This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rising tuition costs and increasing skepticism about the value of the traditional four-year degree are causing students, higher education organizations, and government officials to turn to alternative programs that are touted as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Attending medical school is a costly venture. In order to help some medical students avoid debt, former Merck CEO Roy Vagelos and his wife Diana gave $250 million to Columbia…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Gov. Cuomo recently unveiled a set of measures intended to aid New Yorkers struggling with “exploding” student loan debt. The proposals, which will be part of Cuomo’s State of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s been a bad year for universities. The row over vice-chancellors’ pay has been a long, drawn-out box set of disasters for universities, with the highest-paid leader, the head of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a departure from its usual focus on degree attainment, the Lumina Foundation recently pledged $2.5 million to support racial justice work on college campuses. Also of note, the grants,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many students in my “Music and Healing” course played in school bands and orchestras, or sang in choral and musical-theater productions. But almost none of them still sing or play…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo plans to introduce legislation that would require all campuses in the State University and City University of New York systems to create their own food pantries…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. California community college students now have a faster route to a four-year degree, thanks to two new state laws enacted this fall. In October, Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB 705, allowing more…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A robot called Bina48 has successfully taken a course in the philosophy of love at Notre Dame de Namur University, in California. Bina48 ended up learning “31 different versions of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Technological innovations in the 21st century have enabled researchers to collect and process data about human behavior at an unprecedented scale, but are social scientists keeping up? In his book,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the first time, the number of women enrolling in U.S. medical schools has exceeded the number of men, according to new data released today by the AAMC (Association of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More and more instructors are choosing open educational resources over traditional textbooks, a survey of more than 2,700 faculty members reveals. The “Opening the Textbook” survey, published by the Babson Survey…