Bob Jones Board President Quits Amid Conflict With President
Last week, Bob Jones University president Steve Pettit announced his resignation. He will leave office at the end of the academic year in May. His resignation came only a few months after the board...
View ArticleSan Francisco State Investigates Professor for Showing Image of Muhammad
San Francisco State University is investigating a professor, Maziar Behrooz, for showing an image of the prophet Muhammad in a course last fall on the history of Islam, according to the Foundation for...
View ArticleBirmingham-Southern Board Votes to Remain Open
Following months of closure talks related to ongoing financial issues, the Board of Trustees at Birmingham-Southern College voted unanimously Wednesday to remain open, AL.com reported.The private...
View ArticleEastern Illinois U Faculty, Advisers Begin Strike
Faculty members and academic support professionals began striking Thursday at another public Illinois university, after fellow faculty walked out at Chicago State University Monday.The newly striking...
View ArticleAnti-CRT Measures Exploded Last Year, Report Finds
Lawmakers across the country tried to enact 563 measures to restrict the teaching of “critical race theory” from 2021 to 2022, according to a new report from the University of California, Los Angeles,...
View ArticleAmerican U Students Petition for Narcan After Overdose
Hundreds of American University students and alumni have signed a petition demanding that Narcan, a brand of naloxone, be made available at all dormitories on campus, WUSA9 News reported.The petition...
View ArticleAn AI Approach to Healthier Eating: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute: Kimia Ghobadi, a John C. Malone Assistant Professor in the department of civil and systems engineering at Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering,...
View ArticleAmerican U Students Petition for Narcan After Overdose
Hundreds of American University students and alumni have signed a petition demanding that Narcan, a brand of naloxone, by made available at all dormitories on campus, WUSA9 News reported.The petition...
View ArticleSyracuse Grad Workers Unionize
Syracuse University graduate student workers have successfully unionized.Syracuse Graduate Employees United, affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, said in a news release that the...
View ArticleFIU Faculty Senate Votes No Confidence in Chair Over Reforms
The Faculty Senate at Florida International University narrowly voted no confidence in chairwoman Deanne Butchey on Tuesday due to what members argue is a failure to push back on sweeping higher...
View ArticleColumbia Faculty Split on Center in Tel Aviv
Columbia University announced plans to open a center in Tel Aviv, and faculty members have split on the idea, The New York Times reported.The center was announced Monday. It will not host...
View ArticleTrocaire College to Acquire Medaille University
Two small Catholic institutions in New York will soon become one, with Trocaire College set to purchase Medaille University, according to WGRZ, an NBC affiliate based in Buffalo.The two colleges have...
View ArticleOhio Lawmaker Lied About MIT Degree
Republican lawmaker Dave Dobos has stepped down as vice chair of the Ohio House Higher Education Committee after Cleveland.com revealed he lied about earning a degree from the Massachusetts Institute...
View ArticleColleges Appeal Borrower-Defense Settlement to Supreme Court
After a federal appeals court denied a bid from some colleges to stop a settlement from moving forward in a class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education regarding stalled borrower...
View ArticleDrug-Delivery Technology for Psychiatric Treatments: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute: Andrew Neff, visiting assistant professor of psychology at Oxford College of Emory University, explores how new methods of drug delivery could improve psychiatric...
View ArticleColumbia Faculty Split on Center in Tel Aviv
Columbia University announced plans to open a center in Tel Aviv, and faculty have split on the idea, The New York Times reported.The center was announced on Monday. It will not host undergraduates....
View ArticleArizona Professor Receives Death Threat
Faculty members at the University of Arizona learned Monday that one of them received a death threat in the last week, Tucson.com reported.“In the past week one of our outspoken senators received a...
View Article2U Sues Education Department Over Outsourcing Guidance
The online program management firm 2U sued the U.S. Education Department in federal court Tuesday over guidance it issued in February governing the relationships between colleges and third parties that...
View ArticleA TikTok Video With 1 Million Views Would Cancel the Final
Matthew Prince, a public relations executive at Taco Bell who teaches at Chapman University, had a challenge for 80 students. The New York Times reported that he said if anyone in the class could...
View Article16 Institutions Unite to Help Rural Students Attend College
Sixteen U.S. colleges and universities have teamed up in a new effort to help students from rural and small communities attain an undergraduate degree.The Small Town and Rural Students (STARS) College...
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