Grade Inflation

Western Oregon University Adopts New Grading System

Faculty and administrators at Western Oregon University are aiming to increase student retention rates and foster academic equity by changing...

Berkeley moves to ‘lock down’ students’ browsers to prevent cheating

The University of California-Berkeley is restricting professors from proctoring virtual exams to ensure students don’t cheat. Rather, the university has opted to implement a “browser lockdown” method. Campus Reform obtained a campus-wide email sent by...

Opinion Journal: Dumbing Down Colleges

Trust Busting Higher Ed

Feigning outrage that college is too expensive is a bipartisan pastime, so it’s refreshing to see a presidential candidate taking the cost-drivers seriously. Senator Marco Rubio is highlighting an obscure network of higher-ed busybodies...

Tinkering With Education

One of the most obvious fields in which making changes has been harmful is education. To be kind, in many instances the tinkering has been well intended but a failure. Survey after survey have...

The academic recession: Big bucks, little knowledge

College commencement season used to be the time for young men and women to step confidently into the world on their own. A new survey by the employment website AfterCollege finds that 83 percent...

Colleges Set to Offer Exit Tests

Next spring, seniors at about 200 U.S. colleges will take a new test that could prove more important to their future than final exams: an SAT-like assessment that aims to cut through grade-point averages...

The Ominous Rise of the Adjuncts

Review of John C. Cross and Edie Goldenberg’s Off-Track Profs: Nontenured Teachers in Higher Education. (Cambridge: MIT Press): 2009. According to the AAUP, 48 percent of faculty are part-timers, and 68 percent of all...