Higher Education

From U.S. News and World Report comes a piece called, interestingly enough, “Do the U.S. News rankings play key role in determining a school’s academic reputation?” In it, Robert Morse, the director of data research for U.S. News & World Report, addresses the controversy surronding the report published recently in the American Journal of Education. […]

From an article in Community College Times comes an article indicating that it’s now increasingly common for community colleges to offer bachelor’s degrees: [The] embrace of four-year degrees represents a larger national trend that is seeing community colleges across the country increasingly getting the authority to award bachelor’s degrees, said Beth Hagan, executive director of […]

From Business Week comes news that online schools need not be overpriced, for profit Behemoths. One of the newest, and most innovative, is tuition free. From the article: It was just about a year ago that [Shai] Reshef made headlines in the distance learning community with his announcement that he intended to start an online […]

As the United States has known for years, American universities produce too many over-credentialed people in the liberal arts and the social sciences. And now they don’t have jobs. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president emeritus of George Washington University, has an idea about what to do with those people. According to an editorial he wrote for […]

From the Dartmouth College office of public affairs comes news that a New Hampshire judge has rejected a lawsuit by Dartmouth alumni that challenged the school’s decision to expand its board of directors: Judge Timothy J. Vaughan ruled that the seven alumni plaintiffs lacked standing to bring the action and could not pursue claims that […]

The College Guide earlier reported that the much-touted new GI Bill for veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan was becoming a disaster, with payment delays causing many college students severe financial difficulties. Well, they’re working on it. The Department of Veterans Affairs announced yesterday that: In a coordinated effort to speed up the processing […]

College freshmen are very, very worried. According to an article in the New York Times The recession hit this year’s college freshmen hard, affecting how they chose a school as well as their ability to pay for it, according to an annual nationwide survey released Thursday. Over all, students were more likely than previous freshmen […]

From Education Week comes news that high school teachers and college professors don’t agree on how prepared students are for college; high school students are not prepared for college: What does it mean when far more high school teachers think their students are ready for college than do the college instructors who teach them? It […]

Apparently the University of South Carolina is not, officially, USC. USC is the University of Southern California. According to an article in Inside Higher Ed, yesterday the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that: Southern Cal — not the University of South Carolina — had the rightful trademark claim to an […]

Wheaton College is arguably the most influential American Christian college. According to the Princeton Review’s The Best 351 Colleges, “If the integration of faith and learning is what you want out of a college, Wheaton is arguably the best school in the nation with a Christ-based worldview.” But if it’s evangelical, it’s not fundamentalist. Wheaton […]