Although the president-elect has said little about higher education, interviews with people in and around the incoming administration reveal the contours of some likely directions.
In a new feature, available to subscribers only, The Chronicle offers carefully curated collections of articles on important issues in higher education. So far, there are more than a dozen. Here are a couple of examples.
Higher education still falls short of providing enough opportunity to low-income students. This 44-page collection looks at some of the root causes of that phenomenon, and how colleges might better serve disadvantaged students.
The advent of online learning has made it possible to track an individual student’s path toward mastering course content. The seven articles in this guide consider how the data being collected can be tapped to improve teaching.
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