By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Education Department on Monday will publish the final rules governing how colleges must alter their handling of campus crime. The new rules, which revise regulations to carry out the law known as the Clery Act, will require colleges to, among other things. More...
By Steve Kolowich. Coursera, the online education company, announced on Wednesday that it was expanding a program that awards special certificates to students who pass multiple MOOCs. By Steve Kolowich. If you want to sell a T-shirt that says “Bring the Juice”—and who among us hasn’t?—you’ll have to clear it with Robert P. Cleveland. 
By Lance Lambert. Stories of college graduates working as baristas and taxi drivers have played into a narrative about how college-degree recipients are struggling to find work that uses their education.
At the same time, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the jobless rate for workers with at least a bachelor’s degree fell to 2.9 percent for the month of September. How can both be true? Many of those with jobs are considered “underemployed,” since they are in jobs that don’t require a college degree. More...
By Christopher Noble. Countless literature professors before me have introduced their classes to Dante’s wilderness wanderings in the selva oscura, but how many of those professors, transcending allegory, have actually been lost in the woods with their students?
I have.
I teach in the High Sierra Program of Azusa Pacific University, a private Christian institution. Situated on 20 acres 12 miles from Yosemite National Park, this off-campus program integrates outdoor experience and leadership training into a humanities curriculum. Read more...
By Jennifer Howard. How much copyrighted material can professors make available to students in online course reserves before they exceed the boundaries of educational fair use? That’s the essential question at the heart of a long-running copyright-infringement lawsuit that has pitted three academic publishers against Georgia State University.
The answer matters not just to the parties to the case, Cambridge University Press et al. v. Carl V. Patton et al., but publishers, librarians, and professors at many other institutions. It’s already been more than six years since Cambridge, Oxford University Press, and SAGE Publications sued Georgia State for copyright infringement. Read more...
By Josie Gurney-Read. The first of four online courses exploring WWI and run by the universities of Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds and the Open University has launched today. Read more...By Emerson Csorba. Entrepreneurship prepares students for long-term academic and work achievement. If you've got an idea, university is an ideal opportunity to pursue it, says Emerson Csorba. Read more...By Eleanor Doughty. While Karren Brady didn't attend university, she says it's important to encourage young people to aim for higher education and apprenticeships. Read more...By Matthew Crawford. Pushing all school leavers to university isn't serving them well – neither as a system for cultivating their minds, nor for guaranteeing economic stability, says Matthew Crawford. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
