"Mark Twain once remarked that reports of his death were greatly exaggerated. The liberal arts disciplines, it seems, can say the same thing... Majors are steady, enrollments are up in particular fields, and students -- and institutions -- aren’t turning their backs on disciplines that don’t have obvious utility for the workplace." Read more....

Richard A. Greenwald of Drew University offers a new model for engaged scholarship that is less territorial, meets the demands of a fluid workforce, and practical needs of students who may become "micropreneurs." Read more...

A new system of ratings of University PhD programs is out from the National Research Council. The data hunters and gatherers used two different sets of data to come up with ranges with a 90% degree of confidence, rather than award less "honest" but psychologically satisfying first, second, and third places. Read more...