Academic Leadership

Two weeks after its athletic teams joined the Big Ten, Rutgers University has accepted an invitation to join the sports conference's academic arm.

Officials at the University of Central Arkansas may have played favorites — including renewing a scholarship worth thousands for a student who might not be qualified — and turned a blind eye to questioning then Chief of Staff Jack Gillean about his missing key.

One of the most popular topics in education technology these days is the subject of MOOCs, otherwise known as “Massive Open Online Courses.”

Pearson College, the newest institution of higher education in Britain, does not have ancient ivy-covered buildings or a grassy quadrangle where students can while away the hours debating whether Plato or Aristotle came closer to the truth.

It’s always heartening to learn of examples of academic cooperation involving South Sound’s three homes to higher education – South Puget Sound Community College, Saint Martin’s University and The Evergreen State College.

Chancellor Hamid Shirvani said increase is needed to keep up with increasing costs and to support the “big agenda” of the system and the state’s 11 public colleges and universities.

American universities represent declining value for money to their students

Conventional wisdom states that the future of higher education lies online.

It has been a long time since there was a clarion call for higher education.

In 2010-11, 54 percent of students coming out of high school failed at least one subject on the Florida College System’s placement test.