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LAST JUNE, the U.S. Department of Education appointed its first chief economist. Jordan Matsudaira and his 11-person team have spent the past 18 months digging through vast sets of data. [...]

SPEND A little time inside the sprawling former textile mill that houses the key business and academic arms of Southern New Hampshire University's online college, and one thing becomes abundantly [...]

NOT EVERY college campus features a full-fledged library, a student union, or residence halls. But when a campus has no classrooms, is it really a campus? For some, the answer [...]

At Columbia college, in Missouri, a once-smelly locker room for the soccer team has been converted into a futuristic-looking space for a promising new group of competitors: students who play [...]

CANDACE M. THILLE helped kick-start the move to bring big data to college teaching. She founded the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University and has won millions of dollars [...]

THE IDEA of students graduating from college with just a diploma--a single academic credential--could soon seem downright quaint. At some institutions, it already is. Community colleges in North Carolina encourage [...]

GOODBYE to traditional class lectures, in-person faculty office hours, and the college visit. How about a fond farewell to inflexible academic calendars, face-to-face faculty meetings filled with pontification, and place-based [...]

This crisis is a call to action. Those who don't heed that call may end up sitting ducks. COLLEGES BY THE DOZEN are canceling in-person classes and scrambling to create [...]

SINCE MID-AUGUST, I've been reporting in San Francisco, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Woodstock, Vt., Philadelphia, Chicago, and of course D.C. Here are a few notes on the interesting things I heard while [...]

A new Chronicle Intelligence report, 'The Innovation Imperative: The Buzz, the Barriers, and What Real Change Looks Like,' goes beyond the hype to take a look at real work and [...]

PEOPLE looking for good news in the data released last month by the American Talent Initiative can certainly find some in the increase in the number of low-income students at [...]

DID THAT PREDICTION about jobs requiring education beyond high school by 2020 pan out? 'By the year 2020, nearly two-thirds of all jobs will require postsecondary education and training.' Anyone [...]

Argosy moves beyond psychology to education, business law, and possibly 2-year colleges FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES didn't have much academic respectabilty when Michael C. Markovitz entered the education business 23 year ago. [...]

Christian Picciolini spent his teens and early 20s handing out hate literature at punk-rock concerts, chanting the American neo-Nazi creed at rallies, and beating up black kids in his suburban [...]

In the span of a few months, two top officials at the higher-education arm of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have left or announced plans to depart. Since Gates [...]

FIVE YEARS ago, students and faculty members at the Stanford University d.school released 'Stanford 2025,' a futuristic vision for higher education. Part thought experiment, part design exercise, 'Stanford 2025' added [...]

TECH-SKILLS BOOT camps are on the march. General Assembly, a company that teaches tech skills, is teaming up with an online-program-management company called Noodle Partners to develop boot camps with [...]

TEXTBOOK NEWS is everywhere these days. In May, Cengage and McGraw-Hill said they would merge, and Wiley bought Knewton. And in June the State University of New York announced a [...]

McGraw-Hill and Cengage, two of the country's three biggest textbook publishers, announced this month that they would merge. The deal, which some in the publishing industry called unsurprising given the [...]

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY is creating a for-profit venture to promote its online programs to big employers. The venture will be majority-owned by the TPG Rise Fund, a $2.1-billion private-equity fund [...]

IF you think 'college-admissions test' when you hear ACT, think again. Fewer students took ACT's college-admissions test in 2018 than in the previous year. That's the kind of news that [...]

'THE best freshman year is a gap year.' That was the headline on a commentary piece The Chronicle ran a few months ago. It was co-written by the founder and [...]

THE COLLEGE textbook--or at least the textbook as we knew it--is on the road to extinction. But that road could be a long one. Three overlapping forces are at play: [...]

THERE'S nothing like the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges & Universities: The rich mix of professors, deans, and provosts among the 1,800-plus attendees. The passionate conversations about [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk Kim Thanos goes to work each day with one not-so-modest goal: 'Take $1 billion out of the textbook industry and give it back to students.' And if [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk The buds of a recovery in state and local support for higher education that appeared in 2013 blossomed even more in the 2014 fiscal year, a new [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk San Francisco -- Paul Freedman's last big venture in higher education did not end well. (http://chronicle.com/article/The-Humbling-of-a-Would-Be/142649/) But apparently he rebounds fast. Less than two years after being [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk, Lance Lambert, and Beckie Supiano Public flagship universities appear to have become less affordable over the past five years to the very people they were created to [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk Washington -- The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday released the names of the more than 550 colleges required to operate under more restrictive conditions and extra [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk Leadership in higher education today requires a delicate balance: a posture that prevents both knee-jerk reactions to the latest trend and flat-footed reluctance to go after real [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk and Joshua Hatch Washington -- By one measure at least, the 2012-13 academic year was a healthier year financially for private colleges than 2011-12 was. Fewer degree-granting [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk New York City -- The idea of dangling big prize money for an innovative achievement was popularized in aviation-think Charles Lindbergh chasing the $25,000 Orteig Prize with [...]

NEW YORK RUNNING one of the world's most important cultural institutions isn't all that different from running a college, especially if you think of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as [...]

With a surprise deal to acquire the for-profit Kaplan University, announced late last month, Purdue University has leapfrogged into the thick of the competitive online-education market. Purdue plans to oversee [...]

Washington For the want of double spacing in a small section of a 65-page grant application, 109 low-income high-school students will be cut off from a program at Wittenberg University [...]

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. Houston Breedlove had several reasons for enrolling in the coding boot camp that Trilogy Education Services now runs in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at [...]

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the federal agency that many Republicans, financial institutions, and for-profit colleges love to hate. Just under seven years old, the bureau has already left [...]