College, Reinvented
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The False Promise of the Education Revolution
Popular "disruptions" have the buzz but might put higher education out of reach for those students who need traditional instruction the most.
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An Old-School Notion: Writing Required
- See All the Ideas: College, Reinvented
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Ditch the Monograph
Great Colleges to Work For 2012
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Breaking a Sweat at Work
Campus wellness offices urge employees to step away from work and get some exercise. The campaigns are not entirely selfless.
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More Stories on How to Beat On-the-Job Pressure
- How We Conducted the Survey
- The Pay's Not Always Great, but Academe Has Its Benefits
Online Learning 2012: MOOC Madness
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Open Courses From America Find Eager Audiences in China
As free courses become more easily available to anyone with a Internet connection, some American professors have developed a huge following abroad.
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Can E-Textbooks Help Save the Planet? It Depends on You
A look at whether e-books make a big difference to a campus's greenhouse-gas emissions.
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How to Use Social Media to Advance Science Programs
Facebook, blogs, LinkedIn: They are among the social networks that that can help raise the energy level in STEM activities. But where to begin?
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The Digital Campus: The 2012 Report
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Open Education's Wide World of Possibilities
Who uses open courseware? Orphans in Mongolia. Teachers in California. Scientists in the Arctic. And yak herders in Tibet.
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How One Instructor Teaches 2,670 Students
John Boyer of Virginia Tech employs a host of technologies in a world-events class that attracts students in droves—and they're learning.
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The Imperfect Art of Designing Online Courses
Growing pressure to provide more virtual instruction is spurring efforts to design large courses that balance standardization of content with flexibility for instructors.
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Breaking Down Menus Digitally, Dish by Dish
Food served up by New York's restaurants lives on at the New York Public Library, in a collection of 40,000 bills of fare that date from the 1840s.
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Leader of NYU and Its 'Global Network' Warms Up to E-Mail—and Then Some
John Sexton was late to embrace e-mail, but now he's among the most electronically accessible presidents.
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READ THE FULL REPORT: The Digital Campus
Diversity in Academe 2012
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In Terms of Gender, Engineering and Teaching Are Lopsided
For all the efforts colleges are making to diversify their departments, some fields of study remain stubbornly single sex.
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Lady Academe and Labor-Market Segmentation
In higher education, women have become better represented, but they are still treated and compensated inequitably.
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Good Silences, Bad Silences, and Unforgivable Silences
For junior women of color on the faculty, a recurring conflict is the tension between voice and no voice.
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Helping First-Generation Students Straddle 2 Cultures
Colleges can provide some assistance and comfort to anxious freshmen who may be intimidated by the world of academe.
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Plus: View Data on Race, Ethnicity, and Gender of Students at 4,438 Institutions
Quality & Assessment
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Graduation Rates Fall at One-Third of 4-Year Colleges
Campus officials cite competing priorities, longer time to degree, and students' difficult financial straits.
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Measure or Perish
The debate over student learning should be about who gets to design the measuring stick and who decides how it will be used.
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30 Ways to Rate a College
There's no real consensus among college-ranking systems as to what makes an institution great. But almost nobody checks into student outcomes.
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