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Howard, Jennifer – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Colleges are not the only enterprises interested in the possibilities of free, online courses. Publishers have begun to investigate whether so-called MOOC's, or massive open online courses, can help them reach new readers and sell more books. For the moment, providers of the classes encourage professors not to require students to buy texts, in…
Descriptors: Reading Lists, Online Courses, College Students, Textbooks
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Gibbons, William C.; Petty, Adrienne; Van Nort, Sydney C. – History Teacher, 2014
In the sixties, student-led protest movements transformed university and college campuses across the United States. The 1969 takeover at the City College of New York had arguably the most far-reaching consequences of all of the protests of this period. As the flagship campus of the City University of New York system, City College had a well-known…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Urban Universities, Social Action, Reputation