MOOCs and Open Educational Resources: Research on Access, Completion, and Quality
Massive open online courses promised to democratize higher education. Research on who actually uses MOOCs and whether they improve access challenges e...
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First Generation College Students: What Institutions Owe Them
First generation students navigate college without inherited knowledge of how it works. Institutions that treat this as an individual student's p...
Alcohol on College Campuses: What Research Shows About Culture, Risk, and Prevention
College drinking is pervasive and associated with serious harms. Research on why students drink, what reduces harmful use, and what prevention approac...
The Student Debt Crisis: How We Got Here and What Policy Options Exist
Student debt in the United States has exceeded 1.7 trillion dollars. Understanding how the system produced this outcome is essential for evaluating re...
Tenure and Academic Freedom: What These Protections Do and Why They Matter
Academic tenure is one of higher education's most distinctive and contested institutions. Understanding what it protects and what it costs is ess...
Online Learning in Higher Education: Evidence, Growth, and Quality Questions
Online learning has grown dramatically in higher education. The evidence on its effectiveness is nuanced and depends heavily on course design, student...
Accreditation in Higher Education: What It Does and Why It Is Contested
Accreditation is the primary quality assurance mechanism in American higher education, but it has faced growing criticism from multiple directions. Un...
Community Colleges: The Undervalued Engine of Social Mobility
Community colleges serve the most diverse and economically challenged student populations in American higher education, with a fraction of the per st...