Better Education Options Urged for California Prisoners
A new report is pushing for access to more effective college opportunities for prisoners and formerly incarcerated people in California. In the late 1970s, all of California’s state prisons had...
View ArticleWhy Grinnell Requested an OCR Investigation of Itself
Grinnell College's decision to ask the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights to review how it handles cases of campus sexual assault was, in part, a reaction to what the college says...
View ArticleAfter Threats Against Faculty, Kalamazoo Adds Security
Kalamazoo College has heightened security after someone anonymously posted a comment in a Web discussion area that made threats against faculty members, MLive reported. The threat, which officials said...
View ArticleFlorida State Rescinds Job Offer to Fired Professor
Florida State University has rescinded a visiting professor job offer to Travis Pratt, who was fired last year by Arizona State University for a romantic relationship with a graduate student, The...
View ArticleSouthern New Hampshire U. President Takes Federal Post
Southern New Hampshire University's president, Paul LeBlanc, has taken a three-month assignment with the U.S. Department of Education. LeBlanc's appointment, which begins next week, will be as a senior...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Life’s Physical Origins
In today's Academic Minute, Jeremy England, a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses how he is using physics to unravel the beginning of life. Learn more about the...
View ArticleCoursera Apologizes for Translation Quality Tweet
Massive open online course provider Coursera this week drew the ire of some translators on Twitter after claiming "that the quality of the Coursera's Global Volunteer Translator Community... is better...
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Educause, Jisc Define I.T. Leadership Qualities
I.T. leaders at colleges and universities need to be both master communicators and visionaries, team builders and persuaders, coaches and ambassadors -- and much more, according to Educause and Jisc,...
View ArticleCheerleaders Sent Home After Fight, Caught on Video
Cheerleaders from Albany State and Tuskegee Universities were sent home this week after they got into a fight at a basketball tournament. Officials from the two universities are investigating, and...
View ArticleBritish Researchers Test 'Pee-Power' Urinal
Researchers at the University of the West of England and the humanitarian organization Oxfam are testing on the streets of Bristol a new urinal intended for refugee camps. The urinal uses urine to...
View ArticleWellesley Will Admit Transgender Applicants
Wellesley College announced Thursday that it will admit transgender women. In addition to admitting those who were born as women and consider themselves women, the college will now "consider for...
View ArticleDrexel Will Phase Out Sacramento Programs
Drexel University has decided to stick to its Philadelphia home. The university announced major plans in 2008 to build up both undergraduate and graduate programs in Sacramento. Then in 2011 the...
View ArticleRancho Santiago Faculty Decry Deal With Saudi Arabia
The Academic Senate of the Rancho Santiago Community College District has passed a resolution urging the district to end a $35 million consulting contract with the Saudi Arabian government, The Orange...
View Article"This Week": Sweet Briar's Stunning Decision
The new edition of "This Week" focuses on Sweet Briar College's surprising announcement that it will shut its doors this summer. President James F. Jones joined Inside Higher Ed's Doug Lederman and...
View Article9 Injured in Collapse of Roof at Off-Campus Party
Nine people were injured early Saturday when a garage roof on which they had been participating in a large party near California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo collapsed, The Los...
View ArticleTeaching Assistants on Strike at U. of Toronto
Teaching assistants at the University of Toronto went on strike last week, preventing some sections from being taught. The main point of disagreement is over compensation. The university and the union...
View ArticleWheaton of Illinois Reacts to K.K.K. Skit
Officials at Wheaton College in Illinois are criticizing a skit by members of the football team who dressed up in Ku Klux Klan robes as part of an off-season event in which team members do comic...
View ArticleCommunity College Enrollment and Completion Data
Nationwide community college enrollment numbers continue to decline. But student completion rates in the sector are higher than many people think. Those are the two primary findings in a new report the...
View ArticleM.I.T. Imagines Admissions Acceptances by Drone
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the admissions office is always excited about the day applicants are notified. There is extra excitement this year because that will take place on Pi Day...
View ArticleTennessee Athletics Accused of Pushing Leniency for Athletes
Senior officials in student affairs at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville accused the athletics department of intervening in student conduct investigations to encourage leniency for athletes, The...
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