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By Paul Fain. Kaplan University will now offer personalized “competency reports” to its 45,000 students. The announcement is the for-profit institution’s biggest move into competency-based education so far, adding momentum and, perhaps, risks for the emerging form of higher education. Read more...

By Kellie Woodhouse. In a push to become one university with seven campuses -- instead of seven universities within one state system -- the University of Maine is considering a single, regional accreditation for all of its campuses. Read more...

By Kellie Woodhouse. Public university students today pay $3,000 more in annual tuition than their counterparts a decade ago.  
Why that is depends on whom you ask. Some pundits like to blame administrative bloat or the construction boom. Within higher education, many cite the decline in state support. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Who’s better suited to teach about American institutions and ideals: cultural anthropologists or historians of U.S. history? That question is at the heart of a debate about a general education requirement at Sacramento State University that’s riled historians there. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. The idea that most adjunct instructors have day jobs and teach one or two courses per semester to make a little extra cash or fulfill a desire for service, or both, has been pretty thoroughly debunked. But a new study published in The Journal of Higher Education offers the most up-to-date data on just how many part-time instructors want a full-time teaching job and can’t find one: some 73 percent. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. “[T]hey can employ not just metaphor, but caricature, which can be harsh… Humor, mockery, satire. People don’t like to be made fun of. They don’t like their views to be made fun of, they don’t like their religion to be made fun of. And sometimes they perceive a harsh personal insult where one is not intended, or maybe where one is intended.” Read more...

By Michael Stratford. Corinthian declared bankruptcy on Monday. Will that affect debt relief for students?
The Education Department’s decision making about loan forgiveness for Corinthian students will not change because of Corinthian’s bankruptcy, a department official said. Read more...

By Michael Stratford. Corinthian Colleges’ declaration of bankruptcy on Monday finalizes the for-profit college’s unprecedented collapse that has morphed into a political firestorm for the Obama administration -- which U.S. Department of Education officials are racing to extinguish. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. German intellectuals created the idea of the research university, and, with it, academic disciplines. In Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University (Johns Hopkins University Press), Chad Wellmon explores this history and its impact on academe in the United States, right up through the creation of massive open online courses. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. This is the time of year full of hysterical news articles about what a small share of applicants gained admission to the likes of Stanford University or the University of California at Berkeley. Read more...