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15 février 2015

Setting a Watchman on the Language of the Past

By Lucy Ferriss. I heard the news of Harper Lee’s new novel—or, to be precise, of the planned release of the companion novel to To Kill a Mockingbird that she penned many decades ago—while I was doing research at the Missouri Historical Library and Research Center. My own subject, still vaguely outlined, is the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, now more than a century in the past. Lee’s subject, of course, was the Jim Crow racism that prevailed in the mid-20^th century American South. More...

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15 février 2015

Washington Bill Would Let College Adjuncts Qualify as Substitute Teachers

By Peter Schmidt. An unusual bill pending in Washington State’s Senate would clear the way for experienced adjunct faculty members at colleges to be certified as substitute teachers in public schools. More...

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15 février 2015

Bill Would Outlaw College-Ratings System and Gainful-Employment Rule

By Andy Thomason. An influential Republican lawmaker on Friday introduced a bill that would abolish the U.S. Department of Education’s gainful-employment rule and outlaw the Obama administration’s forthcoming college-ratings system, among other things. More...

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15 février 2015

Harvard and MIT Are Sued Over Closed Captioning for Online Materials

By Andy Thomason. A new lawsuit accuses Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of failing to provide closed captioning in online teaching materials, in violation of federal antidiscrimination laws, The New York Times reports. The lawsuits were filed by the National Association of the Deaf, and seek an injunction requiring that closed captioning be provided for all online materials. More...

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15 février 2015

Less-Prestigious Law Schools Enroll More Minority Students, Report Says

By Andy Thomason. Less-prestigious law schools are enrolling more minority students in an effort to counter a nationwide dip in applications and enrollments, a new study suggests. That trend does not extend to the most prestigious institutions, according to a paper describing the study by Aaron N. Taylor, an assistant professor at Saint Louis University’s School of Law. More...

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15 février 2015

Online Giant Pearson Gets Big Payoffs Despite Results, Investigation Shows

By Andy Thomason. A Politico investigation shows that the publishing and learning-technology giant Pearson gets big payouts even when it falls short of recruitment goals it establishes with its university clients in contracts to create online courses. For example, the company’s contract with Rutgers University dictates that if Pearson recruits fewer students than expected to its online-degree programs, it may actually receive a larger portion of students’ tuition. More...

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15 février 2015

How Reviews on ‘Rate My Professors’ Describe Men and Women Differently

By Nick DeSantis. The student-evaluation site Rate My Professors contains a huge stockpile of information about what college students think of their instructors. And thanks to a new tool created by a Northeastern University professor, those millions of reviews can be mined to reveal students’ biases about male and female professors. More...

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15 février 2015

Professors Know About High-Tech Teaching Methods, but Few Use Them

By Casey Fabris. Innovation is sweeping the world of higher education, but not all faculty members are embracing it in their classrooms. A new survey from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has found that 40 percent of the professors surveyed use or are interested in using innovative techniques and technologies. Read more...

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15 février 2015

Meet the New, Self-Appointed MOOC Accreditors: Google and Instagram

By Jeffrey R. Young. A big question for MOOCs, the free online courses that hundreds of colleges now offer, is whether employers will take them seriously as credentials. But some of the biggest MOOC producers may have figured out how to jump-start employer buy-in: Get big-name companies to help design them. Read more...

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15 février 2015

Foreign-Language Enrollments Drop After Years of Increases

By Maddy Berner. Enrollments in foreign-language courses at American colleges have declined after nearly 20 years of growth, falling 6.7 percent from the fall of 2009 to the fall of 2013, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Modern Language Association. Read more...

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