Diana Senechal Buchanan, Virginia—When Lewis Blankford entered Outcomes College two years ago, he thought he’d be an English major. “It still existed,” he told reporters. “Little did I know it was in its last hurrah. Without the hurrah, that is.” The college eliminated the department, then the courses, and finally the books, all within Blankford’s [...]

The University of West Kansas dropped initial plans to implement a creative, low-cost program aimed at decreasing epidemic levels of student cheating and binge drinking. “We loved the plan initially, but we just weren’t thinking clearly,” said director of leadership initiatives and assessment, Peggy Kolby. “We realized it’s impossible to measure ‘doing the right thing’ [...]