There has been much discussion lately about the tenure track for teachers, whether elementary, high school or college. With Obama’s Race to the Top initiative, “states leading the way on school reform will be eligible to compete for$4.35 billion in Race to the Top competitive
From the Chronicle comes this piece by Alexandra Tilsley on how hard hit universities in New Jersey are by the recent budget crunch. Excerpts are below or clickthrough for the full story. “High debt loads, limits on tuition, and a sharp reduction in state support
Check out this cool video…it’s all about the numbers. It’s a beautiful short film demonstrating mathematical principles as they appear in nature. Recommended for: people who like neat animation, easy-to-understand math, and/or something to divert them on a day when not much else is happening
As people who work in higher education, we tend to be people who are…well…word nerds. We spend a lot of our time crafting the perfect copy for a brochure, the snappiest of taglines for a billboard, or the most satiating response to “why is your
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
