Career Education Corp.'s CEO Resigns
Scott W. Steffey will step down as president and chief executive officer of Career Education Corporation, the major for-profit chain announced. Steffey took over the top post of the publicly traded...
View ArticleEducation Corp. Buys 38 Kaplan College Campuses
Education Corporation of America (ECA), a privately held for-profit chain, will buy all 38 Kaplan College campuses. Kaplan Higher Education will continue to operate its Kaplan University and eight...
View ArticleTufts Full-Time, Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Unionize
Full-time, non-tenure-track arts and sciences faculty members at Tufts University voted by a two-to-one margin to form a union affiliated with Service Employees International Union, they announced late...
View ArticleNational Association of the Deaf Sues Harvard, MIT
The National Association of the Deaf on Thursday sued Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, saying the institutions violate the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and...
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Sit-In to Protest Fossil Fuel Investments
Divest Harvard, a student group that wants Harvard University to sell off its investments in fossil fuel companies, started a sit-in Thursday outside the office of President Drew Faust. WBUR reported...
View ArticlePeking U. Gets a New, Controversial President
Peking University announced Sunday that it is replacing its president, who has been controversial, with another academic leader who has also been controversial, The South China Morning Post reported....
View ArticleNLRB Remands Another Adjunct Union Bid
The National Labor Relations Board on Friday remanded another case involving a would-be adjunct faculty union at a religious college -- Duquesne University -- back to a regional NLRB office in light of...
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3 Paintings Stolen From U. of Toronto
Canadian authorities are investigating the theft of three paintings from various buildings at the University of Toronto. Police officers say the paintings were stolen from separate locations, and that...
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Seattle Pacific Welcomes Homeless Camp for 3 Months
Seattle Pacific University, a Christian institution, has opened part of its campus for a tent city (at right) of homeless people who together move to various locations in the Seattle area. About 80...
View ArticleU. of Zurich Criticized for Work Funded by Philip Morris
Antismoking groups and some academics are calling on the University of Zurich to retract two papers it published -- without peer review -- that were financed by Philip Morris International, The...
View ArticleMissouri-Kansas City Professor in Rankings Scandal Quits
The University of Missouri at Kansas City announced Friday that Michael Song has resigned as a faculty member of the Henry W. Bloch School of Management. “We have outstanding students and excellent...
View ArticlePush to Make Freshmen Ineligible in NCAA Basketball
Several conference commissioners, based in part on a push by Pac-12 presidents and chancellors, say it is time for the National Collegiate Athletic Association to consider ending the eligibility of...
View ArticleSocrates, Plato and Education Spending
U.S. Representative Dave Brat, a Virginia Republican, is in his first term in Congress and is best known for having defeated Eric Cantor, who at the time was the House majority leader, in the...
View ArticleU. of Scranton Moves to End All Abortion Coverage
The University of Scranton's president has announced plans to end its health insurance coverage of abortion, which was covered only in cases of rape and incest and when the life of the mother was...
View ArticleCalifornia Suspends Student Aid to Heald College Chain
The California Student Aid Commission has suspended state student aid for those enrolled at the 10 California campuses of the for-profit Heald College chain, The Sacramento Bee reported. The commission...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Mapping Ice Algae
In today's Academic Minute, Ian Hawes, a University of Canterbury lecturer, discusses his work using underwater drones to map ice algae in Antarctica. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
View ArticleLegal Battle Over Japanese Garden and UCLA
An article in The Los Angeles Times profiles a legal battle between the University of California at Los Angeles and the heirs of donors who 50 years ago gave their home and its large Japanese garden to...
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Princeton Receives Bequest of $300M in Rare Books
Princeton University on Monday announced a bequest of 2,500 rare printed books and manuscripts. The value of the collection is nearly $300 million, making the bequest the largest gift in Princeton...
View ArticleCommittee Will Review UT-Austin Admissions Practices
In the wake of a report last week about presidential influence on admissions decisions at the University of Texas at Austin, the chancellor of the UT system on Monday announced the creation of a...
View ArticleLawsuit and Rally on Behalf of South Carolina State U.
Current and former students at South Carolina State University have filed a federal lawsuit against the state, accusing it of illegal discrimination against the institution and the black students it...
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