The Digital Campus: The 2012 Report
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Open Education's Wide World of Possibilities
Who uses open courseware? Orphans in Mongolia. Teachers in California. Scientists in the Arctic. And yak herders in Tibet.
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How One Instructor Teaches 2,670 Students
John Boyer of Virginia Tech employs a host of technologies in a world-events class that attracts students in droves—and they're learning.
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The Imperfect Art of Designing Online Courses
Growing pressure to provide more virtual instruction is spurring efforts to design large courses that balance standardization of content with flexibility for instructors.
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Breaking Down Menus Digitally, Dish by Dish
Food served up by New York's restaurants lives on at the New York Public Library, in a collection of 40,000 bills of fare that date from the 1840s.
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Leader of NYU and Its 'Global Network' Warms Up to E-Mail—and Then Some
John Sexton was late to embrace e-mail, but now he's among the most electronically accessible presidents.
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READ THE FULL REPORT: The Digital Campus
Diversity in Academe 2011
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Educators Start Early to Create a College-Going Culture Among Hispanics in Texas
Institutions like South Texas College are pairing up with local school officials to reach out to students, even in kindergarten.
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All Together: the Role of Latino Families in Higher Education
Colleges looking to serve Hispanic students must also serve their family members.
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A Road Map to Their Future: What Latino Students Need to Graduate
Lessons from the University of Texas-Pan American point to what's important in helping Latino students get a degree.
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Diversity in Academe: Read the Full Special Report
Quality & Assessment
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Graduation Rates Fall at One-Third of 4-Year Colleges
Campus officials cite competing priorities, longer time to degree, and students' difficult financial straits.
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Measure or Perish
The debate over student learning should be about who gets to design the measuring stick and who decides how it will be used.
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30 Ways to Rate a College
There's no real consensus among college-ranking systems as to what makes an institution great. But almost nobody checks into student outcomes.
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Great Colleges to Work For 2011
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Interactive: Great Colleges to Work For 2011
The Chronicle's fourth annual survey asked faculty and staff to assess their employers as workplaces. Use our tool to find out which colleges excel in which areas.
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Forum: The Future of Faculty Unions
Will collective bargaining survive in its current form? Do we want it to? See what six commentators had to say.
- Bridging the Generational Tech Gap
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Professor Mom: Finding Work-Family Balance Despite the Odds
The Almanac of Higher Education
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Finance: A Reset for Higher Education
To understand what needs to be done now, we need to first understand the changes pressuring our enterprise: deficits, demographics, and demand.
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The Profession: More Pressure on Faculty Members, From Every Direction
Changes in the American professoriate's employment patterns and work life are the greatest we have seen in over half a century.
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Student Demographics: As Students Change, Colleges Must Follow
Where will we find the new graduates that President Obama calls for? Not among the affluent young people who are already likely to attend college.
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Technology: The CIO of the Future—A Problem-Solver and a Knowledge-Builder
Making decisions about which technologies to acquire requires wise choices, with little room for error.
- READ THE FULL REPORT: Almanac of Higher Education, 2010
