Teaching

How Notre Dame Rethought Its Core Curriculum

The university recategorized core courses into “ways of knowing” and added flexibility to its requirements.

From the Archives

How a Liberal-Arts College Is Rethinking Its ‘Soul Crushing’ Core Curriculum

Protests by minority students led Harvey Mudd College to scrutinize its notoriously intense course requirements. Campus leaders want to ease pressure on students without sacrificing rigor.

Research

As Cornell Finds Him Guilty of Academic Misconduct, Food Researcher Will Retire

Brian Wansink says his retirement has been “in the works for a long time,” but it comes as a university investigation takes him to task for “misreporting of research data, problematic statistical techniques,” and other violations.

Students

Big Donor’s Facebook Photos of 2 Black Students Unsettle Ole Miss

After Ed Meek illustrated a post about what he called the degradation of the university’s surrounding town with pictures of two African-American women, the chancellor, Jeffrey S. Vitter, quickly condemned it.

Spending

Harvard Raised $9.6 Billion in Its Latest Campaign. Here’s What You Could Do With That Money.

The five-year project broke fund-raising records, earning enough to send an entire state to community college.

Idea Lab: Student Wellness

Colleges want students to make healthy choices and avoid risky behaviors. But the potential pitfalls for undergraduates are great: alcohol abuse, excessive partying, and Greek culture that sometimes can promote dangerous behavior. This collection of articles outlines how leading institutions are making headway. Buy this Idea Lab collection today to help your students be healthier and safer.

Commentary

There’s No One-Size-Fits-All Model for Student Success

A good higher education enables a person to come to grips with the world more deeply, broadly, and richly, and thereby to contribute to what the world has to offer.

Lingua Franca

Nonsense About Universal Translation, Strictly for the Gullible

Geoff Pullum is optimistic about linguistics’ application for practical matters. So why do news outlets perpetuate crazy talk about translating animal language?

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