Alarm bells went off recently at my institution when some colleagues reported that they’d heard that “PDFs are not accessible” and that all of our
(Unpaid) Internships and Experiential Learning
Seems one of the buzz-concepts these days is “education that happens outside the classroom.” Never mind, for now, that there are interesting ideological battles buried
Takacs and Chambliss on "Systemic Advising"
Chris Takacs and Dan Chambliss are the authors of the forthcoming How College Works (Harvard, February 2014). Their work is based on an eight year
Does Assessment Work?
A short commentary on assessment from a respected sociologist who has done a big assessment project funded by the Mellon Foundation and who served several
Education Resources from NYT
A list of resources from around the Web about education as selected by researchers and editors of The New York Times. General Education Department National
Two More Ways to Measure Educational Outcomes
So, here’s a sorta cynical question: do we have anybody working on how we can look good in these ratings? Or at least anticipating how
