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Alaska-Fairbanks Restores Display of Mississippi Flag
The University of Alaska at Fairbanks first removed the state flag of Mississippi and then restored it to a display of state flags. The flag (at right) was removed because it contains the Confederate...
View ArticleBerkeley Starts Admissions Recommendation Letters
The University of California is about to start accepting letters of recommendation from undergraduate applicants. Most highly competitive private institutions do so (and many require such letters), as...
View ArticleSpelman Discontinues Cosby Professorship
Spelman College announced Friday that it is discontinuing an endowed professorship named for Bill Cosby and his wife. "The William and Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby Endowed Professorship at Spelman...
View Article90% Drop Out of California's Unaccredited Law Schools
Nine in 10 students in California's unaccredited law schools drop out, The Los Angeles Times reported. California is among the few states with many unaccredited law schools, in large part because the...
View ArticleBritish Universities Launch Campaign to Stay in EU
The British government is planning a referendum on whether to remain in the European Union, prompting leaders of British universities to start Universities for Europe to encourage British voters to...
View Article90% Drop Out of California's Unaccredited Law Schools
Nine in 10 students in California's unaccredited law schools drop out, The Los Angeles Times reported. California is among the few states with many unaccredited law schools, in large part because the...
View ArticleBritish Universities Launch Campaign to Stay in E.U.
The British government is planning a referendum on whether to remain in the European Union, prompting leaders of British universities to start Universities for Europe to encourage British voters to...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Permafrost Meltwater Testing
In today's Academic Minute, Aron Stubbins, associate professor at the University of Georgia’s Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, discusses his travel to Siberia to conduct his experiments. Learn more...
View ArticleFederal Scrutiny of University Technical Institute Campus
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of North Carolina last week issued a subpoena to Universal Technical Institute Inc., the for-profit chain disclosed in a corporate filing. The...
View ArticleA Look at the High School Biology Teacher Workforce
Biology educators occupy nearly half (44 percent) of all high school science teaching assignments -- more than double the percentage of chemistry educators, according to a new study published in...
View ArticleMajor League Soccer is Southern New Hampshire U's Latest Partner
The Major League Soccer regular season still has another three months left, but professional soccer players may already want to consider if their off-season plans include studies at Southern New...
View ArticleU of Georgia to Hire 56 New Faculty Members, Reduce Class Size
The University of Georgia is launching a $4.4 million initiative to reduce class size, it announced Monday. The university will create more than 300 new course sections in 81 majors by fall 2016,...
View ArticleGeorge Washington U Goes Test Optional in Admissions
George Washington University on Monday announced that it is dropping a requirement that applicants submit SAT or ACT scores. Laurie Koehler, senior associate provost for enrollment management at GW,...
View ArticleColleges' Summer Programs Don't Influence Admissions
Many elite college open their campuses for various summer programs for high school students who want a taste of college life. WGBH News reported that the programs are popular and expensive ($5,500 for...
View ArticlePell for Prisoners Announcement Coming
The U.S. Department of Education is moving closer to an official announcement of an experiment to allow some prisoners to receive Pell Grants. On Monday Arne Duncan, the education secretary, came close...
View ArticlePaper on Campus Sexual Assault Called Into Question
An influential and frequently cited study on the prevalence of repeat sexual assault offenders is riddled with inconsistencies and possible errors, a new analysis of the paper asserts. The study in...
View ArticleProtest of ITT Included Just One Former Student
Higher Ed, Not Debt is a nonprofit advocacy group with a focus on for-profit colleges. It joined with the Service Employees International Union and Student Debt Action to organize a Monday protest...
View ArticleWheaton Drops Student Health Care Over Contraception Rule
More than 700 students at Wheaton College of Illinois will need to find a new health care plan on Friday, as the college will cease providing health care to students to avoid complying with a federal...
View ArticleJefferson Education Accelerator Picks First Partner
The Jefferson Education Accelerator, an effort by the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education to help efficacious educational technology companies, has found its first client: the online...
View ArticleChristian College Group Will Consider 2 Institutions' New Policies on Gay...
Many observers of Christian higher education have been wondering how the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities would respond to the move last week by two of its members -- Eastern Mennonite...
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