Higher Ed. News

• Author discusses his new book, "Administratively Adrift"
  Image: The title of Administratively Adrift: Overcoming Institutional Barriers for College Student Success (Cambridge University Press) sounds a bit like that of Academically Adrift, a 2011 book that …
• Employee retires after 70 years
  Image: For decades, Jewel Bell was a staple of King University, a small Christian college in Bristol, Tenn. She was a confidante for students and later a gatekeeper to the president’s office. She was …
• University of Minnesota offers Ojibwe and Dakota housing
  Image: Dustin Morrow, a student earning his master’s degree in linguistics at the University of Minnesota, remembers the first time he heard someone casually speaking Ojibwe. He was 25 years old and a …
• The push for more active learning spaces on campus
  Image: Active learning, or instructional methods that actively engage students in their own learning, is on the rise. So, too, are physical spaces dedicated to this kind of teaching. These are positiv …
• New presidents or provosts: American College Blackfeet Medgar Evers Paul Smith's
  Antoinette A. Coleman, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University System of Maryland, has been selected as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Medgar Evers …