Freshmen in the 15th century had it rough: "Statute Forbidding Any One to Annoy or Unduly Injure the Freshmen. Each and every one attached to this university is forbidden to offend with insult, torment, harass, drench with water or urine, throw on or defile with...
higher education
Schools are listed here with no comment provided. The list of most LGBT unfriendly schools is largely a repeat of last year with 16 returning schools and four replacements (in.
MOOCs totally provide an educational experience equal to or better than traditional college classrooms: In January, San Jose State University made a big announcement: It had reached a deal with.
As you may have heard, 8 Senators have come to an agreement on student loan rates that is blessed by the White House. On July 1, thanks to our dysfunctional (nonfunctional?) political system, the interest rates for student borrowers jumped to an absurd 6.8%. The...
In all the hubbub about the ridiculous salary CUNY wanted to pay David Petraeus to teach, we never thought to ask what kind of teacher he would be. The answer--he's.
I certainly have my critique of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States as a good history book, but it's power and importance can't be denied. And that's.
Continuing with using this space as an opportunity to work out ideas of Oregon's Pay It Forward proposal for higher education, I offer two conflicting views of the idea. Dave Dayen at Alternet offers a piece framing the law as a model not only for...
The Oregon legislature has passed its Pay It Forward bill, which creates an alternative model for funding higher education by students agreeing to pay a percentage of their post-graduation income.
This one goes out to all of you who say that MOOCs are totally the equal of a real lecture class in terms of education quality: Michigan professor Gautam Kaul.
I have a rather strong objection to the term "pay it forward" that is based entirely upon Kevin Spacey sabotaging his own career by starring in New Agey vehicle after New Agey vehicle in the early to mid 2000s, including one by the name above....
While I'm glad that Senate Democrats are fighting for a better bill that would lower student loan interest rates, Obama really left them hanging out to dry after proposing tying.
There's a certain class of conservatives that love to blame postmodernism for everything. One of them is David Brooks, who blames it for the decline in the humanities: The humanist’s.