The University of California-Berkeley is restricting professors from proctoring virtual exams to ensure students don’t cheat. Rather, the university has opted to implement a “browser lockdown” method. Campus Reform obtained a campus-wide email sent by...
Feigning outrage that college is too expensive is a bipartisan pastime, so it’s refreshing to see a presidential candidate taking the cost-drivers seriously. Senator Marco Rubio is highlighting an obscure network of higher-ed busybodies...
One of the most obvious fields in which making changes has been harmful is education. To be kind, in many instances the tinkering has been well intended but a failure. Survey after survey have...
College commencement season used to be the time for young men and women to step confidently into the world on their own. A new survey by the employment website AfterCollege finds that 83 percent...
Next spring, seniors at about 200 U.S. colleges will take a new test that could prove more important to their future than final exams: an SAT-like assessment that aims to cut through grade-point averages...
Review of John C. Cross and Edie Goldenberg’s Off-Track Profs: Nontenured Teachers in Higher Education. (Cambridge: MIT Press): 2009. According to the AAUP, 48 percent of faculty are part-timers, and 68 percent of all...
WASHINGTON, DC—As study after study continues to find that grade inflation at universities nationwide shows no sign of abating, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni released today a short guide to help trustees...
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