In this installment of NEJHE's New Directions for Higher Education series, Philip DiSalvio, dean of the College of Advancing & Professional Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, interviews Stephen Trachtenberg, president emeritus & University Professor of Public Service at George Washington University.
NEJHE launched the series in 2013 to examine emerging issues, trends a...
The University of Massachusetts Amherst will offer formal, three-year bachelors degree programs in selected academic disciplines. Beginning next fall, first-year students seeking majors in Economics, Music and Sociology can elect to travel a shortened route to their diplomas; other programs (e.g. Linguistics, Dance and Spanish) could be added to this pilot program in the future.UMass Amherst empha...
The number of students considering a three-year college degree continues to rise, along with tuition prices and a rush by some students and families to get into the money-making world.But just as colleges and universities feel pressure to reduce the time it takes to earn a degree, Carol Geary Schneider, president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, suggests the trend ...