MOOCs and the honor code
In an interview for its June issue, Virginia Business interviewed University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan about Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Bacon's Rebellion reports.
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Opinion: How University of Virginia cheats great students
Last spring, Washington area students took more than 750 unnecessary Advanced Placement exams, the Washington Post reports.
University of Virginia warned after failed ouster of president
The University of Virginia was put on warning Dec. 11 by an accrediting panel that found indications the school broke governance rules in a failed attempt to oust…
UVa’s massive open online courses see high enrollment
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New players, new approaches to ranking colleges
U.S. News & World Report still might be the 800-pound gorilla of college rankings. But an electronic transcript service could give the venerable publication a run for its…
Top higher-education technology news: September 2012
Several leading universities have joined the open course movement in what is quickly becoming a campus revolution; for-profit colleges, which include some of the country’s largest online schools,…
Experts: UVa.’s Coursera partnership far from an embrace of online learning
The University of Virginia will make four of its courses available for free online in 2013 after the campus’s governing board last month cited a lack of web-based…
Big rewards, less job security for college leaders
Helicopter parents, impatient trustees, overworked professors, entitled athletics boosters and deeply partisan lawmakers with little cash to spare. It's enough to make people wonder why anyone would want…
College boards turn to business-style approaches
A popular University of Virginia president is forced to resign because board members thought she wasn't working quickly enough to address diminished funding and other challenges. Purdue University…
The real U-Va. story: The 99 percent win
In the end, it wasn't really so much about the ousted and then reinstated University of Virginia president, Teresa Sullivan, or about the governing board leader, Helen Dragas,…