Over the past few decades, higher education has been vastly transformed by online course offerings and myriad changes driven by technological advances and innovation. The old model of straight lectures and recitations to courses large and small has been challenged by new research as well. This documentary from American RadioWorks looks at different educators and institutions as they think about...

The College Board designs, administers and scores the SAT exam, which is widely used for college admissions in the United States. On this website, the College Board offers a few resources to help students prepare for the test. The resources include a selection of math, critical reading, and writing practice questions, a review of the SAT essay, and an Official SAT Practice Test. The practice test...

College leaders hope to renew debate on a lower drinking age http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-drinking20-2008aug20,0,1651220.story ABC News: Answer to Underage Drinking: Make It Legal http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=5616070&page=1 MADD: Some University Presidents Shirk Responsibility to Protect Students from Dangers of Underage...

Over half of all students taking classes at the college level do so at a community college. Many policy-makers, pundits, and politicians are wondering how to best improve these key educational institutions. This 40-page report released in April 2012 takes a look at the current shortcomings of American community colleges, along with offering some suggestions about the way forward. The report was...

What is the state of America's universities? That is a vast question, and it was posed to the National Academies by the U.S. Congress. Specifically, Congress asked the National Academies to assess the competitive position of America's research universities over the coming decades. The results of the Academies' findings are in this 227-page report issued in 2012. Visitors to the site can download...

Located in tranquil Winter Park, Florida, Rollins College is a liberal arts institution founded in 1885. A team of archivists and digital media specialists at their library has worked to create this clutch of digital collections designed to tell the story of their institution, and by extension, the story of Florida and American colleges. There are six smaller collections within this main archive,...

The College of William & Mary is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States, and they have a rich history interwoven with the history of the U.S. and the state of Virginia. Recently, they have begun adding a wide range of institutional documents to their digital archive. This section of the site features The Colonial Echo, which has served as the student yearbook of the...

As this digital archive of documents related to the history of the University of Wisconsin suggests, "...the history of the University of Wisconsin is far too colorful and texture-rich to be told in a single document." Fortunately for those with an interest in the University's long history, this special collection of historical documents developed by the University's Digital Content Group provides...

For good or ill, the landscape of higher education throughout the United States is changing rapidly, and the University Business website is a good way to keep in touch with the related transformations. Visitors to the site can read the contents of the current issue, which features articles on a myriad of subjects ranging from graduate student unions to new distance education technology, or browse...