Author: James Runkle

Columbia University has long been trying to expand northward into a 17-acre portion of land known as Manhattanville. However, several residents have been refusing to sell. But today New York’s top court ruled that a state development agencyhas the right to use eminent domain to

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Grade inflation. That’s when a college or university awards higher grades than the student has earned and deserves. The fact that it exists is bad enough. But the fact that it’s now standard practice as part of a university’s strategy to stay competitive? That’s reprehensible.

Michael Jaskson, who died one year ago this week, influenced pop culture, no doubt. But his impact on academia – psychology, medicine, law, engineering and chemistry – who knew about that?

With unemployment at a record high, it’s a natural to turn to education to help strengthen the skills of the unemployed workers to make them employable again. However, two higher-ed experts (Jamie P. Merisotis, president of the Lumina Foundation for Education, and Stan Jones, president

I never really thought about it, but how come there are grades for A,B,C,D and F but no E? After a quick Google search, it turns out the answer is fairly straightforward: A,B,C and D are the only real grades. F isn’t a grade but

You’ve heard me say it before (OK, you’ve read it when I’ve typed it before, but anyway…) if you can’t track and measure it, don’t do it. Metrics are so important to prove the effectiveness of any marketing campaign – metrics show you what is