By Doug Lederman. Daniel Greenstein, who has overseen the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's work on postsecondary education since 2012, announced Monday that he would leave the foundation next month. More...
Provosts' Views on Online Learning and OER
By Doug Lederman. Eighty-three percent of provosts say they expect their institution to expand its online programs and offerings in the coming year, and 52 percent agree that they expect to make a "major allocation" of funds to online programs, according to Inside Higher Ed's 2018 Survey of College and University Chief Academic Officers. More...
Blackboard to Make VitalSource Catalog Seamlessly Available
By Doug Lederman. Blackboard announced Tuesday that it will make VitalSource's Inclusive Access model of digital curricular materials available through its learning management systems. More...
Delaware Tech Selects Brightspace by D2L as LMS
By Doug Lederman. Delaware Technical Community College has selected D2L's Brightspace learning management system to deliver its online and blended instruction, the company announced. D2L said Delaware Tech had migrated away from Blackboard Learn. More...
The Pulse: USciences eLearning 3.0
By Doug Lederman. In this month's episode of The Pulse podcast, Rodney B. Murray discusses USciences eLearning 3.0, the conference that his institution, the University of the Sciences, is holding March 7. More...
Court Reverses Ruling on Administrator's Speech
By Doug Lederman. A former West Chester University administrator's complaints about the public university's budgeting practices did not qualify as protected speech because the comments came during the normal course of her job, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said in a ruling Friday. More...
Trustees Take Heat
By Rick Seltzer. Scrutiny keeps mounting on remaining officials, as the Board of Trustees faces extreme pressure over its handling of the situation and reporters dig anew into sexual assault and violence claims involving the university’s best-known athletic programs. A dean at the university even took the unusual step of issuing his own statement ripping leaders’ response to the situation. More...
Grinnell's Gun Connection
By Rick Seltzer. Donation from NRA president helped prompt college to change gift policy, raising questions: If you take someone's money, are you endorsing them? What if he boasts of getting professors "giddy" about shooting guns. More...
For College Presidents, Is 70 the New 50?
By Rick Seltzer. Administrators in their 60s and 70s keep snagging prestigious university presidencies. Some see a roadblock rising in front of a new generation of more diverse leaders, while others believe boards are valuing experience and wisdom. More...
Fault Lines on Display
By Rick Seltzer. Yes, there are the stalwart tensions: liberal arts versus job training, free speech versus inclusive campuses, public institutions versus privates, colleges versus regulation. Then there are the less obvious, yet still very real divides: educating adult students versus traditional 18- to 22-year-olds, giving colleges more public funding versus demanding they control costs. More...