Academic Leadership

An evaluation team representing the Middle States Commission on Higher Education got to see firsthand how University of Pittsburgh officials planned and assessed emergency situations.

Large-scale cheating has been uncovered over the last year at some of the nation’s most competitive schools, like Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, the Air Force Academy and, most recently, Harvard.

Oklahoma's public colleges and universities exceeded degree completion goals during the last academic year, an official at the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education announced Wednesday.

New Web Resource Gives Voters In-Depth Look at American Political System

Broward College has been named one of 10 national finalists for the prestigious Aspen Prize – an award that recognizes America’s best community colleges, and boasts a $1 million total prize fund.

Thus, it is the higher education “stakeholders” who, viewing higher education as sucking blood money from the body politic, are poised to drive a stake through the heart of liberal education. So, let’s be done with it! Let’s “grow” business!

Harvard students suspected in a major cheating scandal said on Friday that many of the accusations are based on innocent — or at least tolerated — collaboration among students, and with help from graduate-student teachers who sometimes gave them answers to test questions.

"I think the faculty want me out," Yale President Richard Levin told an emeritus professor glumly last spring after a faculty vote of "no confidence" in his and his trustees' move to establish a new liberal-arts college, bearing Yale's name, in collaboration with the authoritarian, corporate city-state of Singapore.

What small colleges have accomplished over the past 50 years could help large public universities regain their footing as models of education, writes guest columnist Robert Allen Skotheim.

Harvard University revealed Thursday what could be its largest cheating scandal in memory, saying that about 125 students might have worked in groups on a take-home final exam despite being explicitly required to work alone.