By Lindsay McKenzie. Two congressional Democrats have written to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to oppose the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed two-year delay for implementing state authorization rules. More...
Google Adds Federal Data to College Searches
By Lindsay McKenzie. Search for a four-year college on Google, and you’ll now be presented with data on admission rates, graduation rates and tuition costs, in addition to the usual link to Wikipedia. More...
Massachusetts and Puerto Rico Join SARA
By Lindsay McKenzie. Massachusetts and Puerto Rico have officially joined the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement -- a regulatory framework that aims to make it simpler for colleges and universities to offer online education across the U.S. More...
Free MOOCs Face the Music
By Lindsay McKenzie. In its quest to find a sustainable business model, online course provider edX will test charging users for access to previously free content. Observers say the move was inevitable. More...
Chain Adds Employee Education Benefits
By Lindsay McKenzie. First Watch employees can now complete their high school education for free through Cengage’s Career Online High School, which also works with employers such as Walmart, McDonald’s and Hilton. More...
MIT Trials First U.S. ‘Read and Publish’ Agreement
By Lindsay McKenzie. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries system has signed a publishing agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry, thought to be the first of its kind in North America. More...
A College President’s Twitter Strategy
By Lindsay McKenzie. A student newspaper at the University of British Columbia has criticized President Santa Ono for mixing policy statements with personal views on social media. The president has been uncharacteristically quiet in response. More...
Open-Access Best Sellers
By Lindsay McKenzie. Last week University College London Press, Britain’s first fully open-access university press, celebrated a milestone -- one million downloads of its free academic books. More...
Walmart to Offer Debt-Free Degrees to Employees
By Lindsay McKenzie. In partnership with education platform Guild Education, Walmart will offer its 1.4 million employees access to subsidized associate’s and bachelor’s degrees. Employees will also be able to convert completed job training into college credit. More...
Gender Gap Without Gender Bias?
By Colleen Flaherty. Study says editors of major political science journals demonstrate no systematic bias against female authors. Yet women authors remain underrepresented in the field. More...