Quebec Judge Rejects Police Request for Sociological Interview
A judge has ruled a taped interview of an alleged killer conducted as part of a sociology study off-limits to Montreal police, The Globe and Mailreported. Luka Magnotta, a stripper and porn actor...
View ArticleLinguistics Sees More Undergraduates, Most of Them Women
While linguistics remains a relatively small major nationally, it has been seeing significant growth nationally, from a little more than 700 bachelor's degrees awarded in 2000 to 2,200 in 2012 -- a...
View ArticleColleges Pitch Possible Experiments With Competency-Based Programs
A group of institutions that favor a competency-based approach to student learning have offered examples of the sorts of approaches they would try in a program the U.S. Education Department is...
View ArticleUdacity Redesign Embraces Founder's 'Pivot'
The massive open online course provider Udacity unveiled a redesigned website on Wednesday, highlighting the company's recent focus on corporate training. In an accompanying blog post, the founder...
View ArticleUnion Contract for Maine Community College Adjuncts
Adjuncts in the Maine Community College System, who teach about 45 percent of all courses, have won their first union contract, The Portland Press Herald reported. The contract provides for a 2 percent...
View ArticleModest Uptick for Income-Based Repayment
The number of federal direct student loan borrowers who were enrolled in an income-based repayment program rose by 20 percent in the last three months of 2013, as the Education Department launched a...
View ArticleRhodes Applicants Must Attest They Received No Help on Essays
In a new requirement, applicants to the Rhodes Scholarship must attest that they received no outside help at all in writing their personal essays, certifying at the conclusion of the essay, “I attest...
View ArticleEducation Dept. Reschedules ‘Symposium’ on Ratings
The Education Department has again rescheduled its “technical symposium” on the Obama administration’s proposed college ratings system. The new date for the daylong, public meeting is February 6,...
View ArticleWisconsin Faculty Union May Merge With K-12 Union
Wisconsin’s two major education unions are planning to merge, in light of declining memberships following 2011 anti-union legislation, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinelreported. Under the plan, the...
View ArticleArizona State Bans Fraternity That Staged Racially Themed Party
Arizona State University on Thursday revoked its recognition of a fraternity that held a racially themed party on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. While some defenders of the members of Tau Kappa...
View ArticleLayoffs and Program Cuts at Iowa Wesleyan
Facing enrollment declines, Iowa Wesleyan College plans to close about half of its academic programs and to shrink its faculty, The Gazette reported. The jobs of 22 of 52 professors and 23 of 78 staff...
View ArticleAfter a Murder, Auburn Faulted for Eliminating Campus Police
The parents of an Auburn University student who was kidnapped on campus in 2008 have filed a claim alleging that her murder could have been prevented if the institution had its own police force, which...
View ArticleBrandeis Paid Ex-President $4.9 Million This Month
Brandeis University announced Thursday that it paid Jehuda Reinharz, its former president, $4.9 million this month. The funds were due to Reinharz for deferred compensation and sabbaticals that he did...
View ArticleCASE President Announces Retirement
John Lippincott announced Thursday that he will retire as president of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education a year from now. He has been president of the association since 2004, having...
View ArticleBrown Provost Named Next President of U. of Michigan
The University of Michigan Board of Regents today named Mark S. Schlissel as the institution's next president. Schlissel is provost of Brown University. Before being named provost at Brown in 2011, he...
View ArticleWhy Didn't U. of Missouri Pursue Rape Allegation?
An investigation by ESPN has found that the University of Missouri at Columbia failed to investigate an alleged rape by one or more members of the football team. The article says that the university...
View ArticleA Week of Campus Shootings
The last week saw multiple campus shootings, some fatal. On Friday, a student at South Carolina State University was shot and killed, and authorities on Saturday arrested a man, saying that the two...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Microbes and Methane
In today’s Academic Minute, Ken Noll of the University of Connecticut reveals the process of methane production by microbes in woodland ponds. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.Ad keywords:...
View ArticleSatisfied Law Students
Landing a job right out of law school is a challenge many recent graduates experience. Despite the gradual decline in the overall employment rate for those students, 92 percent in 2007, and 85 percent...
View ArticleNortheastern Illinois Settles with Professor in Defamation Suit
Northeastern Illinois University has settled for an undisclosed amount with Loretta Capeheart, the tenured professor of justice studies who sued the institution for defamation after she said it accused...
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