Chinese Students Prove a Tricky Fit on U.S. Campuses

A big increase in the number of students from China would seem to be a boon for American colleges, but it's proved to be challenging all around.

Escalation in Digital Sleuthing Raises Quandary in Classrooms

Technology has made finding plagiarism easier. Now students can vet their work against the same database that professors use.

A College Town Imagines a New Way of Life

David Orr, a professor of environmental studies at Oberlin College, is reinventing the campus and its community for a future of scarcity.

More Universities Break the Taboo and Talk to Ph.D.'s About Jobs Outside Academe

Ohio State's recent Alternative Career Day is part of a growing movement to recognize that taking a job outside academe is by no means an admission of failure.

3 Ph.D.'s Who Veered Away From the Professoriate

Milwaukee Strives to Educate a New Water-Industry Boom Town

Colleges in the region have joined the effort to train students for jobs in freshwater research and technology.

Out of Their Comfort Zone

Mount Mary College, in Milwaukee, uses diversity training to increase student retention, hoping in turn to raise graduation rates.

Universities Continue to Increase Start-Ups and Commercialization of Research

The 150 institutions that responded to an annual survey reported licensing and related revenues of just under $1.8-billion last year.

Sortable Table: Licensing Revenue and Patent Activity, 2010 Fiscal Year

Affirmative-Action Critics See Texas Case as a Vehicle for a Supreme Court Victory

The critics are optimistic that the court will take up a case challenging race-conscious admissions policies of the University of Texas at Austin.

'Nosy' and Observant, a Neuroscientist Continues Her Memorable Career at 93

Brenda Milner is honored for contributions to biomedical science that stem from her observations of H.M, perhaps psychology's most famous amnesiac.

A High-Flying Professor's Pet Project

An adjunct professor of engineering at George Mason University flies with Pilots N Paws to save dogs that are scheduled to die.

An Anthropology Student Who's Taking On the Governor of Florida

Lyndsey Fitzgerald, a former Navy linguist now studying at the University of Central Florida, has begun a petition to protest proposed cuts in liberal-arts programs.

Editor's Note

Online Programs Face New Demands From Accreditors

Accreditors and the U.S. Department of Education go head-to-head over online learning.

Art Programs Build Models for Online Instruction

Despite questions about the use of computers in teaching creative courses, some students and faculty embrace the use of tutorials and videotaped lectures for mastering...

A Chain of For-Profit Art Institutes Comes Under Scrutiny

A lawsuit claims that recruiting success comes at the expense of students who later find themselves unemployed and deep in debt

Foreign-Language Instruction, Digitally Speaking

Driven by growing demand and cost savings, several colleges are mapping a fully online future for language education.

7 Community Colleges Try an Online Doorway to Help Students Succeed

Their grades improved, and more of them were more likey to stay in college.

For U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan, Online Courses Fill a Valued Niche

With military personnel better educated and eager to advance their careers, the past decade has seen a surge in the number of troops pursuing studies while deployed.

How Technology Can Improve Online Learning

The president of an online university says the quality of education is largely independent of the mode of delivery.

No Tuition? No Problem.

The founder of the tuition-free University of the People says, "Take my business plan, please!"

Let's Deregulate Online Learning

It has been shoehorned into a financial and quality-assurance model that does not fit its economics.

Assessment Changes Online Teaching From an Art to a Science

Great strides are being made in the quality of online courses, enabling a revolution in service to nontraditional students.

A Social Network Is a Learning Network

When students write for one another, or even for the world, they produce authentic expressions of what they've absorbed in class.

The Myth of the Tech-Savvy Student

Why wouldn't we educate students in sophisticated uses of the Internet, which commands an increasing amount of the world's time and attention?

Why 'Digital Natives' Aren't Necessarily Digital Learners

Proponents of the new learning technologies ignore the human side of using them. Just because we can use something doesn't mean we should.

Why I No Longer Teach Online

Teaching needs to bring a sense of shared humanity to students and instructors. Online learning doesn't do that well.

From Homeric Writings to Cellphone Forensics, Some Favorite Online Resources

Professors describe some of the Web-based tools they have found most useful in their teaching and research.

To Protect Your Next Bright Idea, Mind What You Say and When You Say It

The new America Invents Act may well change the way universities and their researchers share information about their patentable inventions.

Bring Down the Barriers—Seen and Unseen

Many campuses fall short of creating truly inclusive environments for people with disabilities and fail to realize how those people can invigorate the classroom.

Why Do Teacher-Education Programs Fear a New Rating System?

The National Council on Teacher Quality wants every classroom to have a strong teacher. Colleges that prepare teachers shouldn't resist that goal.

Scratching the Thin Veneer of Academic Debate

"While the public debate is always coated in political correctness and comforting assertions of mutual respect, one can still scratch the thin veneer and glimpse the...

Occupy Wall Street Isn't Linked to Anarchy

"America is now suffering 'death by a thousand cuts,' and participants in Occupy Wall Street have each brought attention to one of those thousand problems."

My Tenure and Yours

Turned down for promotion four times, a faculty member finally joins the tenured ranks.