Chancellor Ousted at Southern U. at Baton Rouge
The board of the Southern University System has voted, 9 to 6, not to renew the contract of James Llorens as chancellor of the Baton Rouge campus, The Baton Rouge Advocate reported. Llorens will leave...
View ArticleU.S. Selects Rules Panel for PLUS Loans, Debit Cards
The Education Department on Friday announced the negotiators who will hammer out new rules for PLUS loans, campus debit cards, state authorization for distance programs and other topics on the...
View ArticleDonation to U.Va. Will Provide More Aid, but Won't Shift Policy
A multimillion-dollar donation by a University of Virginia board member will help low-income students affected by the university's decision to scale back a popular financial aid program. U.Va. Trustee...
View ArticleUConn to Add Resources to Deal With Sexual Violence
University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst announced Friday that she is making several institutional changes to better address sexual violence on campus, two months after the U.S. Education...
View ArticleLoyola New Orleans Eliminates 30 Jobs
Loyola University New Orleans on Friday laid off 18 non-faculty employees as part of a plan to deal with a deficit caused by much lower than expected freshman enrollment in the fall, The Times-Picayune...
View ArticleCollege Football Star Says He Is Gay
In a first, a star of big-time college football has come out. Michael Sam, who won numerous awards as a defensive linesman for the University of Missouri at Columbia, on Sunday told The New York Times...
View ArticleHarvard Tax Mistake Is Expensive for Its Employees
Incorrect tax reporting by Harvard University -- suggesting that employees earned millions more than they really did -- has cost those employees considerable sums in overpaid taxes, The Boston Globe...
View ArticleReports: U. of Texas System Chancellor Will Step Down
Newspapers in Texas are reporting that Francisco Cigarroa will today announce that he is stepping down as chancellor of the University of Texas System. A surgeon and a medical professor before rising...
View ArticleWho Defaults and Why?
A new study (abstract available here) from the National Bureau of Economic Research tracks 10 year student loan default rates for those who earned bachelor's degrees in 1993. The study warns against...
View ArticleChinese Dissident's Warning for American Higher Ed
Xia Yeliang, whose firing by Peking University set off an international uproar, is starting today at the Cato Institute, a think tank, and he has cautions for American universities about their ties...
View ArticleSecurity Threat Shutters DeVry Campuses in Chicago
DeVry Inc. shut all 13 of its Chicago-area DeVry University and Chamberlain College of Nursing campuses Monday, citing an emailed threat that was deemed a "potential security issue," The Chicago...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Jupiter's Red Spot
In today’s Academic Minute, Philip Marcus of the University of California at Berkeley explains the persistence of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.Ad keywords: faculty
View ArticlePerry Will Have Some Say About Next U. of Texas Chancellor
The University of Texas System's board expects to spend four to six months finding a new chancellor to replace Francisco Cigarroa, who announced Monday he would step down after his successor is named....
View ArticleWayne State Defends Dean Who Sparked Professor Resignation
Wayne State University is standing by Farshad Fotouhi, dean of the College of Engineering, whom faculty members have accused of lacking integrity and, last week, sparked the resignation of a longtime...
View ArticleLittle Interest in E-Textbooks Among U. of Iowa Students
An electronic textbook pilot has, once again, reported lukewarm interest among college students -- this time at the University of Iowa. Sponsored by Educause and Internet2, the fall 2012 pilot involved...
View ArticleTesting Fraud Exposed in Britain; ETS Exams Suspended
Britain's home office has suspended the administration of English language tests run by the Princeton, N.J.-based Educational Testing Service after the BBC news program, "Panorama," uncovered...
View ArticleRubio Calls for 'Swift' Overhaul of Accreditation
Two prominent Republican Senators on Monday continued to push for an overhaul of U.S. accreditation of colleges, seeking to open up federal student aid to non-traditional forms of higher education as a...
View ArticleUCLA, USC Investigate Racist, Sexist Fliers
Officials at the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Southern California are identifying racist and sexist fliers sent to Asian-American organizations on the two campuses, The...
View ArticleIsraeli University Leaders Thank Americans Who Oppose Boycott
The presidents of Israel's universities have issued a joint letter to the presidents of American colleges and universities that have opposed the boycott of Israeli universities endorsed by the American...
View ArticleGRE Sees Big Increase in Test-Taking in India
GRE volume was up about 5 percent in the United States in 2013, and by larger percentages in some other countries. Among all countries outside the United States, GRE test-taking was up 30 percent, and...
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