Purdue’s Bold Move
Purdue University’s acquisition of Kaplan University is an unexpected tectonic shift in American higher education, revealing both the changing roles of public universities and the dwindling fortunes of for-profit colleges.
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Someone Else’s Words
Paraphrasing tools, freely available online, can fool plagiarism detection software, study finds.
Gender Gaps Shrinking and Lingering
New research suggests limited role for gender in predicting whether new Ph.D.s will get tenure-track jobs, but notable differences on pay and other issues, favoring men.
Who Defines Expertise?
Accreditor’s new rules are forcing a professor who has taught philosophy for 50 years to stop doing so, because her Ph.D. is in English. Many object.
J-Schools Dump Accreditor
Northwestern’s journalism school drops its accreditor, shortly after Berkeley did the same, echoing broader questions about the value of the process and whether it impedes innovation.
Pushing Public Higher Ed Boundaries
Purdue’s deal for Kaplan U trades a long-term business relationship for low up-front costs while raising worries -- especially among faculty groups -- about blurred lines between public and private higher ed.
Purdue Faculty Questions Kaplan Deal
Senate passes resolution rebuking the university’s unexpected acquisition and calling for it to be rescinded.
Leaving Over Campus Carry
Professor’s public resignation letter points to tensions in Kansas as new law takes effect this summer.
The New Student ID
Despite questions about privacy, colleges using biometric authentication such as iris scans say they are mostly concerned with getting students into campus facilities as quickly as possible.
A Plan to Kill High School Transcripts …and Transform College Admissions
More than 100 elite private high schools aim to replace traditional transcripts with competency-based, nonstandardized documents -- with no grades. They plan to expand to public high schools, with goal of completely changing how students are evaluated.
