In a move that will ultimately bring its public online content in line with new federal accessibility standards, the University of California, Berkeley has begun removing older videos and other documents that don’t meet the mark. Previously, the school had made more than 20,000 videos, audio recordings and documents publicly accessible through platforms including YouTube, […]

The “perfect storm” of a weak economy, the expansion of for-profit schools and greater competition for fewer students has forced many colleges to become more strategic about their survival, and to avoid previously unthinkable options, including closing their doors for good. In Consolidating Colleges and Merging Universities (2017, Johns Hopkins University Press), James Martin and […]

While the gender-related pay gap in higher education has gotten only marginally smaller in the last few years, women’s salaries still lag behind those for men. And while there are almost as many women (49 percent) as men working in higher ed, there are fewer women in top executive positions. Those findings are part of […]

The student debt crisis—despite dire warnings from the media—is not as bad as it is portrayed, researchers Beth Akers and Matthew Chingos say.  In their book Game of Loans: The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt (Princeton University Press, 2016), the authors say the popular myth of looming crisis has obscured the real problems facing student […]

Andrew Lippman is one of the foremost experts on viral communication and digital life. As a founder of MIT’s Media Lab, Lippman had been studying this field long before many of us ever heard of the internet. Currently, he heads the lab’s Viral Communications Group, which explores how infrastructure-free, personal communications systems will transform society […]

President Donald Trump has made immigration reform a centerpiece of his young administration. New policies include banning travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S., and a plan to deport millions of undocumented immigrants. That has raised concerns about undocumented students who attend college under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and […]

Industry expert and college professor Gary Kayye says we’ve reached the start of true AV and IT convergence.

Remember Rate My Professor, the website that allows college students to rate faculty performance? While that site isn’t tied to any ideology, a new conservative website makes no attempt to disguise its motive. The Professor Watchlist, launched last fall by the nonprofit Turning Point USA, challenges students: “Help us expose and document college professors who […]