students. Read more...
30 août 2015
30 août 2015
‘Free’ vs. ‘Affordable’
By Michael Stratford. Following a monthslong effort by liberal groups to push “debt-free college” -- and after President Obama’s call for free community college earlier this year -- leading Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders both now have proposals that would expand the role of the federal government in higher education. Read more...
30 août 2015
Coping With Cuts
By Kellie Woodhouse. Four-year public colleges and universities have increased their education-related spending even as overall funding has declined. Read more...
30 août 2015
Presidential Personality
By Kellie Woodhouse. Imagine this scenario: a presidential search is underway at a college. A candidate visits campus and is perceived by a board member as being overly ambitious and narcissistic. The trustee is ready to cut the candidate from the short list, but a subsequent test reveals that while the candidate is ambitious, that ambition is reserved not necessarily for self but channeled into whatever organization he or she is affiliated with. Read more...
30 août 2015
Discounting Grows Again
By Kellie Woodhouse. A report from the National Association of College and University Business Officers released today reveals that tuition discount rates are at an all-time high and many institutions are using the strategy to a point that, according a top analyst at NACUBO, is "not sustainable." Read more...
30 août 2015
Multiple Personalities, Disorder
By Carl Straumsheim. According to a working paper released Monday, learners have found a fittingly massive way of cheating their way to a good grade in a MOOC. A single MOOC can enroll tens if not hundreds of thousands of learners at once, and by creating multiple accounts, a single learner can “harvest” correct answers that they can use to earn a perfect score and a certificate showing their mastery of the topic. Read more...
30 août 2015
Taking a Step Back
By Carl Straumsheim. Middlebury College is ending its at times controversial online education partnership with K12, with administrators at the college citing the experience gained but also the “tensions” of working with a for-profit company. Read more...
30 août 2015
Why Replication Matters
By Colleen Flaherty. Science is a process, not a product -- often a long one. And key to the process of organizing and creating knowledge is replication, or reproducing even the most credible-seeming results to help confirm their validity or to expose flaws in the work. Read more...
30 août 2015
Developing Adjuncts
By Colleen Flaherty. Non-tenure-track faculty members are the majority of the teaching force, so what are colleges and universities doing to help them develop as teachers? As for many issues related to adjuncts, there’s a significant data gap on the topic -- in part because adjuncts are diverse and decentralized, making them hard to study. Read more...
30 août 2015
Not So 'Fun Home'
By Colleen Flaherty. Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic has won numerous accolades and its stage adaptation swept this summer's Tony Awards. Read more...
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